Vu Quang Nguyen, Program Manager of Companion Animals for HSI Vietnam, and Nicole Jaworski, carry cats out of the slaughterhouse. Chau Doan/AP Images for HSI
A Vietnamese restaurant that drowned up to 300 cats a month has shut. Its owner apologized for slaughtering pets.
By Grace Dean,
22 hours ago
[source:https://www.newsbreak.com/news/3278401569842-a-vietnamese-restaurant-that-drowned-up-to-300-cats-a-month-has-shut-its-owner-apologized-for-slaughtering-pets]
Chau Doan/AP Images for HSI
- A restaurant in Thái Nguyên, Vietnam, that killed up to 300 cats a month has shut down.
- Its owner said he knew some were people’s pets but that he needed the money.
- The owner got a grant from Humane Society International to close the restaurant.
A Vietnamese restaurant that drowned up to 300 cats a month to feed diners has closed down.
Pham Quoc Doanh, the owner of Gia Bảo in Thái Nguyên, northeastern Vietnam, told Metro that he knew some were people’s pets but that he didn’t have a choice because he needed the money.
Doanh said that he added cat meat to the restaurant’s menu to make it more profitable because he was struggling to support his family, noting that there were no other restaurants nearby selling the meat.
Doanh drowned the cats individually in a bucket, Metro reported. “I felt sorry for them when I saw them suffering during slaughtering,” he said.
“When I think of all the thousands of cats I’ve slaughtered and served up here over the years, it’s upsetting,” Doanh said in a press release published by animal-welfare organization Human Society International. “Cat theft is so common in Vietnam that I know many of the cats sold here were someone’s loved family companion, and I feel very sorry about that.”
In 2022, HSI started a program offering financial incentives to Vietnamese restaurants if they stop selling cat and dog meat and give the animals up for adoption. Doanh was given a one-time grant in exchange for closing his restaurant and giving the animals away.
He now plans to open a grocery instead, HSI said.
‘Now that I’ve closed my cat-slaughter business, I feel more peaceful in my mind and feel confident and happy about my future without killing any more animals,’ Doanh told Metro.
The animal-welfare organizations Four Paws and Change For Animals Foundation claimed in a 2020 report that more than 1 million stray and pet cats are killed in Vietnam every year for their meat.
“Some restaurants purchase the animals directly from cat thieves and slaughter them themselves on their premises, but most operate with wholesalers and slaughterhouses,” Dr. Katherine Polak, veterinarian and Head of Four Paws Stray Animal Care in Southeast Asia, said in a press release . The cats are most commonly drowned, but in some cases are bludgeoned to death, boiled alive, or electrocuted, according to the report.
“At the wholesalers, we discovered many cats with collars — a clear sign that they were pets,” Polak said.
HSI says its progam in Vietnam has also helped close down two dog restaurants in Thái Nguyên.)
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The Asian race lacks our sense of guilt regarding cruelty to animals. The Chinese actually cook dogs while they are alive. If one of us did that his reputation would be ruined. The Jews also, like the Asians, lack our compassion for animals. When an animal is butchered for its meat, it has to be bled while its heart is beating or else the meat will contain too much blood and will taste bad. We stun a meat-animal when we bleed it. The Jews do not stun the animal as it is bled.
Yes. I have blogged several times about this: https://johndenugent.com/petition-against-chinese-dog-torture-at-infamous-yulin-dog-meat-festival/
However, I had a bad experience in 2006 in racially white Germany in this regard, in a delightful small town near Nuremberg, where I was editing videos for a patriot. Every Tuesday morning, I would hear a horrible din. There was a butcher next door and he apparently slaughtered his pigs kosher-style, slitting their throats and hanging them up by their feet. Because the blood thereby kept running downward to their brains, they stayed conscious the whole time they were dying- – and squealing away, which is the way pigs wail — in horror and pain. 🙁
And these industrial farms (mostly jew-owned) for chickens, swine and cattle are totally inhumane. They cannot even move. We all must die, but I want animals to have a decent life and get out in the fresh air and have some fun until that day.