Letters to the Editor
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Red Herring....or Red dogs and cats.
This piece is such an obvious plant. This is the exact kind of moralistic humdrum we are constantly hearing from the mainstream media. The pattern is completely in line with American policy. We have good trade relations with a country (i.e.- we exploit them, they provide for us) and everything is hunky-dory until our economy starts to shift a little bit, starts to stumble. Then, suddenly, we have to figure out how its not our fault. Someone took our jobs. Someone is importing goods that they shouldn't be, poison toys, poison food, OH GOD ITS CHINA!!-- But wait...China has had the same standards for a while. We've known China has a bad human rights record. We've known their environmental policies are lacking...why is it suddenly at issue now? Could it be attached to the falling value of the dollar, our fear of the emerging economic power of China? No... come on.
And then along comes this neat little story about how, not only when it comes to the environment, not only when it comes to human rights, are the Chinese failing, but look at the fluffy little things they (relegated to simply "they" now, an "other")are willing to put in their evil mouths! God knows we don't treat animals like that, except cows, pigs, chickens, alligators, goats, deer, moose, snakes, racoons, turkeys, and in exceptional cases, horses. But man...Cats and Dogs, thats the bottom of the line...thats abhorrent.
The only thing that is actually disturbing is that some people will see this, extrapolate from our cultural values that eating dogs and cats shouldn't be the norm for them either, and actually be angry over this tripe. If you think the Chinese are bad, look at yourselves. We've only bought their fur (cat and Dog), bought their toys, their garments, and their food, essentially subsidizing their entire economy, for the last thirty odd years. But yeah, now they are a problem.