Little support for cat lovers' calls

GUANGZHOU: Animal lovers staged a demonstration here on Wednesday to call for an end to the trade in cats for food, Information Times reported on Friday.

More than 40 people gathered outside the city's railway station carrying banners and yelling "Give up eating cats cats are humans' friends, not food," it said.

The protest followed reports on Monday that thousands of cats were being shipped every day from Nanjing, Jiangsu province, to Guangzhou, where they ended up in restaurants.