China Seizes 10,000 Wild Animals in Anti-SARS Raids, AFP Says

Bloomberg ^ | May 28

[presidio9]

Chinese officials have seized more than 10,000 wild animals in raids on food markets and ports of entry in an effort to stop transmission of SARS, Agence France-Presse said, citing police and official media.

The virus has been found in civets, badgers and raccoon dogs, according to researchers. These animals have all been seized, along with thousands of other mammals, birds and snakes, AFP said, citing China's official Xinhua News Agency.

[CJ Wolf]

SOUPS ON!!!!!

[Timesink]

Hey PETA!

EAT THIS!

[tallhappy]

Communits are al;ways good at bullying and harrassing people trying to make a living.

Communists put on a show for the outside world, but don't do anything tangible.

[Michael.SF.]

"Chen Xibiao, head of the forestry and wildlife division ....' Dogs and cats will still be sold for food,"

SOUP'S ON!!

[Michael.SF.]

Opps. Sorry, I did not see your post, when I posted my comment. Great minds think alike, they say.

[CJ Wolf]

Yours was better visually!

[theFIRMbss]

>Chinese officials have seized more than 10,000 wild animals in raids on food markets and ports of entry in an effort to stop transmission of SARS, Agence France-Presse said, citing police and official media.

Just a few years back
mad cow disease forced Britain
to slaughter millions

of animals. Now
China has tens of thousands
(or even millions)

sentenced to slaughter.
Animal deaths on this scale
make me wonder if

there is a real threat,
(both issues center around
"cross-species" [!] killers)

or if we're making
animals classic scape-goats
in complicated

scenarios of
bad human nutrition and
incomplete human

understanding of
biology and our health.
I know we're better

safe than sorry, but,
Jesus, we as a species
are killing a hell

of a lot of life
lately. I pray all this death
is doing some good.

[HairOfTheDog]

I hope I will remain shielded from a hideous sight like what I imagine is happening over there.

[b4its2late]

Taste like chicken?

[mabelkitty]

Much ado about nothing.

Genie is already out of the bottle, and nobody else is stupid enough to believe this press release as anything more than window dressing.

[mabelkitty]

I agree.

I've read it back in January, and have never heard about it again - the delicacy of eating live monkey brains and opening head exposes people to God only knows.

However, this is how AIDS was transmitted, so go figure.

I still believe it is a man-made biological weapon the released for populatioin control (and to invade Taiwan and Hong Kong in the name of "health"), but rather than spreading it and then controlling it, it's beyond the reach of containment.

China can't support 1 billion people and become an industrialized modern country.

[afz400]

Leave it to an ahole like you to find humor in misery that happens to God's other living creatures.

[GrandMoM]

I still believe it is a man-made biological weapon the released for populatioin control ....I said that when I first heard of SARS !

[b4its2late]

Bite me!

[b4its2late]

P.S.

You are unreservedly pathetic, starved for attention, and lost in a land that reality forgot. And what meaning do you expect your delusionally self-important statements of unknowing, inexperienced opinion to have with us? What fantasy do you hold that you would believe that your tiny-fisted tantrums would have more weight than that of a leprous desert rat, spinning rabidly in a circle, waiting for the bite of the snake?

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[Dog]

LOL!

[Rebelbase]

"Dogs and cats will still be sold for food, he said. "

Thats comforting to know.

BTW, cat does smell like chicken. Confirmed by a friend who's kitty crawled up into engine area of their car. An hour later, there wasn't much left but the smell.

[Rebelbase]

Correction, neighbor's kitty.

[aristeides]

If the coronavirus in these animals, instead of causing SARS symptoms, confers immunity to SARS, what's the point in getting rid of them? Could this all be a diversion?