China Slaughters 50,000 dogs, Beaten on the spot Options

[BlackCelicaGT94]

Im disgusted by this. China ordered the slaughter because people had died of rabies. As disgusting as killing them is - im more disgusted by the fact that they offered the owners 63 cents to kill their dogs before they did it for em. They also beat them to death. You wanna kill an animal then shoot it in the head! uhh this makes me want to throw up


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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

This post has been edited by BlackCelicaGT94: Aug 2, 2006 - 4:10 PM

[Celiracer18]

Agreed! if they have to get rid of them then why dont they just shoot them instead-- lot quicker and pain free, for the dog atleast. I dont think i could ever kill my dog, not even for a million dollars.

[97sccelica]

bullets cost money, thats why they didnt shoot them

way cheaper to have someone you are already paying to be on duty just swing a bat or something like that.

Nazi's did something similar. they would tie two people together, shoot one and then throw them into a river, they didnt want to waste bullets killing prisoners and ropes and rivers were easy to come by.

[saleeka]

If you think thats deplorable, have you heard anything about the forced sterilizations and abortions China has been doing since imposing the one child rule some 20 odd years ago? This article I posted isnt nearly as good as the one written in Time last year, but you get the point regardless-

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[mzztoyota]

~sigh~ America is far from perfect, but when I hear things like this, I'm happy to be where I am...

[BlackCelicaGT94]

^^ agreed!

i almost started to cry. They had a picture of some guy just thorwing a lil pup into a truck. YOu couldnt pay me to beat an animal. uhh it gives me the shivers to think about this

[creamed_corn]

Don't judge other cultures until you've lived there and understand it.

Mr. E has been in China quite a bit if I recall. Ask him about it.

[Daftboy]

[BlackCelicaGT94]

Im not judging them as a whole..you cant get away from teh fact that that is the cruelest thing you could do to an animal. Thats not humane!

[creamed_corn]

Im not judging them as a whole..you cant get away from teh fact that that is the cruelest thing you could do to an animal. Thats not humane!

Yet every day thousands of cattle are paraded into slaughtering plants, have their spine crushed with a sledgehammer, and have their heads cut off.

Like I said, don't judge other cultures until you udnerstand their point of view.

[BlackCelicaGT94]

Ok i think ur taking this as a personal attack towards China where as im just talking about the simple act of beating an animal. I dont care who did it.

[saleeka]

"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"


"Don't judge other cultures until you've lived there and understand it."



please explain to me what it is about their culture that makes it ok to PHYSICALY BEAT any animal to death... I see no paralel corolation between the two whatsoever... Not only that, they are doing that over the FEAR of rabies that have killed eight people... Eight... Honelstly, your rational in this situation makes me think of the rational during wartime Nazi Germany... It was the culture's opinion of the time to irradicate human beings on a multitiude of differences compared to the true "ayrian" germans simply because they were different from that stereotype, and they used cultural preceptive fear to justify the mass exodus of those different... How is a fear or rabies different? there are many more RESOPNSIBLE ways of taking care of this problem...

This post has been edited by saleeka: Aug 3, 2006 - 12:48 AM

[Shocker]

They eat dog over in china also its a coulteral thing..and when i went i actually ate som dog and to my surprise it wanst that bad..
But i will never kill a domesticated animal.Or any other unless it will be eaten...
that doesnt include bugs thoe cuz i kll them daily

This post has been edited by Shocker: Aug 3, 2006 - 1:07 AM

[Jen]

WTF MAN. My dogs are like, my sons and daughter to me. I'd castrate someone who'd harm my babies.
This disgusts me. Absolutely terrible.

[jdg371]

*removed* by me

This post has been edited by jdg371: Aug 3, 2006 - 7:42 AM

[Jen]

I thought the whole eating dogs/cats thing was a myth. Harsh reality.

[jdg371]

I thought the whole eating dogs/cats thing was a myth. Harsh reality.

no myth there.

[Mynzeyes]

raising cattle for the production of milk and beef is a common practice in many cultures.

china ordered the massacre of 50,000 dogs, because 3 people died of rabies. 360 of the 200,000 people were simply bit by a dog. that's only .18% of the population. also, it's their own fault they don't use rabies vaccinations. and, if they are going to go around killing dogs, shouldn't they go around and kill all the other animals that have rabies by the thousands? seems like they are trying to control something at the latest step, instead of eliminating the cause of it.

i think it's ok to judge a culture based on the fact that it not only beats domesticated animals to death in front of their owners, offers their owners mere cents to 'do it for them', and forces people to abort and kill babies because of their communistic government. also, because of this baby rule, and the fact that men are more highly regarded, baby girls are being killed so that the family can have males.

i realize moralities and ideals differ from culture to culture, but i doubt in any culture this should be deemed as 'right'. and when you say "you should live in the culture before you judge," well, i don't have to. i know that many MANY people in that culture we're speaking of don't agree with this. how can you after your children are killed, and pets are beaten to death in front of your eyes?

anyway, comparing the killing of cattle for food and market and the beating of pets in front of owners' eyes is completely ignorant. it's not that they killed thousands of animals, it's that they killed thousands of DOMESTICATED animals. people's property. their family members. all cattle are is a number. that's why it's different.

[soulshadow]

I ran over a cat this mourning with my 6gc. I went squish and cruck. That was the end of the fat cats 9 lives.

China is a poor country Im suprised they didn't eat there dogs after they killed them.....or perhaps they did.

So who can offord to buy a gun, ammo, and go around aiming at dogs?
If you were dirt poor, and yes dirt probbaly has more value then the human lives in china. You would go around beating dogs for a mere $.63. Its better than starving your a55 off for days and days and days.

The people did what they did cause it was the only way for them to survive.

[CelicaBuddy]