PETA Slams China for Piles of Dead Dogs Dumped in the Street

WARNING: Video contains very distressing content - viewer discretion is advised

PETA blasted Chinese regime officials after a video emerged showing the bodies of dogs killed in Xi’an that were dumped on the street.

The animal rights group said that it was a “cruel” and “ineffective” way to deal with strays.

PETA posted a clip showing footage of what it estimates are about 20 dogs killed in the city, adding that Chinese regime departments should provide shelters for stray animals while punishing people who killed the dogs.

“Not only is killing stray dogs in this way cruel, it’s also totally ineffective,” said PETA Asia Vice President Jason Baker on Aug. 13, according to a Storyful translation.

The statement added: “Animal population experts agree that laws mandating that all owned animals be sterilized to prevent unwanted births–coupled with full-service animal-sheltering programs–are the most effective ways to reduce stray animal populations.”

“Stray dogs, not just in China but all over the world, are poisoned, hit by cars, tortured at the hands of cruel people, or suffer from disease or starvation. PETA asks that everyone does their part to help in the fight against animal overpopulation: always spay/neuter your pets, and always adopt animals from shelters or rescue groups, never buy them from breeders or pet stores,” PETA said.

In recent months and years, there have been an increasing amount of Chinese social media users reporting on events that expose police brutality and how the Chinese regime has utter disregard for life. Under the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the lack of freedom of speech and freedom of expression means that anyone speaking out against the government or police can end up imprisoned and even subjected to torture.

Even Worse: ‘Slow-Motion’ Genocide Going on Now in China

On July 28, the Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting, which seeks to expose forced organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners and other dissidents in China. In July 1999, the Chinese Communist Party started a campaign to eradicate Falun Gong, a spiritual practice with 70 million to 100 million adherents in China.

According to Dr. Torsten Trey, executive director of DAFOH, the CCP has engaged in a “slow-motion“ or “cold” genocide targeting Falun Gong, and forced organ harvesting has played a major role, according to The Epoch Times in its July report.

On Aug. 15, University of Manitoba associate professor Dr. Maria Cheung discussed the difference between a “cold” genocide and a “hot” genocide.

“No one will pay attention to it because it’s too slow to notice that this is actually a systematic killing with a clear intention,” Cheung told Epoch Times in an interview, referring to “cold” genocides. “I think what makes a genocide is the intention, not the scale, of the killing. It’s an intention to eradicate a group.”

Apple, iPhone, and iPad are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries.

Since 2000, they said, there has been a dramatic increase in the infrastructure used for organ transplants inside China. Hospital beds have dramatically increased as well as transplant teams on transplant wards.

Dr. Glynn Gilcrease III, who is a medical oncologist at the University of Utah School of Medicine, explained that forced organ harvesting is the Chinese state-mandated practice of removing organs from non-consenting prisoners of conscience, which includes Falun Gong practitioners. “This is only done in China,” Gilcrease said.

“Now it’s over 170 hospitals that are doing transplants, and it is just like a normal business,” added Cheung. “No one would know there is systematic killing unless they ask the source of organs. So it becomes a daily activity, but under cover. It is a big crime.”

Top video credit: PETA Asia via Storyful