2008 South China animal consumption incidents

In 2008, numerous incidents occurred in the People's Republic of China, mostly in southern China's Guangdong region, over the selling of dog and cat meat. Both stray and domestic animals were taken to butcher shops in large quantities. Some pet owners even worried that their pets would be stolen to be sold for profit.
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A story was run in the Southern Metropolis Daily that said about 1,000 cats were transported to Guangdong daily. About 5,000 cats were sent via shipments from Nanjing to Guangzhou. Other places such as Shanghai and Hangzhou also rounded up cats to be shipped. According to the Chengdu Business Daily, people in Guangdong ate 10,000 cats a day. They were then skinned and deceptively sold as expensive lamb meat for profit.
The protesters noted that a virus that caused Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is suspected to have been spread to humans by civets. In 2004, Guangdong supposedly banned the raising, selling, killing and eating of civets.

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