Caged monkeys in Dongguan

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Dongguan Times
April 24, 2009

Today’s Dongguan Times expresses concern over the plight of over a hundred locked-up monkeys that were found in the city yesterday.

According to the paper’s report, the monkeys were found packed up in cages and waiting to be loaded to a truck at the city’s railway station yesterday morning. The cages were marked as being sent by rail from Xi’an.

A worker who was loading the truck told the newspaper that the monkeys would be trained to perform. But some spectators at the scene expressed their doubts. One of them suggested that the monkeys may end up supplying local upscale restaurants.

This is not an entirely baseless assumption: last year, over 1,500 cats were transported to Dongguan to be sold in local produce markets for nine to fourteen yuan a kilo.

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