Letters to the Editor
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And then there are the bear farms,
Where they farm caged moon bears for bile. So some humans can live long and prosper:
http://www.animalsasia.org/
There's not too much difference between that and their use of the dogs. Other than - the bears are allowed to live until they become unproductive in their cages.
Despite great, sensitive philosophical traditions passed down over thousands of years, one may find that the Chinese civilization as a whole was never really overly concerned about their use of the environment.
To read more about that, this poetic survey of 5,000 years of Chinese environmental history is a good place to start:
The Retreat of the Elephants: An Environmental History of China by: Mark Elvin
And then, contrast that sad state with the depth of human and worldly knowledge covered in say Bill Porter's book: 'Road to Heaven: Encounters With Chinese Hermits' and the more recent film on the same topic:
Amongst White Clouds http://www.amongstclouds.com
So knowing all that, I guess if we are going to be doing more business with them, at least we should come prepared to sit at their tables. And acknowledge their help assisting the current administration in subsidizing our fake wars by floating us the funds.
Or possibly not, as the case may be:
http://www.boycottmadeinchina.org/
But we would have to give up our cute cheap toys in the process.