A shocking clip of a dog being cooked alive in a wok in China went viral (video below).

In the disturbing video, the terrified dog can be seen sitting in a wok and crying out in pain as locals watch and laugh while the dog is seemingly cooked alive. The person cooking the animal pokes at it, moving the dog around the wok like a piece of food.

The dog barks and cries loudly as it is seemingly burned severely while being cooked alive, and bystanders continue to laugh as the butcher prevents the animal from escaping the wok.

Many readers expressed horror over the incident, calling for the people who cooked the dog and allowed the abuse to happen to be punished.

"The dog was suffering and they were laughing and joking about it that was the most disturbing video i have ever seen," one Mad World News reader commented on the site's Facebook page. "I will never get the sound of the dog crying in agony out of my mind that was so fucked up.That has to be stopped."

"If slaughterhouses had glass walls, we'd all be vegan," another wrote. "60 billion land animals die at the hands of less than 10 billion people a year. It's not just China. Look on your own plates and backtrack to where your 'food' came from. You'd throw up knowing you were responsible for their torture before they got slaughtered."

"I tried to watch but I couldn't, it makes me so mad to see someone so cruel to do something like that," one reader commented. "The ones laughing tie them up and put them in boiling water and see if they laugh."

In a similar incident, a dog was filmed being boiled alive by men at a Chinese market.

"This animal died the worst death imaginable," animal rights advocate Michele Brown told Mirror of the incident.

"You can see raw fear in the dog’s eyes as its carried towards the boiling water. As they drop the dog into the water it screams for help, skin burning and blistering. It flails around so much, two strong men have to hold on to the lid. The young boy is an innocent child and he appears to be repulsed by what he saw. He was scared but unfortunately this probably won’t be the last time he will see a dog being boiled alive."

Warning: This video contains graphic content.