Ministry of agriculture of China has excluded the dogs from the draft list of animals whose meat can be eaten
ChinaImages / DepositPhotos According to estimates by the Hong Kong animal protection group Animals Asia, every year in China kill and eat about 10 million dogs and four million cats
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the Ministry of agriculture of China has excluded the dogs from the draft list of animals whose meat can be eaten. Since January the country has a ban on wildlife trade, a new list will enter into force after its abolition. Special attention animal advocates attracted the delisting of dogs, the newspaper “Kommersant”.
“With the development of human civilization and in terms of public concern about the protection of animals dogs have evolved from traditional livestock to pet, the draft States. Usually they are no longer treated as livestock in the rest of the world. It is not recommended to include them in the listOK livestock or poultry in China.”
the Innovation was a reaction to the spread of coronavirus, the original hearth which was assumed was the market in Wuhan where trading of wild animals.
the List is not final. Up to 8 may be accepted public comments to the draft.
the list included conventional animals bred for human consumption, including cows, chickens, pigs, sheep, etc. the Number of animals included in the category of “special cattle”, which were deer, ostrich, alpacas, game birds, two foxes and some other animals that can be grown with the purpose of human consumption.
the Appearance of the document, as writes the edition, has accelerated the suspicion that the outbreak COVID-19 occurred because of the novel coronavirus, transmitted from wild animals to humans.
April 2, the city government of Shenzhen in southern China was first forbidden to eat the meat of dogs and cats.
According to estimates by the Hong Kong animal protection group Animals Asia, every year in China kill and eat about 10 million dogs and four million cats.
