I can't believe people can just just say 'forget the animals', yes, humans are suffering too and that is not to be dismissed, but animals suffer at the hands of cruel or ignorant people and they can do very little about it. Unfortunately evolution does not move fast enough for them to develop measures to avoid us.

Animal cruelty happens all over the world, not just china, but some places have tried to make any suffering to animals as humane as possible. I think the reason why people target china and the far east may be due to their traditions and beliefs. The tiger is endangered because of its penis, which is supposed to be something like an aprodisiac and is very valuable. Different cultures tend to view animals in a different light, and some cultures do not care if an animal goes extinct or whether it suffers when it is killed if it makes good money. I dont think a country or culture can be blamed though, i think individuals due to greed or a lack of education are probably more to blame, and there are people like this in england. Luckily england has some good laws in place which most people tend to follow, and animals which have been bred as food are humanely slaughtered and welfare societies are constantly attempting to improve conditions for the animals.

It sad to think people do not care about these creatures being in pain as long as it tastes nice. I am not a vegetarian, we were not born vegetarians and i would struggle to stay alive myself if i did not eat animals, but i am always careful about what and where i buy my food from. I could never knowingly eat an animal which had been suffering for hours and then has a painful death. Hopefully in the future peoples views will change and less effort would need to go towards preventing such brutal deaths for these animals. Or maybe global warming will just wipe us out and the earth can start again with something more pleasent

Killing cats in China is like getting rid of alligators here because over there they view cats as harmful. Maybe a gator is a bad example but people are afraid of them over here because of some sort of danger. China is not the only country to kill fish either, we kill fish all the time, maybe not in front of people but China may do this to show how fresh they are. They have to kill the animal some how before it is eaten. They eat dogs over there I believe which to them maybe customary like us eating deer or cow. Different traditions and cultures view differently upon acts of killing animals. I think since many people keep animals for pets here, to see them eaten as food somewhere else seems cruel, but to them it is an every day occurrence.

IT IS TOO CRUEL!!
Animal Cruelty In China!

The thing they do in china and everywhere is extremely wrong I think if they had to kill the animals they could at least put them down thn skin them or whatever. But I think shoving them in cages where thy can't move and boiling the animlas alive is too far. And even if the dog or cat survives that they gt skinned alive and even then they survive that. You would think that they would kill them humanely but no they couldn't give a crap! in my opinion china should even just consider getting an animal cruelty law. The government knows that people do these things but they just turn the other cheek.

-reply by Heaffa

Replying to Plenoptic
I think it is wrong how that they eat cats and dogs but how you said it could be like an everyday occurance to them is just wrong. How could you say that it is okay how they keep them so tightly together in cages and torture them alive. Yea we eat animals here but at least they are put down without feeling a thing. And dogs are supposed to be mans best friend while cats are also our friends.