Caged Monkey Kings, Naked Foxes and Screaming Bunnies: Working Animals

Abstract

The iron gate of the slaughter room was firmly shut. Four workers in rain boots were playing cards in a room nearby with a few others watching. ‘The animal department is responsible for this, its head, Zheng, not at work’, someone shouted from inside the room. ‘After experiments, all the dogs are used as dog food, chopped up and fed to the dogs, to the dogs kept here’, the person continued.¹