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The current spotlight on China's human rights record fails to illuminate its cruel and inhumane treatment of dogs and cats.
  • Bears, dogs, cats, people

    All this ridiculous political correctness... goodness. Having spent some time in China I can assure you that the Chinese generally are not exactly nice to animals. They actually often seem to have no feeling at all for other creatures. But they can also be like that with each other so there we go. We all know that human rights go hand in hand with animal rights, so this shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone.

    I have no problem judging crappy barbaric behavior whether it's in China, or in the west in our disgusting slaughter houses that play out scenes from a horror movie every day of the week. Oh, and to all those tiring people who like to watch wildlife shows on Animal Planet none of this has anything to do at all with how wild animals kill each other for food - really, nothing. Just google some videos of factory farms or dogs being skinned alive if you dare. But you probably don't dare.