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Olympics clean up Chinese style: Inside Beijing's shocking death camp for cats
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| Last updated at 00:55am on 9th March 2008
| SIMON PERRY
Posted on 03/09/2008 9:12:50 AM PDT by null and void
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To: null and void
Those cages remind me of pictures I've seen of Chinese cats waiting to be butchered in restaurants (in China). What always amazes me is how they have the colorings and markings of just regular housecats we are so familiar with. When I heard of cats being slaughtered en mass for food and such I don't know why I pictured all gray or brown wild-looking cats. Like the common brown dogs pictured running around streets in the third world. Interesting how cats don't have to be bred special to maintain their colorful markings.
To: DUMBGRUNT
Some catlover is going to be really p*ssed at you.
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posted on
03/09/2008 10:02:31 AM PDT
by
353FMG
(Vote for the Person who will do the least damage to our country.)
To: null and void
Well, if the chinese are so poor and hungry, they can just eat those cats. THen when the rats take over, they can eat those too. The chinese aren’t picky about what they eat.
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posted on
03/09/2008 10:04:20 AM PDT
by
mamelukesabre
(Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?)
To: null and void
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"There are no cats here, go away. No one is allowed inside unless you have official permission,"
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posted on
03/09/2008 10:22:05 AM PDT
by
uglybiker
(I do not suffer from mental illness. I quite enjoy it, actually.)
To: AmericaUnite; Slings and Arrows; Glenn; republicangel; Bahbah; Beaker; BADROTOFINGER; etabeta; ...
Now they should not be surprised by the rise in rodent born diseases. It may well be the year of the rat in China. Karma's a b*tch. Excuse me if I'm not sympathetic.
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posted on
03/09/2008 10:31:03 AM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
("Those who surrender personal liberty for lower global temperatures will receive neither."--weegee)
To: null and void
Duh, I think I’ll pass on Chinese food in the future.
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posted on
03/09/2008 10:31:53 AM PDT
by
kenmcg
To: Slings and Arrows
“In 1958, Chairman Mao started a war. His foe: millions of hungry animals across China, particularly the sparrow. Villages and cities were mobilized to execute the birds en masse. Their crime: pecking away at fields and storehouses, stealing precious grain from the mouths of China’s masses. Entire families brandished pots, pans, and other weapons of cacophonous warfare to panic the birds into forced flight, causing millions of them to drop from the skies.
The sparrows, it was discovered, could sustain no more than a minute or so of continuous flight without dying of fatigue- this technique, along with firing squads and nest destruction, killed an estimated 4 million or more sparrows.
The sparrow war backfired, however. By the time it was realized that the sparrow consumed primarily insects, not grain, the locust population had already spiraled out of control. This event, along with other causes culminated in the deaths of 30 million people as famine unfolded across the land from 1959-1961. This was just one of the many disasterous inititatives of Mao’s Great Leap Forward.”
Commies, always ready to learn from history.
To: Tijeras_Slim
Commies, always ready to learn from history. You can't see it, but I'm farting in the general direction of Mao's grave.
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posted on
03/09/2008 10:42:18 AM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
("Those who surrender personal liberty for lower global temperatures will receive neither."--weegee)
To: null and void
these people kill their baby girls, why would they care about their cats.
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posted on
03/09/2008 10:56:21 AM PDT
by
Mercat
(To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. Micah 6:8)
To: Mercat
these people kill their baby girls
after they are born, why would they care about their cats.
Fixed it. Not that abortion is any better but it shuts up the moral equivocators.
To: mikey_hates_everything
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posted on
03/09/2008 11:19:49 AM PDT
by
null and void
(It's 3 AM, do you know where Hillary is? Does she know where Bill is? Does Bill know what 'is' is?)
To: mamelukesabre
The chinese arent picky about what they eat.They tend to avoid cheese (and maybe moose?)
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posted on
03/09/2008 11:21:26 AM PDT
by
null and void
(It's 3 AM, do you know where Hillary is? Does she know where Bill is? Does Bill know what 'is' is?)
To: null and void
Yep, trade one plague for another.
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posted on
03/09/2008 11:31:03 AM PDT
by
Biggirl
(A biggirl with a big heart for God's animal creation, with 4 cats in my life as proof. =^..^=)
To: null and void
Recipe for Plague:
Fewer cats.
More rats. Before killing off 500,000 urban feral cats, it might be wise to consider what will happen to the rat population.
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posted on
03/09/2008 11:36:09 AM PDT
by
kennedy
(No relation to fat Teddy.)
To: kennedy
*shrug* If they time it right, plague will break out at the very peak of the Olympic crowd peak.
It would go world wide within days of everyone going home...
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posted on
03/09/2008 11:41:12 AM PDT
by
null and void
(It's 3 AM, do you know where Hillary is? Does she know where Bill is? Does Bill know what 'is' is?)
To: null and void
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posted on
03/09/2008 11:45:10 AM PDT
by
dinodino
To: null and void; Clintonfatigued
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posted on
03/09/2008 12:19:28 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
("Those who surrender personal liberty for lower global temperatures will receive neither."--weegee)
To: Slings and Arrows
To: Slings and Arrows; null and void
And now let's turn to
Kashmir. What is happening to feral animals in third world countries should be no surprise to the West.
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posted on
03/09/2008 12:32:37 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
(The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.)
To: null and void
It would cost next to nothing to humanely euthanize these cats by putting them in an enclosed space and hooking up an exhaust pipe. There is abig rabies problem in China, so I can understand if the STRAY cat population is so out of control that they have to do mass round-ups and killings, but it would be easy and cheap to do it humanely. But there’s no reason take housecats that either kept indoors or spayed/neutered. The Chinese government is just sadistic. They are alos doing forced relocations of people who have nowhere to go, and destroying their homes and businesses to clear out the city as a PR show. I will have no respect for any athlete who participates in these Olympics. The right thing to do is to decline to go and say why publicly.
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