In a step to end - and hopefully ban - the #cat meat trade in #Vietnam, a #slaughterhouse that usually drowns up to 300 #cats a month will be shutting down. Twenty cats and #kittens remaining in the facility that were destined to be drowned will be given a second chance at life and rehomed. Thanks to the work of #HumaneSocietyInternational, the owner of the slaughterhouse plans to set up a grocery store and said he is glad that he will be leaving this cruel business behind him.
An estimated one million cats a year are killed for meat in Vietnam, all are stolen pets and strays snatched from the streets (no cats are farmed in Vietnam). Traders use food baits to lure the cats into homemade spring-loaded snares. Polls show that an astonishing 87% of people have either had a pet stolen or have an acquaintance whose pet has been stolen. Further, a recent Nielsen opinion poll (Oct. 2023) commissioned by #HSI shows that cat meat is consumed by a relative minority of the Vietnamese population (21%) with the majority (71%) in favour of a ban on both cat meat consumption and trade.