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Chinese county kills 50,000 dogs; ...beats to death in front of owners.
Topic Started: Aug 2 2006, 07:35 AM (625 Views)
ivorythumper
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AlbertaCrude
Aug 2 2006, 10:52 AM
Gunshots at dawn usually meant the police were on a cull.

I would have thought it was the sounds of shopping for dinner. :leaving:
The dogma lives loudly within me.
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AlbertaCrude
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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
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JBryan
Aug 2 2006, 12:56 PM
It seems everything Mao did was an excercise in the extreme. Food shortages? Turn everyone (and I mean everyone) out into the fields. Poor manufacturing sector? Turn everyone (and I mean everyone) into the factories. That was the Great Leap Forward and brought about one of the greatest famines the Chinese have ever known. Today you can hear the refer to it as the Great Leap Backward. So, yes, having people expunge the face of the earth of every blade of grass is right in character with Mao.

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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JBryan
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AlbertaCrude
Aug 2 2006, 12:52 PM
Hey JBryan, from your travels in China are packs of semi feral dogs running about cities and villages common?

It was downright dangerous in Western Siberia when I was there- packs running wild. Gunshots at dawn usually meant the police were on a cull.

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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dolmansaxlil
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Any thoughts as to why, JB?
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JBryan
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I think they were mostly eaten.
"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.

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dolmansaxlil
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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
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JBryan
Aug 2 2006, 12:11 PM
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. ... You will never see or hear a wild bird in most parts of China.

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
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lb1
Aug 2 2006, 02:26 PM
LW,

I feel for the dogs also. I love dogs and have had 1+ dogs all my life. There is a responsibility that goes with pet ownership though. No pet should be allowed to endanger the life or property of another person. There is no doubt that this could have been handled different but the article does state that only about three % of dogs in China are vaccinated for rabies. Couple this with the enormous number of people that die there from rabies, something had to be done.

When you are up to your a** in alligators, the mosquitos swarming around your head are not a priority.

lb

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
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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
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JBryan
Aug 2 2006, 10:08 AM
dolmansaxlil
Aug 2 2006, 11:04 AM
I'm not sure this has a much to do with communism as it has to do with the bizarre extremist approach that the Chinese government has historically used to deal with minor issues (like when they had school children plucking grass out of the ground because any greenery other than agricultural pursuits were considered to be wasteful). Nothing about a communist economic model would encourage this ridiculous behaviour.

This is a common feeling amongst the Chinese people. A lawn to them is silly. You work your butt off to grow it and keep it trimmed and you can't even eat it or sell it. It is quite common to see houses with rice planted right up to the walls. that being said, they do have grass in their parks and gardens, many of which are quite stunning in their beauty.

Some farmers are the same way.

You stop your rows ten feet from the house.
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Nobody's Sock
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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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