EDIT: Not to offend anyone of Chinese ethnicity. I'm talking about the Chinese government.. I would hope thats obvious for most.. (people are too easily offended)
Chinese County Massacres 50,000 Dogs
By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN, Associated Press Writer
5 hours ago
SHANGHAI, China - A county in southwestern China has killed as many as 50,000 dogs in a government campaign ordered after three people died from rabies, official media reported Tuesday.
The five-day massacre in Yunnan province's Mouding county spared only military guard dogs and police canine units, the Shanghai Daily reported, citing local media.
Dogs being walked were taken from their owners and beaten on the spot, the newspaper said. Other killing teams entered villages at night, creating noise to get dogs barking, then honing in and beating them to death.
Owners were offered 63 cents per animal to kill their dogs before the teams were sent in, the report said.
The massacre was widely discussed on the Internet, with both legal scholars and animal rights activists criticizing it as crude and cold-blooded. The World Health Organization said more emphasis needed to be placed on prevention.
"Wiping out the dogs shows these government officials didn't do their jobs right in protecting people from rabies in the first place," Legal Daily, a newspaper run by the central government's Politics and Law Committee, said in an editorial in its online edition.
Dr. Francette Dusan, a WHO expert on diseases passed from animals to people, said effective rabies control required coordinated efforts between human and animal health agencies and authorities.
"This has not been pursued adequately to date in China with most control efforts consisting of purely reactive dog culls," Dusan said.
The Shanghai Daily said 360 of Mouding county's 200,000 residents suffered dog bites this year. The three rabies victims included a 4-year-old girl, the report said.
"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 the official Xinhua News Agency.
Calls to county government offices rang unanswered on Tuesday.
China has seen a major rise in the number of rabies cases in recent years, with 2,651 reported deaths from the disease in 2004, the last year for which data was available, according to the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
Experts have tied the rise in part to an increase in dog ownership, particularly in rural areas where about 70 percent of households keep dogs. Only about 3 percent of Chinese dogs are vaccinated against rabies, according to the center. Access to appropriate treatment is highly limited, especially in the countryside.
this reminds me of when i lost my dog, he got ran over,it sucked, it was monday morning, i was about to go to school and it happend,i cried all day....
-Let's just say i was testing the bounds of reality. I was curious to see what would happen. Thats all it was:just curiosity.
goodness the level of obtuseness on this board is amazing sometimes. jeez, its come to clubbing dogs to death eh? sad. if they must kill them, why not a better method.....
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Yeah... I suggest sticking with only the vegtables dishes at the local Chinese take-out for the next couple of months.
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But I am ethnic Chinese, so YOU go fuck yourself. There's plenty of shit that goes on in every country--don't be so stupid as to make a dumb-as-fuck generalization like that. Ignorant twat--or racist/xenophobic halfwit. Take your pick.
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goodness the level of obtuseness on this board is amazing sometimes. jeez, its come to clubbing dogs to death eh? sad. if they must kill them, why not a better method.....
It's no worse than Whacking Day in Springfield.
1/12/1879, 4/8/1156, 2/6/1977, who gives a shit, ...
then just don't go around with Fucking Chinese in your thread title... i mean if you can't see that you will offend someone by posting "fucking chinese", i don't know what to say. If someone start a thread saying "fucking french canadian" you'll have me in his face, and a lot more agressive than what you got from her/he...
And that someone would have that sweet smell of poutine and Du Maurier cigarettes in their face.
Lol -- I couldn't resist. Feel free to make fun of drunken Finlanders at will.
1/12/1879, 4/8/1156, 2/6/1977, who gives a shit, ...
as a person that shares the planet with the chinese i find it highly offensive to label it "fucking chinese", it is this closed mindedness that keeps us from fully appreciating all cultures. the government is doing what is in the best interestes of its citizens, who are we to judge?
live and let live.
live and let live...unless it violates the pearligious doctrine.
Theyre doing the craziest stuff over there in preparation for the upcoming Olympics.
That hurts to hear, there are more humane ways to putting down a poor little dog.
Jesus.
I think you are referring to China's Government and not its people.
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as a person that shares the planet with the chinese i find it highly offensive to label it "fucking chinese", it is this closed mindedness that keeps us from fully appreciating all cultures. the government is doing what is in the best interestes of its citizens, who are we to judge?
live and let live.
I honestly don't remember posting this and my first thought was of offense as well.. For a second I thought somebody hijacked my account and then realized I once said some words based on emotion..
I mean, shit vedderislove.. this is from 2 years ago!
I honestly don't remember posting this and my first thought was of offense as well.. For a second I thought somebody hijacked my account and then realized I once said some words based on emotion..
I mean, shit vedderislove.. this is from 2 years ago!
i did not even notice the date the topic had been created......i do agree.....people are "too easily offended". people need to get a spine, fall down and get up and then repeat the process, get good at the process, the material which we take offense to will continue throughout life.
live and let live...unless it violates the pearligious doctrine.
Shit,
i hope these chinese villagers weren't stupid,
and managed to cash in to get their SIXTY-THREE CENTS before they lost both the loot and the pooch.
I mean, shit ... SIXTY THREE FUCKING CENTS!
You could buy up a whole goddamn family of dogs for that price.
And probably enough szechuan sauce and rice to cook the fuckers up right!
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If I opened it now would you not understand?
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this reminds me of when i lost my dog, he got ran over,it sucked, it was monday morning, i was about to go to school and it happend,i cried all day....
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Yeah... I suggest sticking with only the vegtables dishes at the local Chinese take-out for the next couple of months.
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Whats this about Xena?
It's no worse than Whacking Day in Springfield.
And that someone would have that sweet smell of poutine and Du Maurier cigarettes in their face.
Lol -- I couldn't resist. Feel free to make fun of drunken Finlanders at will.
live and let live.
That hurts to hear, there are more humane ways to putting down a poor little dog.
Jesus.
I think you are referring to China's Government and not its people.
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...a lover and a fighter.
"I'm at least half a bum" Rocky Balboa
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I mean, shit vedderislove.. this is from 2 years ago!
Which is ironic because Whacking Day was originally invented as an excuse to beat up the Irish.
The lesson is that invariably, all clubbings stem from racism.
wtf
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...a lover and a fighter.
"I'm at least half a bum" Rocky Balboa
http://www.videosift.com/video/Obamas-Message-To-American-Indians
Edmonton, AB. September 5th, 2005
Vancouver, BC. April 3rd, 2008
Calgary,AB. August 8th, 2009
Come on now, it's different culture in that country.
For fucking sakes, they don't give a shit about their own people, you think they give a fuck about animals?
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i hope these chinese villagers weren't stupid,
and managed to cash in to get their SIXTY-THREE CENTS before they lost both the loot and the pooch.
I mean, shit ... SIXTY THREE FUCKING CENTS!
You could buy up a whole goddamn family of dogs for that price.
And probably enough szechuan sauce and rice to cook the fuckers up right!
If I opened it now would you not understand?