VIETNAM: WOMAN CAT BUTCHER AT WORK IN SAIGON. Cat butchers work in the open on the edge of a busy road in Saigon. Using boiling water, she's scraping off the cat's fur. Then she'll blast the carcass with an open flame burner. No one cares about the cat slaughterhouse operating on the edge of a busy road. Many of the cats are stolen pets. Some have house collars and name tags. Some are expensive pure bred cats which are not common in Vietnam. To cat thieves they all end up as cat meat. Millions o

An eatery and slaughterhouse in Vietnam serving ‘thịt mèo’ (cat meat) has shuttered its operations after owner Pham Quoc Doanh said he felt regretful over drowning over 300 cats a month to serve cat broth and meat dishes at its restaurant–especially knowing that many were stolen pets. “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,” Doahn said in a statement organized by charity Humane Society Inte

This animal liberation group is notorious for its large-scale protests, which sometimes involve illegal tactics like civil disobedience and trespassing. One of their largest actions to date: occupying an egg farm in California and removing chickens from the property. | VICE Selects

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