Most disturbing thing i have seen in a long long time..
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http://articles.news.aol.com/news/_a/china-massacres-50000-dogs-in-anti/20060801000009990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001
China Massacres 50,000 Dogs in Anti-Rabies Campaign
Dogs Being Walked Seized From Their Owners and Beaten to Death on the Spot
By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN, AP
SHANGHAI, China (Aug. 2) - China slaughtered 50,000 dogs in a government-ordered crackdown after three people died of rabies, sparking unusually pointed criticism in state media Tuesday and an outcry from animal rights activists.
Health experts said the brutal policy pointed to deep weaknesses in the health care infrastructure in China, where only 3 percent of dogs are vaccinated against rabies and more than 2,000 people die of the disease each year.
The five-day slaughter in Mouding county in Yunnan province in southwestern China ended Sunday and spared only military guard dogs and police canine units, state media reported.
Dogs being walked were seized from their owners and beaten to death on the spot, the Shanghai Daily newspaper reported. Led by the county police chief, killing teams entered villages at night creating noise to get dogs barking, then beat the animals to death, the reports said.
Owners were offered 63 cents per animal to kill their own dogs before the teams were sent in, they said.
The killings were widely discussed on the Internet, with both legal scholars and animal rights activists criticizing them as crude and cold-blooded. The World Health Organization said more emphasis needed to be placed on rabies prevention.
The official newspaper Legal Daily blasted the killings as an "extraordinarily crude, cold-blooded and lazy way for the government to deal with epidemic disease."
"Wiping out the dogs shows these government officials didn't do their jobs right in protecting people from rabies in the first place," the newspaper, published by the central government's Politics and Law Committee, said in an editorial in its online edition.
In an editorial, the official Xinhua News Agency said the killings wouldn't have been necessary if the local government had been more attentive, but called the slaughter "the only way out of a bad situation."
"If they'd discovered this earlier, they could have vaccinated the dogs and ... controlled the outbreak," the editorial said.
The killings prompted calls for a boycott of Chinese products from the activist group People For the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
"We are urging everyone to actively boycott - not a word we use lightly - anything from China given the bludgeoning killing of thousands of dogs," PETA President Ingrid Newkirk said.
She said the group had canceled all orders of merchandise it sells that are made in China. Will Wright, at PETA's European office in London, said the orders were worth about $300,000.
"We believe other groups will join us in expressing outrage over the blatant cruelty to animals the world is witnessing," Wright said.
Mouding County officials defended the slaughter in a region where about 360 of the 200,000 residents suffered dog bites this year, with three people reportedly dying of rabies, including a 4-year-old girl.
"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 Xinhua.
Calls to county government offices went unanswered Tuesday. Located in mountains about 1,240 miles southwest of Shanghai, Mouding is famed for its Buddhist shrines.
Unlike in the West, where dogs have long been cherished as companions or helpmates, dogs have rarely had an easy time in China. Dog meat is eaten throughout the country, revered as a tonic in winter and a restorer of virility in men.
Following the communist seizure of power in 1949, dog ownership was condemned as a bourgeois affectation and canines were hunted as pests. Attitudes have softened in recent years, although urban Chinese are still subject to strict rules on the size of their pets and must pay steep registration fees.
About 70 percent of rural households now keep dogs, according to the Chinese Center of Disease Control and Prevention, and increased rates of dog ownership have been tied to a surge in the number of rabies cases in recent years. It said there were 2,651 reported deaths from the disease in 2004, the last year for which data was available.
Access to rabies treatment is also highly limited, especially in the countryside, said Dr. Francette Dusan, a World Health Organization expert.
Effective rabies control requires coordinated efforts between human health, animal health and municipal agencies and authorities, Dusan said.
"This has not been pursued adequately to date in China, with most control efforts consisting of purely reactive dog culls," she said.
08-02-06 01:45 EDT
China Massacres 50,000 Dogs in Anti-Rabies Campaign
Dogs Being Walked Seized From Their Owners and Beaten to Death on the Spot
By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN, AP
SHANGHAI, China (Aug. 2) - China slaughtered 50,000 dogs in a government-ordered crackdown after three people died of rabies, sparking unusually pointed criticism in state media Tuesday and an outcry from animal rights activists.
Health experts said the brutal policy pointed to deep weaknesses in the health care infrastructure in China, where only 3 percent of dogs are vaccinated against rabies and more than 2,000 people die of the disease each year.
The five-day slaughter in Mouding county in Yunnan province in southwestern China ended Sunday and spared only military guard dogs and police canine units, state media reported.
Dogs being walked were seized from their owners and beaten to death on the spot, the Shanghai Daily newspaper reported. Led by the county police chief, killing teams entered villages at night creating noise to get dogs barking, then beat the animals to death, the reports said.
Owners were offered 63 cents per animal to kill their own dogs before the teams were sent in, they said.
The killings were widely discussed on the Internet, with both legal scholars and animal rights activists criticizing them as crude and cold-blooded. The World Health Organization said more emphasis needed to be placed on rabies prevention.
The official newspaper Legal Daily blasted the killings as an "extraordinarily crude, cold-blooded and lazy way for the government to deal with epidemic disease."
"Wiping out the dogs shows these government officials didn't do their jobs right in protecting people from rabies in the first place," the newspaper, published by the central government's Politics and Law Committee, said in an editorial in its online edition.
In an editorial, the official Xinhua News Agency said the killings wouldn't have been necessary if the local government had been more attentive, but called the slaughter "the only way out of a bad situation."
"If they'd discovered this earlier, they could have vaccinated the dogs and ... controlled the outbreak," the editorial said.
The killings prompted calls for a boycott of Chinese products from the activist group People For the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
"We are urging everyone to actively boycott - not a word we use lightly - anything from China given the bludgeoning killing of thousands of dogs," PETA President Ingrid Newkirk said.
She said the group had canceled all orders of merchandise it sells that are made in China. Will Wright, at PETA's European office in London, said the orders were worth about $300,000.
"We believe other groups will join us in expressing outrage over the blatant cruelty to animals the world is witnessing," Wright said.
Mouding County officials defended the slaughter in a region where about 360 of the 200,000 residents suffered dog bites this year, with three people reportedly dying of rabies, including a 4-year-old girl.
"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 Xinhua.
Calls to county government offices went unanswered Tuesday. Located in mountains about 1,240 miles southwest of Shanghai, Mouding is famed for its Buddhist shrines.
Unlike in the West, where dogs have long been cherished as companions or helpmates, dogs have rarely had an easy time in China. Dog meat is eaten throughout the country, revered as a tonic in winter and a restorer of virility in men.
Following the communist seizure of power in 1949, dog ownership was condemned as a bourgeois affectation and canines were hunted as pests. Attitudes have softened in recent years, although urban Chinese are still subject to strict rules on the size of their pets and must pay steep registration fees.
About 70 percent of rural households now keep dogs, according to the Chinese Center of Disease Control and Prevention, and increased rates of dog ownership have been tied to a surge in the number of rabies cases in recent years. It said there were 2,651 reported deaths from the disease in 2004, the last year for which data was available.
Access to rabies treatment is also highly limited, especially in the countryside, said Dr. Francette Dusan, a World Health Organization expert.
Effective rabies control requires coordinated efforts between human health, animal health and municipal agencies and authorities, Dusan said.
"This has not been pursued adequately to date in China, with most control efforts consisting of purely reactive dog culls," she said.
08-02-06 01:45 EDT
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Yea, i dont come on here too much. I usually lurk around in the Porch and the GTF forums. But when i saw this in the news, i just had to show people.. and this is the only place i know where that article would fit. Imagine walking your dog and having the fucking asian gestapo come up to you and beat your dog senseless
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Nope, cant say i have. But there has to be a more civilized way to handle this. I doubt 50,000 dogs all had rabies. Go walk your dog, then have a few guys come up to it with clubs to beat it to death because they *think* it might have rabies. We'll see how you feel then.
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lol, so that justifies their behavior
was like a picture
of a sunny day
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
― Abraham Lincoln
Not to mention the health hazard that all of the dead dogs themselves pose to the general public. I mean seriously, lots of other ways that things could have been handled better.
Sounds to me like a sad case of lack of education (as far as the rabies shots not being given in the first place), and a gov't bent on ruling its people through fear and tourment.
I'm going to go love on my dogs now.
Still this is a bad way of dealing with the problem and unfortunately this is just a spark of passion for PETA and ALF. Prepare for more fire bombing.
Yea, talk about getting beaten to death in front of your family...
but the dog thing is absolutely sick. (I wonder if any Chinese went off and killed a dog-killer or two). You'd think people could get it together seeing as we're supposedly such "intellegent" creatures. (In handling our own affairs, our handling of animals, the earth, etc...). terrible state we're in, i tell ya.
Darfur is a human tragedy that deserves more attention than it gets. You do make a point, but the existance of the genocide in Darfur dosn't make this story any less upsetting.
Unfortunately there is quite a bit going on in the world that does not reflect kindly on humankind.
Yeah, well, some of us like dogs better than people.......
Mohandas K. Gandhi
~I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance than I should have been by any epaulette I could have worn.~
Henry David Thoreau
Keep this in mind when you think that "wow, wouldn't it be great if America fell and capitalism failed, and then we all found our way back to a beautiful communist system to rule us"
Wow, that was slick....somehow the slaughter of dogs in (Commy) China is now forever linked in my mind with the (Capitalist) CIA dasterdley actions in Cuba. Nice move.....
Got a link....I am listening.
Also very well respected professor Howard Zinn reports the sabatage in his book A People's History of the United States, his source the US government.
In 1959 the American-backed Cuban dictator, General Batista, fled as Fidel Castro’s forces freed Cuba. The new Cuban government was not Communist and attempted to maintain friendly relations with America. But the redistribution of the wealth-producing-processes in Cuba from foreign ownership to Cuban ownership and their regaining control of their destiny was the very thing that threatened American managers-of-state the most. Embargoes were put into effect to force a rescinding of those policies. Cuba promptly turned to the Soviet Union for technological and economic support and embraced the Communist ideology.
.....thought Fidel was always a communist, or at least had sympathies and organized sympathizers
The Cuban economy developed rapidly. Measured by averages, Cuban students now lead the world in education, their health care equals America’s, and infant mortality is lower.c No Cubans were hungry, housing was being rapidly built, and a sign outside Havana read: “Millions of children in the world sleep in the street and not one is Cuban.”
....Ummm, this sounds like propoganda....alot like propoganda.
Anyway the CIA part is probably true, I don't doubt it.
But, if the dogs in China are treated badly, how do they treat the people?
Don't know, never been to China...don't know much about it. Probably sucks there...
http://www.furisdead.com/feat/ChineseFurFarms/
http://forums.pearljam.com/showthread.php?t=272825
aka the "hog-o-caust"...ok...bad joke.
http://forums.pearljam.com/showthread.php?t=272825
Esther's here and she's sick?
hi Esther, now we are all going to be sick, thanks
http://stream.realimpact.net/?file=realimpact/hsus/2006-seal-hunt/overview_2006.wmv&type=wmv
http://www.protectseals.org
http://forums.pearljam.com/showthread.php?t=272825
all 50,000 dogs didn't *have* rabies though...
if they did, then yes, killing them would be the appropriate course of action.