Hundreds of Chinese cats destined for cooking pot saved

November 02, 2012 17:00

Chinese police has reportedly intercepted a lorry carrying 500 cats destined for the cooking pot. There has been extra security on China's roads ahead of next week''s once-in-a-decade leadership change. Police officers in the city of Xuzhou pulled over the lorry when they noticed it had out-of-town license plates.

According to the Telegraph, the lorry was carrying dozens of rusty iron cages filled with cats. In recent years, the appetite for cat meat in the south of China has created a supply chain that reaches across the country, the paper said. According to the paper, a notorious Cantonese dish is "Tiger and Dragon Locked in Battle", a hot pot of cat and snake meat.

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