Letters to the Editor
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the author's opinion is exactly wrong
"abetting genocide in Sudan, imprisoning dissidents, and conducting an ongoing religious persecution of Tibetans, which has flared into violence once again.only a DNA test can reveal the difference between the fur of domestic and wild species..."i can't imagine how the author wrote the artile.i disagree your views in the article.where do your views come from?do you have any clue?many opinions in your article are stutpid and naive.i admit some chinese eat dogs,but never cats.you're ignorant.chinese also like dogs,like animals.you think you're kind?you never have killed any life?that's a big joke.your contry is democratic.no poor?i don't want to talk to you.you don't deserve.i am so angry about your views.you don't know China.please close your mouth.your words is dirty.don't stain greatly kind Chinese
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Torturing Animals Is The First Sign Of Mental Illness. Are The CEO's of Factory Farms Mentally Ill?
What's really the difference between a 16 year old that sets a cat on fire (and has no emotion like pity or sorrow) and a CEO of a factory farm that can look at the horrid conditions his animals "live" in and also feels no emotion?
Both these nutjobs have zero emotions.
The kid feels nothing when it watches the cat slowly die.
The CEO feels nothing as it strolls past cows with open sores lying in their own filth -- or being skinned alive because they wasn't stunned properly -- or watching a cow or a pig try to run away on broken legs to escape from being killed.
Both or examples of psychotic behavior, aren't they?
Yes.
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Asinine
I bet those durned furners don't even have the courtesy to speak English!
If you can't tolerate cultural practices different form your own, that's OK but you should stay the hell home watching I Love Lucy and eating Wonder Bread. This is why Americans have such a bad reputation for being privincial and arrogant.
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Our friends
Just one more reason to boycott the Olympics.
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PS
PS, when you went to China, didn't you know the people who lived there would be foreigners?
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different cultural practices
Female genital mutilation is also a "cultural practice" "cultural difference". Don't hear too many defenders of it on that basis do you?
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Cultural pracitces? Give me a break.
If something makes an animal suffer in the USA, that same thing will make it suffer in China, regardless of whether or not it is culturally acceptable in the latter.
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Jeebus
I don't know why I keep coming back to this thread, but the racism and cultural chauvanism here is overpowering. We've had a person say they'd like to see a "dog killer" butchered. We've had multiple people say that the Chinese are "barbarians." This coming from a country with factory farm animal abuse and Guantanamo Bay hidden in its backyard. And a country that invaded another "pre-emptively."
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the point I was making Tim is that since the "dark side" of animals exists in humans too it's existence can't be used to define the difference between them
nobody would dispute that humans have abilities that animals don't have.
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Re: different cultural practices
The fact that predators exist in the wild does not imply man must automatically imitate them. Cannibalism and rape also occur in nature. Robert Louis Stevenson, in his book In the South Seas, noted that there was virtually no difference between the "civilized" Europeans and the "savages" of the Cannibal Islands. "We consume the carcasses of creatures with like appetites, passions, and organs as our own. We feed on babes, though not our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain and fear."
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Mind your own business!!!
We should not be so quick to damn Chinese cultural differences as wrong. Many cultures do not look upon our regular consumption of beef and pork as acceptable, yet we'd be the first to tell them to take a flying leap. People in glass houses should not throw stones. We are the most wasteful country, where hunting for "sport" is widely accepted. Yet no other country has as much obesity and eating disorders such as bulemia and anorexia as us. We have diseases for eating too much AND eating too little!!! We should take a deep hard look at ourselves before we judge others and try to impose our beliefs. No wonder the rest of the world thinks we're arrogant....
BTW, I agree, I'd never eat dog or cat, but I can see the difference between animals raised as pets and as food. EVERY culture on this planet has something that most other cultures would find unappetizing or outright gross to eat. Doesn't mean its wrong. Seems like the Chinese were trying to honor this man by serving dog. When you're a guest in another country, you should honor their traditions and culture.
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nothing wrong with cat/dog consumption
Other cultures have the right to consume whatever common animal species they find convenient. Pigs are smarter than cats and dogs anyway. There are more important issues to worry about.
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Ted Kerasote's article, "An Olympic Disgrace"
I am a great admirer of Ted Kerasote's books.
As for his article on China, I knew of the abuse of animals and of course the travesty in Tibet, but his article is an important one in that it points out the cruelty of treatment, not just the cultural differences of eating dogs and cats vs. cattle.
I put my money where my mouth is. I do not buy goods from China unless it is absolutely necessary, I would not attend the Olympics there and I would do nothing to promote their economy if I could consciously help it.
In the US, I buy organic farm raised and humanly treated meats and nothing mass produced. It is only when we stop buying Chinese products that they will listen. Money talks and it is time we let China know we do not approve of many of their governmental policies.
Sincerely, Anne O'Donoghue Mackesey
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BOW-WOW AND MEOW ARE HEADED FOR THE HOT-POT!
BOWSER and KITTY are HEADED fer the chinese HOT-POT! It is a WELL-KNOWN fact that the chinese will EAT ANYTHING THAT MOVES OR DOESN'T MOVE, including freshly-born hairless baby rats that are mewling and blindly crawling about, drenched in honey! Dog and Cat, therefore, are both DELICACIES for the chinese palate, which would DELIGHT in the scene of Larry Fine chasing a doggie through the restaurant in a Three Stooges(tm) short, brandishing, of course, a chinese cleaver!!!!! Anything is fair game, from tiger, deer and snake penises to bear's paws to sea cucumbers[which look much more disgusting than their innocuous name would merit!]! But Ted Kerasote is RIGHT ON THE MONEY about how the chinese treat dogs and cats, YES, they WOULD send a dog or cat OUT "on a night like this," as they HAVE SCANT REGARD for the value they put on their own human life, MUCH LESS those lives of animals!