“What I saw was a city in preparation for the annual massacre,” he wrote. “A slaughterhouse at the city’s Dong Kou market had just received a new supply of dogs shipped from Sichuan. The unloaded dogs looked emaciated, dehydrated and terrified. Inside two other slaughterhouses hidden in residential areas not far from the market, dogs and cats, many wearing collars, displayed behavior associated with household pets.
“The slaughter is more than an insult to the nation’s expanding animal-loving community.”