from the Macon Telegraph 08/02/06
Shanghai, China
China slaughtered 50,000 dogs in a government ordered crackdown after 3 people died of rabies, sparking unusually pointed criticism in state media Tuesday and an outcry from animal rights activists.
Health experts said the brutal policy pointed to deep weaknesses in the health care infrastructure in China, where only 3 percent of are vaccinated against rabies and more than 2,000 people die of the disease each year.
The five day slaughter in Mouding County in Yunan province in southwestern China ended Sunday and spared only military guard dogs and police canine units.
Dogs being walked were seized from their owners and beaten to death on the spot, the Shanghai Daily newspaper reported.
:mad:
What's wrong with these people?
Communist doctrine says everyone shares the good and bad. Rather than kill someone's dog you kill everyone's dog.
Running things on a national scale means every decision/order affects billions of people.
They're making space shots but much of the country is a century behind. :(
And the poor probably ate pretty well that week :neutral:
Actually, I didn't really bad an eye when I first read that story... That's pretty run-of-the-mill for China. When SARS hit, they rounded up every person who got so much as a cold, as well as every family member of them, and put them in, quite simply, concentration camps. 'S just what they do. I don't think Bruce's logic even occurred to them, I think they just think "Rabies = Dogs.... so all dogs must go!"
Running things on a national scale means every decision/order affects billions of people.
They're making space shots but much of the country is a century behind. :(
Kind of reminds me of the Kansas school board... or oilmen in the White House. Putting a small minority of radicals in charge of policy effecting millions does not make much sense.
New Chinese slogan "space shots, not rabies shots". Do you think it was more cost effective to kill all the dogs, rather than manage the disease through dog and/or human healthcare? Will they kill all the other varmints, if there's a breakout in another species? This kind of behavior could lead to major trouble down the road.
And then there's the point that how they treat pets is indicative of how they treat people. For instance
China's mines are by far the world's deadliest, with some 6,300 deaths last year in mine floods, explosions and fires
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/02/14/china.mine/
And we enable and reward this behavior by our obsession with buying cheap Chinese products.
Dogs being walked were seized from their owners and beaten to death on the spot, the Shanghai Daily newspaper reported.
The funny thing about beating dogs to death... a person could contract rabies.
Dogs being walked were seized from their owners and beaten to death on the spot, the Shanghai Daily newspaper reported.
The funny thing about beating dogs to death... a person could contract rabies.
That is what I would call poetic justice.
Ya know what is UBERfunny? The EU and Oz are looking to china for the coming new leadership! I've read blogs wherein disgruntled Brits etc. (much like our own JayMcGee) are rooting for China to join hands with the EU to form a coalition to stand up to the mean ol' USA.
Hey, Ghandi said it: You can judge a society by the way they treat their animals.
And as for pollution--nobody does it better than China. When clouds of toxic waste make it all the way across the Pacific into Seattle--there's a problem.
Ya know what is UBERfunny? The EU and Oz are looking to china for the coming new leadership! I've read blogs wherein disgruntled Brits etc. (much like our own JayMcGee) are rooting for China to join hands with the EU to form a coalition to stand up to the mean ol' USA.
We so hafta get off this planet.
And as for pollution--nobody does it better than China.
China's infrastructure is still based on
coal-burning locomotives.
Ever been to north China in the winter?
EVERYONE burns coal. At home. For warmth. No joke, EVERYONE. You do it or you freeze.
I was in Beijing for two weeks in June and the pollution there was unbelievable. If you are in the city the light level is spread out by the huge smog clouds and it's just a hazy glow most of the day. At night the clouds reflected the light back down and they blocked the sun in the day.
Just wait till you're there in the middle of a sandstorm. The Gobi desert gets closer to the city every day, and every month or two in the summer you get sandstorms all across the city from it. The sky turns that grainy yellow colour you see in old photographs, and you can't breathe through the mix of smog, sand, and grit.
There are no white buildings in Beijing. Only gray.
I had nearly forgot about a previous
IOtD that should have taught me how ruthless the Chinese can be. Not only do I abhor their way of thinking. It's their methods that really suck.
If that link don't work, here's the image. Title is "Civet Cat Kill".
I can't believe I couldn't get the link to work. How do you do that anyway? It's in the archives of IOtD. This one was the one that helped me find the Cellar to begin with.
That's because you used URL="http://http://cellar.org/showthread.php?t=4776&highlight=civet+cat+kill"]IOtD[/URL]
instead of
http://www.cellar.org/showthread.php?t=4776. ;)
I left out one parenthesizes so it would show the URL a not "IOtD".
China's infrastructure is still based on coal-burning locomotives.
Not to worry. Verily as we sleep, China is making a deal with Venezuela, to buy their oil with all that Walmart money. :vader1:
Not to worry. Verily as we sleep, China is making a deal with Venezuela, to buy their oil with all that Walmart money. :vader1:
Somehow, I feel confident that they will find a way to make that oil burn as dirty as possible. :neutral:
Way to save money on vacinations and traps China! Would a bullet have cost too much? Savages.....
I wonder how you say spay or neuter in Chinese. I'm prone to believe they just love to kill. They prolly signed bombs as children......:bolt:
Weren't you on about killing snakes in another thread Cap'n? Don't get all morally superior here...:rolleyes:
Hey, you can't equate fluffy puppies to those slimy, evil, pets of the Devil. :lol:
Weren't you on about killing snakes in another thread Cap'n? Don't get all morally superior here...:rolleyes:
Point taken. I guess that is mildly hypocritic. I've been bitten by snakes and I seem to have a personal dislike for them. I wouldn't dream of launching a county-wide massacre, however. :earth:
Use the booze defense Capt.
Oh, the snake bite cure....good thinking. :thumbsup:
I wouldn't dream of launching a county-wide massacre, however.
And if I were walking my pet snake down the street, you wouldn't take it and beat it to death in front of me, right?
The civet was not likely a pet. It was probably having its glands harvested to make some sort of weird Chinese potion or perfume.
Would a bullet have cost too much?
The Chinese government still bills families of convicted (read: accused) criminals for the price of the bullet used to kill them.
When you make a dime or two a day, yeah, it would cost you too much.
And if I were walking my pet snake down the street, you wouldn't take it and beat it to death in front of me, right?
By all means, no. I would give an extra wide berth to anyone walking their pet snake down the street.:worried:
How would one walk their pet snake? Just wonderin'.
Veeerrryyyy carefully. :worried: