This pitiful spectacle is repeated time and time again at a market in southern China where hundreds of ... Mr Kung, who buys a ton of cat meat a week, tours the villages in a van and collects ...

The distressing story of how cats in China are being reared for their meat and kept in horrific conditions as they await slaughter has prompted an unprecedented response from femail.co.uk readers.

“These are China’s two main cat meat eating hotspots,” Dr Peter Li ... after the disease was linked to a market in the central city of Wuhan selling live animals for food.