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In the end, he really did. Shenzen will be the first Chinese city to ban the consumption of meat from dogs, cats and other wildlife. The ban, already under discussion at the end of February following the spread of the coronavirus epidemic in China, has finally been signed. The new regulation approved on Tuesday by the Municipal People's Congress will come into effect from 1 May 2020.
The government of the fourth most populous city in China with its 13 million inhabitants communicated this directly with a note specifying that:
“It is forbidden to eat cats and dogs. The consumption of other animals and poultry reared for consumption is permitted by law. The law prohibits the consumption of all wild land animals, whether they are bred in captivity or caught in the wild.
Snakes, insects, birds and turtles are also excluded from the list of edible animals. The new regulation aims, in practice, to eliminate the irreducible irreducible citizens of consuming wild animals in order to safeguard "biological and ecological safety in order to effectively prevent the main risks to public health".
Dogs and cats as pets have established a much closer relationship with humans than any other animal and banning their consumption is common practice in developed countries and in Hong Kong and Taiwan ",
said Liu Shuguang, director of the legislative affairs committee of the Standing Committee of the Shenzhen Municipal People's Congress.
The city of Shenzen, in the province of Guangdong, in southern China, is located immediately north of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and therefore holds the sub-provincial administrative state that gives it slightly different powers than the province to which it belongs. Hence the different sensibility of the city that led to the decision, unfortunately not yet shared in the rest of the People's Republic of China where it is still very common to eat cats and dogs.
The highest Chinese legislature had, in fact, at the end of February, following the outbreak of the pandemic, approved a ban on the illegal trade in wildlife. Provincial and city governments across the country have moved to enforce the ruling, but Shenzhen has been the most vocal about extending that ban to cats and dogs.
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“There is no evidence that wildlife is more nutritious than poultry and livestock. Poultry, livestock and aquatic species authorized for consumption (among which unfortunately there is also the frog as opposed to the initial proposal in February ed) can satisfy people's daily lives "
said Liu Jianping, deputy head of the Food Safety and Nutrition Office of the Shenzhen Center for Disease Prevention and Control.
Under the newly approved regulation, consumers of protected wildlife will be fined 5 to 30 times the value of the animals and the people who manage the sale and trade of wildlife will be fined 3 to 10 times their illicit income. In addition to being prosecuted also criminally.
We hope that the example is also followed in the rest of China where, we recall, the infamous Yulin dog meat festival still takes place every year.
Source: Shenzhen Government
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