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| Chinese county kills 50,000 dogs; ...beats to death in front of owners. | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Aug 2 2006, 07:35 AM (625 Views) | |
| ivorythumper | Aug 2 2006, 10:30 AM Post #26 |
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
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I would have thought it was the sounds of shopping for dinner.
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| AlbertaCrude | Aug 2 2006, 10:51 AM Post #27 |
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Bull-Carp
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No, by Yelstin's time there was plenty of food available in stores, kiosks and markets. There was however a shortage of money so in many cases barter became a means of feeding you and your family. Unlike raw fish, dog is not a Russian dish either by choice or tradition. |
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| dolmansaxlil | Aug 2 2006, 10:53 AM Post #28 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Yep, he took every idea and ran with it. When steel was still the indicator by which national wealth and power was measured (though he was on the very tail end of that) he had people melting down household pots and pans to get steel. He had school children collecting scrap metal. None of the steel melted down was of any use, but he got to claim that China had produced X tonnes of the stuff. |
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"Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst." ~ Henri Cartier-Bresson My Flickr Photostream | |
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| JBryan | Aug 2 2006, 12:11 PM Post #29 |
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I am the grey one
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I did not see many dogs in China the whole time I was there and I went to a lot of very rural locations. On my last few trips I began seeing them a lot more even in the major cities. the area of China they are talking about in this article is one I have not seen so maybe there have always been a lot of dogs there. In Guangdong they would probably be technically termed livestock. One thing interesting is that I have never seen any wild birds in China except in the most remote places like mountain tops or forests. It is almost spooky. My last trip to Shanghai I saw a flock of birds out the window flying around at my brother-in-law's apartment. I asked him if wild birds were making a reappearance. He told me those birds were not wild and they belonged to someone who released them every day for excercise. They would always return. You will never see or hear a wild bird in most parts of China. |
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"Any man who would make an X rated movie should be forced to take his daughter to see it". - John Wayne There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it". Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody. Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore. From The Lion in Winter. | |
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| dolmansaxlil | Aug 2 2006, 12:15 PM Post #30 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Any thoughts as to why, JB? |
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| JBryan | Aug 2 2006, 12:17 PM Post #31 |
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I am the grey one
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I think they were mostly eaten. |
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"Any man who would make an X rated movie should be forced to take his daughter to see it". - John Wayne There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it". Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody. Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore. From The Lion in Winter. | |
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| dolmansaxlil | Aug 2 2006, 01:01 PM Post #32 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Yeah, I suppose that would make sense. But wow. It's hard to fathom. But when you've had a country with such a huge population that lived largely in turmoil and poverty for the past, what? 100 years? I guess it makes sense. |
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| AlbertaCrude | Aug 2 2006, 01:35 PM Post #33 |
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Although there plenty of birds in Western Siberia, you never see much else in the way of wildlife. I recall a jackrabbit crossing the road in front of jeep once. For the next 2 hours the Russians I was with couldn't stop raving about the *abundance* of wildlife in the region, despite admitting that it was the only jackrabbit or any other wild mammal short of a city dwelling garbage rat they had seen in over 10 years. One of our service rig hands though thought he saw a small bear, but wasn't sure. |
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| LWpianistin | Aug 3 2006, 01:13 AM Post #34 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Something could be done...like vaccinate the dogs OR just continue to eat them and not have them as pets. BUT there are more important things that need tended to. I like your analogy. |
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| xenon | Aug 3 2006, 03:41 AM Post #35 |
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The method used to kill these dogs was horrible. As for the loss of life, animals are slaughtered en masse everyday. |
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| Jolly | Aug 3 2006, 07:23 AM Post #36 |
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Geaux Tigers!
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Some farmers are the same way. You stop your rows ten feet from the house. |
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| Nobody's Sock | Aug 3 2006, 07:55 AM Post #37 |
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Them China mens are a bunch of animals. I mean really, we don't taste that good! I guess nothing a little MSG and Soy Sauce wouldn't fix though. |
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