Animal rights in China
Fun greetings from China! Just a few things I’ve been reading lately about that mighty lovely country, suitable for hosting the Olympics, for example!
“When the fur is finally peeled off over the animals’ heads, their naked, bloody bodies are thrown onto a pile of those who have gone before them. Some are still alive, breathing in ragged gasps and blinking slowly. Some of the animals’ hearts are still beating five to 10 minutes after they are skinned. One investigator recorded a skinned raccoon dog on the heap of carcasses who had enough strength to lift his bloodied head and stare into the camera.”
“Bear farms prevent any of the natural behaviour seen in wild bears. Bears are caged for many hours per day in tiny cages, and many have been witnessed to suffer permanent confinement in cages. The size of these cages vary by country but many bears suffer confinement in cages equivalent to the size of a telephone booth turned on its side. The bears can not stand or turn around in these conditions.
Farmed bears show extremely high levels of stereotypic (repetitive) behaviour such as bar biting, tongue flicking, weaving, rocking, rearing, rubbing and route tracing. They have also been witnessed to have sores, injuries, diseases and other health problems related to confinement. ”
” As I arrived two dogs were fighting in the ring. Let loose by their trainers, they would bite and scratch until eventually pulled away from each other. Their barks resonated around the amphitheater.”
“Then a single goat was pushed into the ring, bleating with fear. To get it moving around the cage its mate was led around on the outside of the cage. The goat inside the enclosure was so desperate to get out of the cage it jumped up at the 10 foot high wire fence.
The atmosphere was electric when the door to the lion’s cage was opened, but the lion had to be prodded with sticks to come out.”
“The dog had been hung up, while alive i might add, by a hook through it’s chin. Legs tied together. In one swift motion a man stabbed the dog in the neck and proceeded to slice the dog open all the way down. An ocean of blood is the only way I could describe it. I had to turn away, and tried to leave as fast as i could, but the sounds the dog was making, the screaming, not a wail or a whimper, but screams, almost human, definately unnatural, were audible down the street, even as i tried to escape the sight, i was haunted by the sound. It was truly one of the most inhumane things I’ve ever seen, and one of the most traumatic.”
“China has become the world’s largest exporter of fur, largely due to the country’s ABSENCE OF ANIMAL WELFARE PROTECTION and surplus of cheap labor.”
“The South China tiger is one of the smaller and it is the most critically endangered of any of the living tiger subspecies. Experts maintain that there are fewer than 20 of these tigers left in the world, and warn that it might become extinct within the next decade. Becoming widely persecuted, their wild population of the South China tiger fell from more than 4,000 to less than 200 by 1982.”
” The crowd look on as another dog is beaten to death ”
“Whilst I was researching some additional information, for my Helium zone, I came across some worrying details relating to the animal Olympics that China had held in 2006. (…)
To get the horses to fight those involved will present a mare that is in season so that the stallions are aroused. The mare will then be removed. Added to this the horses are whipped until they are in a frenzy, so that they will put on a good show. Usually the horses do not fight to the death but there are always casualties. Often these injuries will result in a horse having to be destroyed.
The Animal Olympics in China obviously are cruel to the animals. Many of these animals are muzzled, frightened, taunted and more, in order to make them “perform”.”
“China has an appalling record regarding human and animal rights. Among the cruelty to animals in China there is:-
- The slaughter of cats, dogs and other animals by skinning them alive.
- The use and export of this fur to countries such as ours.
- Dogs beaten to death on the streets of China on a regular basis.
- A population that still seems to enjoy the cruel spectacle of animal suffering.”
PICTURES you can’t unsee.
China. Die.
“When the fur is finally peeled off over the animals’ heads, their naked, bloody bodies are thrown onto a pile of those who have gone before them. Some are still alive, breathing in ragged gasps and blinking slowly. Some of the animals’ hearts are still beating five to 10 minutes after they are skinned. One investigator recorded a skinned raccoon dog on the heap of carcasses who had enough strength to lift his bloodied head and stare into the camera.”
“Bear farms prevent any of the natural behaviour seen in wild bears. Bears are caged for many hours per day in tiny cages, and many have been witnessed to suffer permanent confinement in cages. The size of these cages vary by country but many bears suffer confinement in cages equivalent to the size of a telephone booth turned on its side. The bears can not stand or turn around in these conditions.
Farmed bears show extremely high levels of stereotypic (repetitive) behaviour such as bar biting, tongue flicking, weaving, rocking, rearing, rubbing and route tracing. They have also been witnessed to have sores, injuries, diseases and other health problems related to confinement. ”
” As I arrived two dogs were fighting in the ring. Let loose by their trainers, they would bite and scratch until eventually pulled away from each other. Their barks resonated around the amphitheater.”
“Then a single goat was pushed into the ring, bleating with fear. To get it moving around the cage its mate was led around on the outside of the cage. The goat inside the enclosure was so desperate to get out of the cage it jumped up at the 10 foot high wire fence.
The atmosphere was electric when the door to the lion’s cage was opened, but the lion had to be prodded with sticks to come out.”
“The dog had been hung up, while alive i might add, by a hook through it’s chin. Legs tied together. In one swift motion a man stabbed the dog in the neck and proceeded to slice the dog open all the way down. An ocean of blood is the only way I could describe it. I had to turn away, and tried to leave as fast as i could, but the sounds the dog was making, the screaming, not a wail or a whimper, but screams, almost human, definately unnatural, were audible down the street, even as i tried to escape the sight, i was haunted by the sound. It was truly one of the most inhumane things I’ve ever seen, and one of the most traumatic.”
“China has become the world’s largest exporter of fur, largely due to the country’s ABSENCE OF ANIMAL WELFARE PROTECTION and surplus of cheap labor.”
“The South China tiger is one of the smaller and it is the most critically endangered of any of the living tiger subspecies. Experts maintain that there are fewer than 20 of these tigers left in the world, and warn that it might become extinct within the next decade. Becoming widely persecuted, their wild population of the South China tiger fell from more than 4,000 to less than 200 by 1982.”
” The crowd look on as another dog is beaten to death ”
“Whilst I was researching some additional information, for my Helium zone, I came across some worrying details relating to the animal Olympics that China had held in 2006. (…)
To get the horses to fight those involved will present a mare that is in season so that the stallions are aroused. The mare will then be removed. Added to this the horses are whipped until they are in a frenzy, so that they will put on a good show. Usually the horses do not fight to the death but there are always casualties. Often these injuries will result in a horse having to be destroyed.
The Animal Olympics in China obviously are cruel to the animals. Many of these animals are muzzled, frightened, taunted and more, in order to make them “perform”.”
“China has an appalling record regarding human and animal rights. Among the cruelty to animals in China there is:-
- The slaughter of cats, dogs and other animals by skinning them alive.
- The use and export of this fur to countries such as ours.
- Dogs beaten to death on the streets of China on a regular basis.
- A population that still seems to enjoy the cruel spectacle of animal suffering.”
China. Die.
