中国流浪猫终成"盘中餐"?

A year after a scandal broke out over stray cats being shipped to dinner tables in south China, the taste for cat meat apparently persists, and along with it, the trade in abandoned cats.
一年前，中国南方爆出流浪猫成为人们盘中餐的丑闻，而现在，人们对猫肉的嗜好似乎依然存在，与此相随的是对流浪猫的交易。

Last week, cat lovers in the northern city of Tianjin rescued around 1,300 cats that were bound for meat dealers in the southern province of Guangdong, Xinhua reports. The cats were found in cages in a store in the city, a few of them, including a pregnant female, already dead.
据新华社报导，天津的爱猫人士上周救出了大约1,300只本来会落入广东肉贩手中的猫。这些猫是在天津一家商店的笼子里发现的，其中一些已经死亡，包括一只怀孕的母猫。

While the dramatic rescue underscores increasing awareness and activism over animal rights in China, it also raises other concerns. One of the rescue volunteers, a man surnamed Wang, told Xinhua that the cats had been injected with stimulants to keep them alive during transportation and that he expected more to die once the effects of the drugs wore off.
这次大规模营救行动彰显了日渐高涨的中国动物权利意识和动物权利保护行动，但同时也引起了其他方面的担忧。一位姓王（音）的营救志愿者对新华社说，这些猫被注射了兴奋剂，以便让它们在运输途中存活，他预计随着药效减弱，将会有更多的猫死亡。

For the surviving cats, their longer-term welfare also poses a dilemma. Since China doesn't have established animal shelters to house abandoned pets, the cats are receiving ad hoc support, kept in cages in a couple unused classrooms at a Tianjin primary school while they wait for people to claim or adopt them. They rely on donations of food from the public.
活下来的猫的长期生活也是个难题。由于中国尚无常设的动物收容所容纳被遗弃的宠物，这些猫得到了特别的照顾，被放在天津一所小学的几间空教室里的笼子中，等着被人认领或是收养。它们的食物依靠公众捐赠。

Lu Di, chairwoman of the Beijing-based China Small Animal Protection Association, told Xinhua an animal shelter would be set up in Tianjin to house the cats as part of a broader campaign to create shelters in 10 cities across China.
中国小动物保护协会的会长卢荻告诉新华社，天津将建立一个动物收容所，收容这些猫，这是在中国10个城市建立收容所的更大规模行动的一部分。

But Wang, the rescuer, said he doubted that more than 20% of the rescued cats could be housed in the new shelter. 'If we set the remaining 80% free, they will probably be caught and traded again,' he said, according to Xinhua.
但前文所述的王姓志愿者说，他怀疑被救助的猫只有20%多能被新收容所收容。据新华社报导，他说，如果我们放了剩下的那80%，它们很可能又被人抓去卖掉。