The ChiComs do even worse. Reports have been published over the years about how they capture and bind with ropes cats and then toss them alive into large pots of boiling water to cook them for meals.
I have yet to hear of any US agency rescuing any of those poor cats or protesting their treatment in any way.
When I worked in China in 1977, I saw two young boys put a dog in a 12 inch steel pipe laying on the ground at our construction site. They banged on the pipe with rocks so long that the poor dog came out almost insane. I was told they do that to make the dog’s fur stand up before they kill it because it makes a much finer hat with erect fur.
True that. The worst offenders in animal cruelty, and they have the backward cruel belief (or using as an excuse) that “torture makes the meat taste better”. They not only horrifically torture cats and dogs but all other animals as well...savagely beating them beforehand to “tenderize” the meat, skinning, boiling, roasting alive, cutting off body parts but keeping them alive so the rest of the meat stays “fresh”. The animals die a slow agonizing death.
Anyone who’s capable of doing that or thinking it’s fine is extremely apathetic/sociopathic and desensitized and severely lacking basic compassion, they are dangerous and would do this to humans if they could get away with it.