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Pious Perverts See other Pious Perverts Articles Title: Chinese county clubs to death 50,000 dogs SHANGHAI, China - China slaughtered 50,000 dogs in a government-ordered crackdown after three 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 dogs are vaccinated against rabies and more than 2,000 people die of the disease each year. The five-day slaughter in Mouding county in Yunnan province in southwestern China ended Sunday and spared only military guard dogs and police canine units, state media reported. Dogs being walked were seized from their owners and beaten to death on the spot, the Shanghai Daily newspaper reported. Led by the county police chief, killing teams entered villages at night creating noise to get dogs barking, then beat the animals to death, the reports said. Owners were offered 63 cents per animal to kill their own dogs before the teams were sent in, they said. The killings were widely discussed on the Internet, with both legal scholars and animal rights activists criticizing them as crude and cold-blooded. The World Health Organization said more emphasis needed to be placed on rabies prevention. Mass killings condemned The official newspaper Legal Daily blasted the killings as an “extraordinarily crude, cold-blooded and lazy way for the government to deal with epidemic disease.” “Wiping out the dogs shows these government officials didn’t do their jobs right in protecting people from rabies in the first place,” the newspaper, published by the central government’s Politics and Law Committee, said in an editorial in its online edition. In an editorial, the official Xinhua News Agency said the killings wouldn’t have been necessary if the local government had been more attentive, but called the slaughter “the only way out of a bad situation.” “If they’d discovered this earlier, they could have vaccinated the dogs and ... controlled the outbreak,” the editorial said. Pet activists call for boycott The killings prompted calls for a boycott of Chinese products from the activist group People For the Ethical Treatment of Animals. “We are urging everyone to actively boycott — not a word we use lightly — anything from China given the bludgeoning killing of thousands of dogs,” PETA President Ingrid Newkirk said. She said the group had canceled all orders of merchandise it sells that are made in China. Will Wright, at PETA’s European office in London, said the orders were worth about $300,000. “We believe other groups will join us in expressing outrage over the blatant cruelty to animals the world is witnessing,” Wright said. Mouding County officials defended the slaughter in a region where about 360 of the 200,000 residents suffered dog bites this year, with three people reportedly dying of rabies, including a 4-year-old girl. “With the aim to keep this horrible disease from people, we decided to kill the dogs,” Li Haibo, a spokesman for the county government, was quoted as saying by Xinhua. Calls to county government offices went unanswered Tuesday. Located in mountains about 1,240 miles southwest of Shanghai, Mouding is famed for its Buddhist shrines. A dog's life for real Unlike in the West, where dogs have long been cherished as companions or helpmates, dogs have rarely had an easy time in China. Dog meat is eaten throughout the country, revered as a tonic in winter and a restorer of virility in men. Following the communist seizure of power in 1949, dog ownership was condemned as a bourgeois affectation and canines were hunted as pests. Attitudes have softened in recent years, although urban Chinese are still subject to strict rules on the size of their pets and must pay steep registration fees. About 70 percent of rural households now keep dogs, according to the Chinese Center of Disease Control and Prevention, and increased rates of dog ownership have been tied to a surge in the number of rabies cases in recent years. It said there were 2,651 reported deaths from the disease in 2004, the last year for which data was available. Access to rabies treatment is also highly limited, especially in the countryside, said Dr. Francette Dusan, a World Health Organization expert. Effective rabies control requires coordinated efforts between human health, animal health and municipal agencies and authorities, Dusan said. “This has not been pursued adequately to date in China, with most control efforts consisting of purely reactive dog culls,” she said.
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Are you kidding? I am not watching it. Why would they do it? Skin them ALIVE?? Are they teenagers?
No, it's how the people live in China. You really don't want to watch it. Something about inflicting pain upon an animal to make it taste better. What you see on television and in your newspapers is all a lie, Communist China is the worst gathering of humanity upon this planet.
They skin the fur bearers alive because they think it improves the fur quality. I am not sure about the meat though. You could be right about that. It sounds like something these scumbags would do. This is the video page text: http://www.peta.org/feat/chineseFurFarms/index.asp When undercover investigators made their way onto Chinese fur farms recently, they found that many animals are still alive and struggling desperately when workers flip them onto their backs or hang them up by their legs or tails to skin them. When workers on these farms begin to cut the skin and fur from an animal's leg, the free limbs kick and writhe. Workers stomp on the necks and heads of animals who struggle too hard to allow a clean cut. When the fur is finally peeled off over the animals' heads, their naked, bloody bodies are thrown onto a pile of those who have gone before them. Some are still alive, breathing in ragged gasps and blinking slowly. Some of the animals' hearts are still beating five to 10 minutes after they are skinned. One investigator recorded a skinned raccoon dog on the heap of carcasses who had enough strength to lift his bloodied head and stare into the camera. There is nothing, IMO, wrong with harvesting fur. But dammit, there is no excuse to make the animal suffer needlessly. None. And now we have another life-is-cheap communist as our Fearless Leader. As for these dogs, I cant imagine what I would do if it was a pet that was killed like this. There is probably nothing I could do, at that moment. Killing these thousands of dogs illustrates perfectly how the chinese "leadership" are.
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