Man Kills Cats and Sells Them as 'Rabbit Meat'

2016/11/30

Chen Xiaoli

Program Code: 0909346161121012 Source: Miaopai

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A Chengdu man who faked himself as a "cat lover" turned out to have killed cats and sell them as "rabbit meat."

The man, Huang Pingfu, appeared to have rescued stray cats and raised more than 20 expensive breeds in his 50-square-meter home. He told people who visited them that "his wife and himself treated the cats like their children." However, the truth behind was extremely brutal.

An undercover investigation carried out by Chengdu Business Daily since September revealed that Huang killed over 100 cats every day for a daily profit of 2,000-3,000 yuan. He has been trafficking cats for more than 20 years and has turned it into a lucrative business.

Huang bought the cats from mongers who usually stole them from villages, streets and communities at a price of 28 yuan per cat. Some expensive breeds would be picked out as pet.

Huang hired people to kill cats in a hidden house at Banzhuyuan Town, Xindu District. The cats would be drowned before being skinned and then kept in icehouse.

The carcasses would later be sold to meat wholesalers and restaurants as rabbits, and as the investigation revealed, a wholesaler in Baijia Farmers’ Market that sells wild animal meat dried and smoked the cat meat and sold to customers as masked palm civet.

Other cats kept alive were shipped to South China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and sold at a wholesale price of 32 yuan per cat.

"We often eat cat meat -- as cold dish or stir-fried. It is delicious," Huang told the undercover reporter.

On November 22, local authorities teamed up and seized around 1 ton of live and frozen cats at three different places that are used as slaughterhouse, icehouse and warehouse.

According to the report, live cats rescued from the sites have been transferred to local animal shelters.

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