China's Animal Torture

FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | April 26, 2006 | Spencer Warren and Lawrence Auster

[Disturbin]

I don't trust the red Chinese as far as I can throw them.

[Disturbin]

Thanks -- now I can't eat dinner!

[Varda]

Friends who visited China came back vegetarians. They were horrified by the way the Chinese treated animals. Restaurants would hang live animals by the feet for a couple of days before killing them. This was before I found out about the way they treat baby girls. I'll never travel to China and try not to buy products from there.

[CherylBower]

I don't understand any company who would risk investing in anything over there. They don't have rule of law, they have rule of whoever is in charge at the time. If I enter into a contract with a company (most likely owned by the PRC) I could perform my portion and they could do anything they want, including not perform their portion of the contract. If I bought a building, what's to stop the PRC gov't to eventually say all property belongs to the gov't (again). Very uncertain business climate. I would be nervous.

[CherylBower]

Well, they have no regard for human life. Why would they care about animals?

[Vaquero]

What they do to humans disturbs me.

How they prepare animals for food is also disturbing.

But the fact that they eat cats and dogs instead of say, pigs, is irrelevant. There culture finds them edible and it is not for me to say it isn't. We have Filipino friends who would eat my dog if it was not someones pet. They have no love for dogs except as a main course, but do respect the conventions and norms of living in suburban America.

I know people who have kept potbelly pigs as pets. They love them and some wont eat pork anymore after having had them as pets.

I couldnt eat my dog. God, he is part of the family. If my human family was starving that is a diffent thing I suppose.

It is whatever floats your boat. After all we are the dominant predator

[TaxRelief]

Eating carnivores is risky.

[Americanchild]

if you're buying fur, there's no way to tell whose skin you're wearing.

Not true to a properly trained furrier. Every type of fur has a particular nature to it and can be identified. Any company buying cat and dog hair should be out of business for incompetence.

As far as eating cats and dogs,personally I don't feel carnivores are fit to eat. However, the real issue is how they raise and slaughter the animals. There is no excuse for cruelty.

[onja]

I met an exchange student from Iraq. He's a kurd. He found all dogs, even my 10 pound one, really scary and extremely dirty. Only after a lot of coaxing would he even touch it.

[Son Of The Godfather]

Usually, I roll my eyes at PETA-like folks, but the above report is pretty accurate regarding the treatment of the animals in China.

I saw one horrible video of a "cat preparation" in China. Some laughing a-holes grabbed an abviously terrified feline around the neck with the kind of loopy-thing that animal control folks in the U.S. have. While the cat is squirming every which way, it is lifted on a poll over a vat of either boiling oil or water and dipped in several times until its fur and skin eventually sluff off. The cat is still alive.

What struck me at that point of the video was the laughter of the people doing the slaughtering. I mean, its one thing to have to kill a living thing in order to feed your family... But to do it in such horrible fashion and to revel in it just escapes my comprehension.

If your backward-ass culture drives you to eat cats or dogs or chimps, fine... chow down. Just don't create unnecessary misery for the creatures.

PS: As I write this, my 2 yr old yellow lab just put her head in my lap, licked my elbow, and looked at me with her big, brown eyes. Personally, I'd starve to death rather than go with a lab drumstick.

[Vaquero]

so is feeding brains of sheep to cows risky but they did and it caused mad cow.

most diseases are killed by cooking. but prions which infect cattle and other animals can not be cooked away...bummer

Pigs are Omnivores and are nasty carnivores if live food presents itself. We eat them...but we must be careful and cook thoroughly.

[ovrtaxt]

Proverbs 12:10 ¶A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

[Old_Mil]

China is a renegade nation, practicing a renegade form of capitalism. Unfortunately, renegade capitalists in the United States are all too willing to go along with the Chinese model if it adds a few percentage points to their bottom line.

[proudofthesouth]

I don't trust ANY Commie as far as I can throw them!

[Old_Mil]

But the fact that they eat cats and dogs instead of say, pigs, is irrelevant. There culture finds them edible and it is not for me to say it isn't. We have Filipino friends who would eat my dog if it was not someones pet. They have no love for dogs except as a main course, but do respect the conventions and norms of living in suburban America.

Thank you for posting one of the clearest arguments I've seen which supports cultural colonialism by the west. I am not being sarcastic when I say this, by the way. If you travel the third world as extensively as I have, you eventually come to the realization that, "Yes, Virginia, we were better than they are."

[Old_Mil]

If your backward-ass culture drives you to eat cats or dogs or chimps, fine... chow down. Just don't create unnecessary misery for the creatures.

Out of curiousity, why? There are African tribes that used to eat the brains of dead relatives. Are we supposed to just accept this sort of foolishness in the name of cultural sensitivity, or as the culture that spread hospitals, orphanages, antibiotics, and space travel should we go forth and civilize the world?

[nmh]

Proverbs 12:10

¶A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

AMEN!

God sees this. He'll punish the guilty.

[ovrtaxt]

Communists have no regard for life- it's evil at it's core.

These are the people harvesting human transplant organs for sale to the highest bidder. Sick.

[New Girl]

Barbarians.