Beijing - Police raided markets in Sichuan province after state television documented a thriving trade in meat from dogs and other animals that died of poisoning or disease, China Central Television (CCTV) reported on Tuesday.
CCTV showed police and public health officials raiding meat warehouses and examining frozen dog carcasses following a weekend undercover report on a thriving trade in meat from dogs and pigs collected from the countryside.
The carcasses were frozen or ground into sausage and sold at a fraction of the price of fresh meat to urban areas as far away as the southern boomtown of Shenzhen, CCTV said in a report broadcast on Saturday.
Vendors in markets near Chengdu, capital of southwestern Sichuan province, bought carcasses from peasants without asking questions about the cause of the animals' deaths as long as the meat was fairly fresh, CCTV said.
“Because local people use poison to kill rats, sometimes dogs eat the poison and die. Most of the dead pigs died from disease,” CCTV quoted a vendor in the small city of Jianyang as saying.
Along a road leading from Chengdu to Jianyang, signs offering to buy the meat of dead dogs, pigs and other animals are posted almost every half-mile, the report said.
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