By Michele Brown | March 15, 2016
Vietnam does not have animal cruelty laws but the use of cats for human consumption has been banned since February 18, 1998, by the then Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic Of Vietnam, Nguyễn Công Tạn. Unfortunately this law is blatantly ignored and not enforced because too many officials enjoy eating cat meat for good luck. The photograph above was taken at L 179 Flower Shop, the Square, Hanoi.
Cats suffer quite badly in many dog and cat eating countries because they are falsely viewed as suspicious and evil, and consequently feared my many people. Remarkably, the same cat which is feared is also seen as a good luck charm if eaten at the start of each month. It is also falsely believed that eating the spine of a cat each month can pass on the cat’s agility to the person eating it.
Vietnamese cat restaurants encourage diners to choose which live cat they want to eat – to guarantee freshness. The customer watches the cat of their choice be hit on the head with a hammer – not to kill it, just to quieten it down – then the live cat is dropped into boiling water and boiled alive in front of the excited customer. When the frantic flailing, clawing and scratching stops, the cat is removed and skinned – even if it is still alive, then chopped up for cat meat soup, cooked and served. Bon Appéti
Prior to 1998 so many cats were killed and eaten in Vietnam that rats took over farmer’s crops in plague proportions. Serious illness and disease caused deaths among people and catastrophic damage was done to farmer’s crops. Some farming areas reported entire crops ruined by rat plagues!
The law is titled: Urgent Measures Of Rat Eradication For Crop Protection.
Section 6: Ministry of Commerce, General Administration of Customs in collaboration with the Ministry of Home Affairs to closely manage the export of all kinds of implementation of rat eradication locally, organize and mobilize all the resources to kill the rats, take measures to encourage and support specific to send documents to steer the concerned sectors in the province to revoke the business license, close right away all the cat meat restaurants (little tiger), to seriously handle the cat traders and smugglers, cat trading across borders, natural enemies of rats and strict measures for violations of hunting the predators of rats for export and food, especially urgent now is the illegal smuggling, trafficking and transporting cats across the border, and for cat meat restaurants.
For many years Hanoi was seen as the dog meat capital and Ho Chi Minh City [Saigon], as the cat meat capital. In 2016 both major cities are mixing and matching both dog and cat meat, which is bad news for dogs and cats because it means the number of animals being consumed is rising, not falling. This may be connected with Vietnam’s growing tourist population.
Fight Dog Meat receives too many reports of tourists vacationing in dog and cat eating countries and using the lame excuse “when in Rome” to justify them self eating dogs and cats.
Fight Dog Meat will continue to bring you reports from dog and cat meat countries and the wonderful work their rescuers are doing despite no animal protection laws. Turning away or sitting quietly does not end the trade. We’ll keep exposing what is taking place to these animals. We’re helping local volunteers have a louder voice on a world platform. Ultimately it’s the voice of the country’s own people whom their government will eventually be forced to listen to, for positive change for animals.
Thank you for reading,
Michele Brown
Founder,
Fight Dog Meat.
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Please, stop this!!!
This is disgusting ! These are puppies and kittens !!!! They are babies
Dont eat this
This is so cruwl, this has to stop!
Please STOP this!
This is absolutely horrendous! I cannot understand how any one can think this is acceptable behaviour
Animal abusers ????????????????????????
non mangiare
C’est absolument abject!
Cela doit stopper !
Ce sont des atrocités !
Nous devons les sauver !
How incredibly barbaric. These poor creatures.
This has just GOT to STOP……………………..NOW How incredibly savage and barbaric.
No words!!
Total horror! This is barbaric and only scum can do this to inoucent animals. This has to stop!
Stop dog meat and cat meat abuse, please!
Awful
Animals are sentient beings and deserve to live not to be tortured, killed and eaten!
This is horrific. Needs to be stopped. It’s inhuman. This race of people is disgusting!!!
It is not good luck in fact you are creating bad karma which will catch up with you eventually. It also extremely cruel and inhumane to inflict so much pain and suffering on another living creature. Please enforce the law against this practice.
Time to take animal rights and Welfare seriously. Those sweet beautiful cats and dogs. What a crime against nature. What a disgusting Injustice. Makes me ill looking at these photos. Time for a new regime of wisdom ( as this lacks the words of the magnitude of stupidity and ignorance), MORAL AND ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITY, HUMANITY, COMPASSION, AND JUSTICE. What a disgusting group of barbaric people. And this is what you’re known for and by. Utter gross ignorance.
STOP IT NOW AND FOREVER! ! YOU MUST SHAME TO DO THIS ! !
Please stop
STOP!!!!!!
Sono dei MOSTRI!!!
Monstrueux barbare et horrible
How can you cook and eat any alive animal? This is cruwel and so sick!
Please stop this cruelty.
People doing such a thing is not a human but a evil beast !!!
Please stop this!
Mercy and compassion for the animals…
Stop meat the babys please stop stop barbars its not ok brutal sik the dog and cat you are shit human ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
This is unacceptable crime …we r against its ……this inhuman bastards destroying this beautiful coexisting world of all living being
Stop this, this is inhuman.
I’m so saddened and sickened . These are human beings? Evil people.
Pleace stop it!
WHY.
stopp eating dogs
PURE EVIL !!!
Stop NOW! Evil people. The works is watching and WE WILL stop you!
this is barbaric pure evil.burning and skinned alive?they do feel pain you know.im disgusted and heartbroken ban this now.shame on you the world is watching?karma will get you big time
Crime
Don’t these people have any heart or compassion, how can they not be aware of the agony and fear they are causing these poor creatures. I really believe that whatever makes us human these people are lacking it and are not of this earth.
Disgusting efn excuses for human beings. I hope this comes back on them and they die the horrible death they have given these poor animals.
You, who callously kill and torture these dogs and cats…you are STAINS ON THE COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUS OF HUMANITY. I know you don’t care right now, or you couldn’t do what you do….but the Animal Warriors are watching, and we are growing stronger by the minute…and we are growing in number by the second. YOU WILL BE STOPPED!!
Stop stop stop u cruel human being . EAT SUMTHING ELSE!!!
This must stop!!
Stop these devil actions!!!!
Stop cruel dog meat
Evils!!!
Your all idiots, eating a cat is lucky. Thought it was bad luck if a black cat crossed your path? Well killing it, eating it and going into your gut and bowel I really hope its bad for you. Sick disgusting vile idiots, you will have bad luck its called karma. ” respect all living things”.
this is sick we cant do anything about it I guess if they eat animals for a meal but I think its sick and why God lets it happen I hope they go to hell. I am so sorry to the animals that have to go through these kind of things its sad.
STOP ANIMAL CRUELTY NOW PLEASE
Monster!