Beijing's Cat Death Camps

"Animals are treated dreadfully in Chinese farms, laboratories, zoos and elsewhere. There are grim factories where thousands of live bears in tiny cages are tapped for medicinal bile. At safari parks, live sheep and poultry are fed to lions as spectators cheer. At farms and in slaughterhouses, animals are killed with little concern for their suffering."

So we're quite saddened to learn from the Daily Mail that the authoritarian government of China has decided to "clean up" Beijing of cats for the Olympics, as it previously did with dogs, and that it does it in a pretty disgusting way. To be clear, we're not trying to minimize the other evil things that have been done by the Chinese government, we just want to add this to the list.

Hundreds of cats a day are being rounded and crammed into cages so small they cannot even turn around.

Then they are trucked to what animal welfare groups describe as death camps on the edges of the city. [...]