China: Animal cruelty and abuse in China-Horror upon horror
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YOUR HELP IS NEEDED TO WIN THIS FIGHT
China's non-exsistant stance on stopping animal cruelty
This Hub-page will not be for the feint hearted but will hopefully help to publicise China's terrible treatment of animals.
PLEASE BE WARNED THAT THERE ARE UPSETTING IMAGES ON THIS HUBPAGE
One of the first zones I created at Helium.com was to highlight animal cruelty, in particular cruelty to dogs. When I first joined hub-pages it was initially in order to promote an English animal charity which was finding that the economic downturn was seriously affecting its funds.
I have long been passionate about the welfare of animals. This means farm and wild animals and well as those domesticated as pets. My two rescue dogs suffered much pain and suffering in their early days at the hands of cruel individuals. Such cruelty needs to be acknowledged so that it can be addressed and removed.
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. However there was worse to come. I knew that China had a dismal performance on the world stage as far as human rights went but did not realise that it currently has no laws in place to protect animals or aid their welfare.
This Hub is not designed to offend nor simply shock for the sake of it. I can assure readers that I could have displayed far worse images than those included in this hub. I just feel that if this subject is not given wide scale publicity it will stay buried out of sight and sound of anyone who can change it.
If you find this hub to distressing please do not click onto the YouTube videos. However if you feel moved, try to add to one or two of the petitions that are online or take some sort of positive action against this barbaric treatment of animals in China.
Posted in 2006/7 things may hopefully have changed by time you read this hub.
SHAME ON YOU CHINA
The treatment of Animals in China.
China may like to flatter itself, and its people, by considering it to be modern and at the forefront of advances, in this, the 21st Century, however with their lack of human and civil rights for their people they certainly have a long way to go. China's treatment of animals makes their position even worse. It takes them back to barbaric days when ignorance often led to animal cruelty.
The Chinese that enjoy the Horse Fighting events will readily tell you that they are traditional fights which have been long established. I suppose it is a bit like fox hunters and bear baiters in the past, in our countries. However just because these types of entertainment were enjoyed years ago does not mean that they have any place in the 21st Century.
With education and civilisation people should be more aware of what is acceptable and what is not. These days there is so much that we can use as entertainment without having to resort to animal torture, for pleasure. Perhaps China has little entertainment but even that does not justify its behaviour.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 seems oblivious to the modern world. They seem to offer reasons for their barbaric behaviour which they think are acceptable. The reasons given why live animals were thrown to tigers was:-
- To train the tigers for the wild.
- So that the tigers could hunt their own food.
However this is a nonsense. The setting of a cage with a captive meal does not simulate the wild at all. The fact that there is a crowd of humans loving the whole experience just makes sickening news.
Now I will try and be sensitive in this hub. I do not want to frighten people to death but I do want to shock readers into action. There may be little that we can do but we can make ourselves be heard. With petitions, letters to our politicians, mailings to the Chinese embassies in our countries and making sure that members of the public, in places such as the USA and the UK are fully informed.
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.
Animal Olympics, and more cruelty in China
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IN CONCLUSION
With such a vast country as China, eradicating animal cruelty and improving animal welfare will be difficult and take time This is no excuse though. They need to make a start. For God's sake it is 2009 not 1209.
Believe me if you look around the Internet, for example, there are many terrible sights to see regarding animal cruelty in China. I have no doubt that there are a handful of enlightened individuals living in China who feel uneasy about such animal treatment. I have shied away from anything too explicit on this hub. This is because I do not want any sick individuals enjoying the sad stories on this hub and neither do I want to offend anyone. Bear in mind though that we should not simply turn a blind eye to such goings on. By doing so we are almost condoning the behaviour and we are definitely enabling it to continue.
As of yet China has no legislation in place to protect animals or prosecute those committing acts of animal cruelty. Well it is about time that they did, is all I can say about that.
Spread the word about China and its terrible treatment of animals and SHOUT OUT AGAINST it whenever you can.
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The dreadful fur trade in China
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I watch no video I see no pictures its too traumatizing and since I've heard about the SICK EVIL DEPRAVED asians atrocious abuse of my favorite animals I have been so traumatized with nightmares and unable to live life with the joy I used to. WHY AREN"T WE CONTACTING OBAMA THE GOVERNMENT AS A GROUP AND REALLY STOPPING THIS???????? WHY ARE WE DEALING WITH HATEFUL EVIL SICK CHINA when we know what they are doing??????? LEts band together and voice our horror and refusal to buy goods from these sicko evil heartless monsters! these animals are lives that are valuable and precious and those asains are nothing but murdering scum!! Please lets not just talk about it lets stop it!!!!!! contact me so we can take action!
I fear you have assessed it right littlejoe.
Thanks to you all for visiting this Hub. It does not make for easy reading but we should all be aware of such cruelty
I did not even look at photos.I think chinese are uncivilized thugs.Wait till the fit hits the shan in the US from our dealings with them.Everything we buy here is made in china and they have no moral compass.They only care about making money.Stuff in pet food from them have killed our pets.Lead in childrens toys.We still buy and buy...when we should be boycotting and boycotting.At this point if we tried not to buy chinese made products we would have to go without a lot and Americans wont do that.Google articles on Foxconn computer factories and the suicide nets. How can u.s. be so far in bed with this atrocious country where even thier people do not have basic human rights.Harvesting organs from political prisoners for sale on "black market"ie. rich folk who need a liver transplant.We are part of the problem here in the us.The government is so crooked. We indirectly encourage all this gross behavior by buying chinese made products.buy american or do without.We are in deep dooo dooo.My general feelings are that human beings are a curse on the animal world and we pretty much destroy any thing we have contact with.Including each other.I love my dog extra everyday for all the animals that are abused or neglected in this world. And I tell him so.
STOP cruelty towards ALL animals NOW and put the people in jail who commit these horrible crimes. SHAME ON YOU ALL !
Cannot believe how much there is going on in terms of animal abuse right now and how completely shambolic the justice system is. If these things were happening to humans the sickos would be caught and given life, but because its an animal its a short sentence because humans think they are the ultimate being. Its disgusting!!!! These people who abuse animals, especially the cases you have described, in my opinion deserve a lifetime of solitary confinement. How can humans be so terrible? I just don't understand how they are allowed to live i really don't. And the people defending eating cats and dogs, sorry but i would rather kill myself than do that my life is no more valuable than theirs. We have taken in many stray cats some left in terrible conditions and i hope to hell the people that left them in such conditions are suffering right now.
LOS CHINOS Y ORIENTALES EN GENERAL TIENEN UN LARGO HISTORIAL DE CRUELDAD , MALTRATO Y ASESINATOS CONTRA LOS ANIMALES . SON GENTE EXTREMADAMENTE CRUEL , LA MAYORIA .
it is not just in china that these atrocities are committed. recently i have been traveling around thailand, and i was at the shop in the village where i was staying, then the shop owner grabbed a young puppy from under the table, and beat the poor thing to death in front of my friend and i, clearly enjoying it. she was confused afterwards about the fact that i was upset!
this is brutal. listen them laugh as they prod a living fish with chopsticks and proceed to eat it alive.
my experience living in china has shown that the most important thing to a chinese person is their own personal gain no matter what it costs. that means torture for their own pleasure or cheating you for a bit of cash.
Jack it is terrible. Although this hub was created sometime ago little has changed
i never knew how bad it was before i saw this
It may be hard to believe Melissa but I deleted the worst of the comments.Yes it is a deep issue. Remember though the cruelty shown in this hub is not for food.I think you forgive the people of China too easily. Plenty of the worst of this cruelty is done in the name of entertainment. If they want to claim they are civilised beings this must change. Using the excuse of poverty for all of this will not wash. Watching a video showing Chinese children laughing in fun whilst a live animal is literally fed to the wild animals is a disgrace.
Disappointing to see so many racist comments...
Animal abuse is a emotionally charged issue but if you come from a poverty stricken country and havent had the PRIVLIDGE to worry about animal rights because you can barely afford to feed YOURSELF, how can you judge. Its a very serious issue but its deeper then just laying blame on people.
Large number of animals die to starvation, disease, and so on because there are so many of them compacted into a small area. They are also dangerous to people if they become too aggressive and so on. With a limited economy as is in China as well and so many of the people are trying to find a way to make money.
Also, feeding live animals to animals that normally hunt is not much of an abuse because it is the natural cycle of life. But it is abuse when they use pain and torture to train the animals, that I do not condone.
if it isnt cats and dogs its sharks.tigers,rhinos,etc..selfish bunch of ugly mongs...may more natural disasters come your way,
Boycott all things made in China. I've stopped buying things altogether except for basic necessities, just because everything else seem to be made in China. Boycott them and boycott any company that sells anything made with fur. Don't support the fur trade in any way.
But China is not the only country that is evil and barbaric in the way their treatment of animals.
Please, if becoming vegan is too extreme for you, at least go vegetarian for the sake of the defenceless, innocent and gentle farm animals.
Susanne you cannot say that although I know where you are coming from. It is not the fault of all the nation
Stop the hipocrisy and go vegan before you judge China, Korea or other countries.
apart from sign a pettition what else can i/we do??? i want to help!!
I hate CHINA
I would expect just as much from a people that would let a toddler die on the stree after being run over by a vehicle, multiple times, whilst onlookers and passers-by do nothing. But hey! I'm all for "multiculturalism" so I guess it's up to me to give in to those ways and accept them.....Right?
China, Japan, Korea, Romania and Ukraine god damn.stop the massacre of animals.
ITS WRONG TO DO THIS TO THESE ANIMALS. I WILL HELP AS MUCH AS I CAN TO STOP THIS?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am not sure what links you mean but have tried to amend. Sorry for the lateness but have been on vacation
Horrible, terrible, and deplorable... but why does a page about animal cruelty in China link to 'related articles' about the Sirius Black "Padfoot" dog being adopted out, a Two-faced cat making the Guinness World Records, and two surfers helping a Great White Shark? None of those are in any way cruel to those animals, with the exception of the potentially exploitative kitty - but even that's dubious. So... maybe you should check what you're linking to in the related articles, or Hub should.
I believe in karma, for every wrong we do it will come back to haunt us. There is something seriously wrong with this society. May they rot in hell. I,m sure they will never sleep well at night. May the souls of these innocent spirits haunt them forever.
Based on my riligion, the gates of heaven are closed to the people that turture animals, and on the gudgement day the tortuerd animals will be able to speak and revile the people how torured them.
(Islam)
i cant belive it they may think that it religon or something but its not!!!!
china is a hell for the animals we should take out all the animals and find them a good places to live.
i hate Chinese people they are stuipd
i will gladly go to china and slaughter these people that hurt these animals sign me up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Very touching, I can not find the words to express how upsetting this is. It is so horrible how so many can just stand by and let this happen! There should be an animal rights society established in China, and world wide to protect animals everywhere. There is no reason for these animals to be treated like this! Thanks for sharing and creating this hub!
What can we do to stop this evil from happening to cats and dogs? Is there anything we can do?? I am an animal lover (especially cats) and don't understand how people can be so cruel and evil. I'd like to stick the Chinese in a cage!!
What a shame! - Welch eine Schande! - CHINA! Stop it!
Ich hoffe China geht unter mit all den schlechten Menschen die Tiere quälen! Verrotten sollen sie alle in der Hölle diese "Menschen"!!!
stupid people.go f**k yourselves ! I hope you`ll go to hell.
Idiot comments are always deleted on Hubpages :)
To all you douche bags defending these sick fuck people....It is not about eating dogs..IT IS ABOUT THE SICK TORTURE of these animals before they kill them. The Chinese believe the more they abuse, torture and inflict suffering the better the meat is. Just because you are going to eat something does not mean you have to make it suffer. By the way these are the same sick fucks that eat HUMAN? BABY SOUP
China is where they skinned the furry alive, for their fur, remember. I first became apprised of that right here on ATS. Way back in '08 or '07, thereabouts. Lets just hope that the massive earthquakes they had, (remember that one, it was really massive and catastrophic?) killed alot of those 'people' who were doing that. It would make me smile, if I knew that for sure.
I am disgusted I seriously started to cry just looking at those pictures, pictures can say so much. How would they like to be beaten up and being left cold and alone, dying.
Do these Chinese people (people?...) have any decency or even the slightest bit of feeling at all? Or are they just brutes to steer well away from ? The fear and the plight in some of the animals'eyes as they were about to get skinned or otherwise killed was heart-rendering. We even spotted a gentle Golden Retriever amongst them, one of our favourite breeds, and watched in horror as sweet, obviously very domestic, cats meowed helplessly as they lay crammed in rusty cages on the way to the atrocities awaiting them. An Alsatian even trying to defend itself grasping the vicious iron tongs grabbing its neck before being butchered for 'meat'. It showed more courage on the dog's part than its tortioners may ever master! Need I mention the pain and despair in the eyes of bears in Chinese bear-bile farms?? All this is too ghastly for words. We can only hope animal abusers aren't human, their behaviour makes you feel ashamed of belonging to the human race! No more export of live animals to Asia please! If you still do not understand what I mean: kindly watch another video of a cat getting skinned alive by Chinese children... Sickening.
Those abject torturers,wherever they belong, are quite simply ignorant. And should be judged in court in a so-called civilised world. For ignorance isn't always quite bliss; particularly for the animals...
In reply to Tom's comment:
Seeing those appalling video's again - and their number is endless...- you CANNOT HELP wishing all those Chinese midgets undergo the same fate as they have their animal victims suffer, ONE BY ONE. Abusers needn't be midgets or from China: abusers everywhere should suffer the same fate. Is this Earth, or is it hell? You could be forgiven for wondering...
Spoonfed on such horrors, Asian youth is bound to perpetrate the tradition. To the point of showing inhumanity to animals abroad sometimes too; cf. one Andrew Quay Wee Meng recently, a 25 yr old student from Singapore in Brisbane, who beat a tame Ibis to death in a park as it was begging for a few crumbs from his sandwich. - This sort of thing happens all over Western countries too, and not solely at the hands of students from South-East Asia... The difference being sanctions do exist and can be applied in the West, whilst no such thing in Asia apart from India. - Where are all the political pressure groups, where is Obama, where - and how much longer - need we sit and wait before something is truly being done? Cannot the poor, who might rely on cruelty as well as 'tradition' to live, be offered alternative jobs and receive more education? It is the duty of governments to care! How come the import of fur and meat products cannot be banned altogether? How come there are no global rules on trade, on hunting, on zoos? Alternatives and sanctions ARE possible. No wonder there are so many wars if ignorance and the ruthless exploitation of vulnerable beings - human or animal - are allowed to continue! IF (to quote L. da Vinci, a rather more civilised person and a genius...) "the time will come when men looks upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men": starting at the roots, please have that moment dawn sooner than later. Globally. - Only politicians and diplomats can achieve this.
Yes, practical steps are needed; economic sanctions for a start, and not looking the other way because 'Olympics' and other niceties are on. It's no use wishing those state-legitimated killers undergo the same fate: it will never happen. One shudders at the thought of having to share a planet with such monsters anyway. Western governments have a couple of years left before the Olympics in Brazil: hopefully there will be a couple of sterner international laws by then to prevent a repeat of the process there. I don't much care if Asia is a different continent: brutes can be stopped in the US and Europe: how come they cannot be stopped in Asia? - The sooner China will revert to Chinese Buddhism the better! It may not solve everything but it may help... And the plight of people like Gandhi, the Dalai Lama and many, many others (Einstein, Tolstoy, Albert Schweizer among them) will not have been in vain.
As Mahatma Gandhi put it:
"The greatness of a country and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated"...
In the meanwhile innocent creatures with as much right to live as you and I, go on suffering beyond belief. Simply because they are alive, and were on this planet first, long before man appeared. Everything was peaceful then... - LAWS are indeed needed; so is the courage to talk openly about the problem, at political level.
I can hardly bear to watch these ghastly videos, they haunt me for days. But HOW COME that, everything considered and all this being universally known, no more laws are being implemented INTERNATIONALLY in favour of protecting animals? Isn't the lack of such laws a threat to all civilisation? Or don't I quite grasp the meaning of the word? Talk of 'cultural differences' being responsible is a solution of facility, unendurable lip service...
I don't even know what to do with the pain I'm feeling over this right now....I feel so powerless. Is there really anything we can do? When it comes to money it's a tough battle to fight. The Chinese see animals as having no value..it's obvious by these pics...we may be able to create laws however, their attitude and desensitized way of being exists deep within in generations. I think these videos need to target Hollywood actors....they respond emotional to these things and verbally...they also have many financial resources that will help to make a difference. Oprah? Can letters and pictures be sent to her? Any and all high profile stars!!!!
This is terrible , shameful, what these people do to animals is horrific and needs to be stopped!!!!!! im 12 and chose to be a vegitarian despite people telling me I need to eat meat have those people seen how veal cows are treated?!?! I donate money to shelters and cry when I even hear the mention of a kill shelter but my best friend, a nova scotia duck tolling retriever was hit by a car (which are also made for human pleasure) and will adopt a new dog from a kill shelter to save its life. They are not just pets and if you consider them animals then we may as well be called a dog or a cat because we are animals too!
OMG...horrors! Where do I sign!
god will have a special place in hell for you all!!1
And Cameron, along with Boris Johnson are sucking up to the Chinese ...... yet they don't have the courage to speak out. If there were a GOD (which there is not) I'd say COME DOWN and help the defenceless animals. I hope those who do this are living a hell existence during this life-time.
Lily Pierre....YOU ARE RIGHT...DON'T BUY DON'T BUY. Make the effort to look at the labels.
I keep telling People but they don't listen. WE have a very Powerful weapon to stop this... One that is even more powerful than words or petitions. IT's BOYCOTTING. DON"T BUY "MADE IN CHINA" or any other country that Asian or otherwise that tortures animals. I know it's difficult. I do go out of my way and pay more to find products that are made here or elsewhere. They do turn out to be better products anyway. By doing this, you'll be also helping to keep China from having more power and control over the U.S. They desire is to control us all. We must bring our companies back here, our jobs back here. NO more OFFShoring either. BOYCOTT!! IF WE could get EVERYONE TO JOIN IN THIS, it would WORK. HURT them where their money comes from... that's US!!!!
Think things like this are barbaric and should be stopped like NOW poor animals dont ask to be brought into this world and dont deserve treatment like this. The animals that do such things should be hung,drawn and quartered
SHAME ON YOU PEOPLE, YOU ARE ALL COWARDS! YOU VIOLATE INNOCENT ANIMALS, BECAUSE YOU ARE TOO COWARDICE TO DO ANYTHING ELSE!!!!!!!!! YOU ARE NOT CIVILIZED - YOU ARE NOTHING MORE THAN MONSTERS - SHAME - SHAME - SHAME ...
Good job of drawing attention to this terrible situation. My wife and I try to make sure there are no animal skins or furs on anything that we buy that has been made in China. There are a lot of products with cat fur adorning them for instance, and it sometimes proves tricky avoiding these products and when given them it is troublesome because of the obvious conflict of what is meant to have been a loving gift but really represents an awful reminder of the sad life or lives of the animals that supplied their skins or fur.
On a more personal note, you were one of the first to leave a comment on a Hub I wrote shortly after joining HubPages and had wanted to thank you for taking the time to leave it. While still feeling like a newcomer after two months, I'm a little more up to speed and wanted to let you know how much those few words meant and still mean. A belated thank you and sign on as a follower of a kind person as well as a writer of heartfelt Hubs.
Thanks again.
all i can say is we need to do something about this now!
Well what can i say, it's like we are living in the dark ages. The chinese are the worst of the lot, if I had my way I'd bomb the lot of them then at least the animals can survive.
Hi there, Ethel. I'm only 12 years old, but extremely intrested in fighting against animal cruelty. Honestly, it is disgusting and just plain inhumane. What do you reccomend someone of my age do? Thank you in advance.
This is horriable,all those people should be locked up.
Anita, I do agree with some of what you wrote....i truly believe karma is a powerful thing, or at least I can HOPE that karma is because ANYONE who gets enjoyment or feels that they have a right to torture other creatures deserve nothing but the same treatment that they give to animals done to them. I am not a believer in reincarnation, but if it did exist, it would only be fair for any person like these barbarians who torture animals to come back in another life as a dog, cat, pig, cow etc whichever the animal is only to have the pleasure of the same treatment done to them.
I must admit though,as a vegetarian for the past 17 years, I find it hypocritical of people who pick and choose which animals "deserve" humane treatment while ignoring other animals well being like farm animals. For instance, pigs are intelligent animals who are just as smart, if not more smart than dogs, yet they are beaten, kicked, punched, slit open, and often die a slow agonizing death in slaughterhouses each day(video doesn't lie). Turning a blind eye or choosing to remain ignorant of the facts so that a person doesn't have to think about how the meat on their plate got there is just as sickening to me as the above information. Humans who feel that because they are at the "top of the food chain" that it somehow gives them the right to treat other creatures however they would like is absurd and just untrue. Killing an animal for food is VERY different than torturing and being inhumane before killing an animal for food..
This isn’t a matter of whether Western people agree with Asians eating dogs and cats, it is a matter of HUMANE slaughter….regardless of what the animal, all creatures have an inherent right not to suffer. If you are going to kill an animal for meat, there is ALWAYS a choice to do it in a humane way to minimize torture and pain. Boiling a cat or dog alive, anally electrocuting them, and SKINNING them while they are ALIVE is unacceptable regardless of where in the world you live. But, it makes me wonder, all of the people on this site who are outraged by the way dogs and cats are brutally treated and killed, why do you give such understanding and empathy to those animals, yet eat cows, pigs, chickens, etc? I find it hypocritical that we place more "worth" to some animals and not others. If you were to go to a cow/pig slaughterhouse in the US, you would see barbaric, inhumane, disgusting treatment of animals (pigs especially) that are just as smart as dogs....As a vegetarian of 16 years, it often upsets me the denial that many people choose to live in regarding how the meat on their plate got there.
This is UNACCEPTABLE TO GIVE SUCH CRUELY, TO TREAT THEM LIKE TIS! SUCH INNOCENT, POOR ANIMAL CHILD. SHAME ON IN YOU!!!
Hey everyone please donate to this animal rescue site in Beijing http://www.animalschina.org/en/donate/
THey have taken in over 1000 dogs which were suppose to go to the slaughtor. Support them to fight against animal cruelty Read the page and try to find out how to donate.
Hey Lauren I am with you all the way.
I love animals. What you can do is donate money when your older to trustworth animal socieites protest against cruelty not only in china but also korea and also plz if you see dog abuse near your area of living plz call 911 immideately
Loretta
No one is questioning that animals dont die in order to be eaten by other animals, however we dont go around clubbing animals to death with large stones, we do it humanely, its called "progression within society". I am sure if you went around asia and asked all the humans there how they would like to die, they would choose bullet or lethal injection rather than being beaten to death with a baseball bat or left to die from infection from a wound....
This is extreamly wrong!! they cant treat animals like this .... when i first read this site... it made me start to cry... do they think that animals have no feelings,or that they are not important... ai i just cant belive how evil people can be... =(
thank you to who ever made this site, it really made me aware of this cause, and when i am older , i will stop this cruelty some how, i will do watever it takes!!!!
its so wrong to do that why should they be treated differently
hi im 11 and i am in school writting this.
some people think that animals, only get punished because, they want "your" atetion.
well your wrong think back through and wonder why anoimals killed or tryed to kill us.?
its not there fault they are hungry, sore or something they dont want to get punished if they dont have a reason
gosh people these days i am wondering whyh they do it in the first place i feel really bad if i did that..
but yet people can stop hitting there children but whats so different about animals how do you think they feel about being abused.. ?
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Thanks for sharing your thoughts. There is much sense in them
Hi all. Cruelty goes on day in day out in every country in every walk of life between humans and animals, animals on animals and humans on animals. The need to eat animals is eternal, whether it be as an animal eating another animal or a human eating chicken, steak or fish. We all in the real world accept this a normal. However where the line gets blurred is the way the animals meet their fate, whatever the purpose of thier death. I as an omnivore, and a passionate pet owner, believe every animal on this planet has a right to exist on this planet. If it be a cow produced for beef or milk, a chicken produced for eggs or meat. Where I do take exception is the what can only be described as sheer abuse of animals, and I arent going to pick on just Japan and China, but all the countries on this planet that do not have laws in place to protect thier animals from unecessary suffering in the hands of people that either dont know any different because of tradition or lack of education. The human race can only be judged by itself, until someone stands up for the animal kingdom and educates the world that suffering doesnt need to take place then we will tread water
Hani do you mean of reading about it or the cruelty?
Chrissy thanks for your input. I have sent your hub profile a message.
Thank you. I did locate the Chinese embassy in the US. They have several locations. I would like to start a letter writing campaign and would like your help. I have been talking to some friends and one said 'yes, I knew" but when I asked what they did about it - again 'oh I didn't do anything'
I find that totally unacceptable as Americans and Human Beings that we can let this go on. To not do anything in irresponsible.
I also found a video of a US soldier torturing a puppy. I am sending that video to PETA. Hopefully they will investigage
Chrissy that is terrible. Is there no end to their cruelty? Fellow Hubber Habee wrote a piece in her local paper, I think. Google chinese embassy and you will come up with the most appropriate embassy for you.
Currently the best weapon seemws to be making sure that as many people as possible know just what is going on in China
Where do we send letters to the Chinese Embassy?? It's great to blog and chat, but action works. We could flood the embassy with letters.
Can the ASPCA get involved in this?? I just saw another video emailed to me where the Chinese are using dogs as live shark bait after the dog is skinned alive he is thrown into the water bleeding to attract sharks. Something has to be done
theres nothing wrong about eating a dog or a cat, cuz its the same as eating a chicken, but the way asians do it, is so cruelly, the only peaceful and animal loving people in china are the Buddhist monks
What a sick race !! It's not the fact that they eat animals. We do too!! And conditions in western slaughterhouses are pretty horrible. But in China it seems like the customer demands that the animal be tortured and killed in the most painful manner they can think of before they are killed . The worst is they think it's great to see the suffering and enjoy watching the animals enduring an agonising long drawn out death then they go home licking their lips and eat their prize with great enjoyment. I'm scared to be sharing the same planet as these people!! The only thing we can do is to hit them where it hurts, their economy. BOYCOTT ALL CHINESE PRODUCTS !!!! NOW!!!
On the whole I shall be deleting further comments. Thanks to all those who added to the debate, especially those who had genuine thoughts to express.
One should abandon all the animal products as much as possible, be it flesh, fur, leather.
Having said that i feel there are lot many people out there who care a damn about animals and their sufferings, i ask those guys to imagine that human beings can fell trap to a superior race, and are subjected to similar torture. I feel that even killing a mosquito should be avoided.
Reality enjoy doing something with your life. I can only wonder why you bothered to write so much
THanks bebe and Zsuzsy. I wrote this a year ago almost and would like to think things have improved but I am not hopeful
This is just awful... how do they get away with this?
Too horrible for words.
thanks for sharing
regards Zsuzsy
wow this is so horrifyying and sad these people should be ashamed for what they have done beating inicent this needs to end now and forever
I would think you are never too young to express outrage at such cruelty. However under 16 year olds may want to discuss this with their parents or teacher.
Very effective, but upsetting hub - cruelty to animals is not acceptabe and needs to be stopped.
How old do you have to be able to sign the petition?
Let's hope so Sarah
Holle there are many around the world. You can email press@chinese-embassy.org.uk
Perhaps you could start your own petition?
The London embassy is at:
49 Portland Place, London W1B 1JL
what is the address of the chinese ambassity
What they're doing to the animals is really disgusting. I recently read on http://blog.petaasiapacific.com/legislation/chinaa that China is implementing its first animal protection law.
For a country notorious for its brutality towards animals such as routinely selling the flesh of dogs, cats, scorpions, starfish, etc on streets to be eaten, it’s a big step for China and its citizens. I must say it’s a relief to read about its new law. Animals feel pain just as much as we do, and deserve to be treated decently. I hope this will be the first step towards greater animal liberation in China!
It made me cry when I wrote and still does if I read it all again. Thanks for the visit and the link I will reciprocate :)
I knew reading this hub was going to make me cry my eyes out. All of these innocent animals. What is wrong with people!!!! This makes me so outraged! I highly doubt if animals ruled the world that they would be treating humans this way. They are loving and forgiving creatures yet mankind insists on abusing them. This is why I prefer animals over people!! I'm going to link this to my Human Fur hub about the pet fur trade in China. This is definitely a five star hub.
"A nation can be judged by how it treats its animals." - Gandhi
Nathan thanks for dropping by. I totally understood your comments but have decided to delete them due to the swearing sorry. I do however agree with what you said
The same observation disgusted Paul McCartney when he visited Beijing. He saw how dogs and cats were served in the eateries over there and pledged never to return. I don't blame him. Great blog. I hope everyone who eats dogs and cats get rabies.
@Mitch, there are times (not all the time) when I am tempted to share your opinion.
Jo the one thing you must do is keep a perspective. I mean that you have done all that you can and are aware of these goings on. You can help make others aware also.
It breaks my heart to see such cruelty also. Take care and look after yourself. Sometimes when you have been in pain a long time it is easy to get depressed and sadness touch you too personally.
It has only been in the last week that I have realised what has been going on in terms of China and their lack of animal rights/ the fur trade in China, Finland and America.
I have been in agonising pain for 3 years due to atypical neuralgia and I think that because I'm in constant pain it makes me more sensitive to the images and footage I have seen. I can't understand how someone could cause such deliberate unnecessary pain.
It sickens me so much and I have had trouble sleeping, I have cried so many tears over this and feel utterly helpless. I wanted to put a stop to it immediately but obviously couldn't and am now sitting with a lot of anger and disbelief that human beings can be so barbaric.
I have signed so many petitions and offered to be part of a letter writing team with Animal Defenders International but I don't know what else to do. I pray for a time to come when this stops.
Thanks for visiting Jessica
The world is the world "we" view.
And i feel good that there are some people who view this world differently and get pleasure in living against the wrongs of the society.
Thanks for answering my posts and sharing your views.
Best of luck for your journey!
Well Jessica I feel sorry that this how you view the world. Still we are all entitled to our opinions :)
Millions of years then and we are still barbarians? Perhaps some are but hopefully they are in a minority.
I still stand by my feelings about China and animal cruelty.
I don't believe that humans are civilized. Do you?
Human deeds are much more "uncivilized" than animals. If we rank all breeds of living beings in the scale of "how much civilized they are", i think humans will be at the last position.
Again i say that this is because of nature. Nature has given the power to human beings to show its superiority over other beings. It has given us so much power that we have turned into beasts.
No offense, but this is only my view of looking at this event.
You are entitled to your opinion Jessica. I know Humans commit atrocities left right and centre to all and sundry but that does not mean it is right. My opinion is that if we flatter ourselves that we are civilised we should behave as if we are.
Animals are easy targets for cruel people.
Humans have always been very selfish. They always try to get rid of things which get into their way.
Humans not only kill animals, but they also kill other humans and it is "nature".
I am not trying to oppose anyone here but i think that this whole event is natural. This is only one way of showing an expression of the "mankind" in general.
So awful. It's a really bad side of the culture i'm afraid.
Healthy debate is good but just be polite please
Hey Mitch R don't be so rude, not all Asians are doing like these Chinese people do... I thought this is a family site and yet you consider Mitch R's comment. Well Chinese are Chinese they have their own tradition I'm not saying that I'm not against what they are doing to these innocent animals however the way you express your feeling it's absurb.
I DETEST Chinese people. They are EVIL; if they were not this would stop!
The chinese and most asian countries are the sickest "humans" in existence. They can all go to hell
I woudl like to support in ant way I can.
Habee the adress is different in each country. I found this webpage for you, http://www.china-embassy.org/eng/, but the contact us page has been deleted. What a surprise.
This UK pages has the English Chines Embassy address and more http://www.chinese-embassy.org.uk/eng/sgxx/t27049.
For those interested the address is:- Chinese Embassy Address: 49-51 Portland Place London W1B 1JL
Thnaks for your support
I wrote a similar piece in the form of a letter to the editor of my local paper. Do you have the address of the Chinese embassy? I want to start a letter-writing campaign!
Thanks for writing this difficult hub, Ethel.
Hi Mom yes as I have rescue dogs it breaks my heart too. Keep up the good work. See you at Info Barrel also :)
This is appalling - I honestly did not realize the extent of this horror!! Thank you for opening my eyes!
My aunt runs a no kill animal rescue out of Glendale, AZ for cats and dogs. The animals that she takes in are with her until they are adopted or pass on naturally - unless they are stricken with a painful and fatal disease!
A good majority of the animals that have come into her care are due to animal abuse, neglect and uncaring puppy mills.
My heart goes out to these animals and please I'd love to hear about any petitions out there focused on protecting these animals! I can be found on InfoBarrel under the same username!
animals should not be treated like this
we must respect their emotions and feelings like we respect human beings
these people should be executed. if they can do this to animals they do not deserve to live on this world
No wonder you are bitter. The UK is tightly in the grip of Chinese goods. Not dog food I HOPE. As consumes we are so obssessed with owning everything but paying peanuts we are so easily sucked into the trap. I know China have a dismal human rights record but felt I wanted to highlight their cruelty to animals. It so dreadful and probably unstoppable but every little effort may help.
Boycotting Chinese goods may be a way forward for me.
Thanks for sharing your persepctive and sad happenings GLA
Little more that can be added here.. I believe this is one topic MOST Americans agree on. We've always known about Chinas cruelty to any living thing that does not meet the Chinese govt. criteria of high value.. including many of their own people.. and every time we buy ANYTHING from China, we inadvertently condon their actions. Sadly, we've been sold out to China by our own Govt., and it is our children, grandchildren, pets, and wildlife that are/will pay the BIGGEST price.. Sorry. Don't mean to be vindictive. Thanks to the tainted dog food that our govt invited?/allowed? into our country from China, I lost the dearest dog that ever lived awhile back. I don't know who I blame more.. the Chinese govt., or our own for allowing it to happen HERE. And as if that weren't bad enough, shortly after the tainted petfood scandal, there was the baby that swallowed the little toy, and died the next morning from toxic poisoning ..again, the toy was made in China. What's with this country of ours?? Knowing of the Chinese inhumanitarian behaviour, why did our govt officials agree to do business with them?? Could it have anything to do with money... do you think?!?
and yes... I am bitter.
Cruelty in all of its many forms is terrible.
A good hub, nicely high lighted the cruelty of the 21st century not to speak the cruelty of ancient times.
I agreee loveofnight. Cruelty in all forms is not acceptable and, as animals are pretty much defenceless against us, it is terrible. Man made fibres are so good and plentiful these days there is no need to have to kill an animal so that you can wear its skin. Entertainment is readily available in all forms also and so using animals as a form of entertainment is just barbaric.
i've already started signing petitions to this effect.it is one thing when we hear about it and another when we see it for ourselves.to know that you may walk down the street with man's best friend around your neck is unspeakable.we must dig further and get at the source,the market that buys....cotton and man made materials can give you the same results that they are getting from their cruelty.i wonder how they sleep at night....STAY STRONG TO THE CAUSE
Thanks for your input Steve. We must keep informed and do what we can, I agree.
These people if you want to call the scumbags that !!! are very sick
This is one of the reasons I will not buy products made in china, yes it is possible to live without products from China, this takes a little work but it is well worth the time and this helps the U.S. economy !!!
Thanks Eternal. I am finding all too many of these upsetting stories. I do post them in the hope that people's awareness may eventually help stop such cruelty
Such a upsetting hub. As horrible as it is i'm glad you posted this hub, if these acts of cruality are not brough into public view than they will never be stopped.
thanks you
i cried i want to go to china and kill those people literally
Thanks Angie. Give Ruby a hug from me. Why not look at one of my happier hubs about my own dogs?
We all need to be aware of cruelty so that we change things but please do not chew yourself up about it.
i understand but every time i come on here it upsets me. yes we do all care other wise we would not be one here talkingabout how we disagree with all this. this is my opinion animals are just like humans they walk they go to the toilet the have feelin and im sure they have a life loving people that care for them.
my dog loves me she use to be in the police so if she think something is wrong then she will protect me just the way i would for her.
maybe i am to young to understand everything but i no one thing no in the world that loves dog as much as we do will ever understand why this is going on at all i no one ever will understand.
thankyou angie & ruby (the dog)
Angie , i wasnt blaming you i was just saying it because you have commented so much and i can see that you don't like people hurting animals , just that i hate people who do , do animal cruelty , and would love to help to stop all of this
i understand how you feel , its not nice at all , its even happening right now and would like to do the best i could to help with thisbut the people who come on this site do care for animals and the people who have commented , we all care
thankyou from bernie x
Angie, I do hope when you are full grown then, that you will be an animal welfare supporter and help stop such nastiness as dog fights. My local animal welfare charity has a juinor section where young people can get involved and make a difference.Be kind to animals it is the fair way.
excuse me i have nothing to do with a fish i have a dog and i love her so much no one can love her as much as i do (i am 14) and so are my friend and i would like bernie not to put blame on me over a fish i would rather have a dog i have had my dog for 1yr and 1mounth. the photos of the animals on here do upset me but i have see much worse as i had to watch dog fighting at one point in my life. nothing can ever upset me like that did.
tnx angie
Hello im 37years old , i have 3 dogs and love animals so much , i have always been against animal cruelty i don't see why they do it to animals but that (amy , savannah , angie) how old are you girls , i know your trying to help but saying something like that about a fish is not very nice , please look after your animals and treat them very well.
i have always loved my animals and always will , but to treat animals like this is just sick , animals deserve respect and they every animal should get it.
Thankyou - Bernie x
Ladies, can I ask how old you girls are? I ask this because I do not want to getting too upset about animal welfare. What you need to do is sign any petitions available, look after your pets well and make sure that when you are old enough you lobby your politician and the like about animal cruelty.
I am sorry to say that some cruelty will always go on but we can all do our best to stop it or at least report it.
amy i think you need to learn some manners fish are fish and dogs are more that what you think. you have a dog so learn something about what is going on and if what china does to dogs come over here they might kill your dog that is why we are trying to stop it. i dony understand how people find it so funny.
dear Ethel
sorry about the bad language, its just so disgusting how some one could do that to a harmless animal, i no i probably did the most swearing but i can truly not get my head around the fact that them sickos can do this kind of thing.
animals have feelings and this happens all over the world, not just to dogs and its so unfair. i think that something should be done about this. i mean why don't police do anything about it.
as for Amy your just absolutely pathetic. not being funny or out but dogs are so much more important than 1 fish. you even have a dog yourself so how cruel can you be at all. you need to learn some manners and have a bit of respect.
i think that cruelty to all animals in the world needs to stop!
something must be done about it.
thats all i have to say for NOW
thankyou savannah.
i have a fish thats has no more scales i only let my cat play with it for 20 mins and then i seen half of it under my bed i was crying all that night , whilst watching it wriggle around the carpet :( my mum said put some water on it but it was half dead anyway so there was no point ,, anyway its so cruel what they do to dogs , i would chop their heads off instead of the fishes head :'( i miss him so much
Thanks for dropping by guys. Beth100 the only thing I can say about the living artist is that in order to be true to his art he should tie himself up and undergo the same treatment. Using a poor creature for "his art" is just so cruel and only highlights his stupidity.
To condemn an animal to any of these barbaric treatments shows, in my mind, a lack of moral fibre, a cruel streak, ignorance and a lack of civilisation. I know it goes on all over the wrold but we need to fight to try and stop it.
Cruelty to animals in worldwide. In Costa Rica, an "artist" took a stray dog off the streets and tied him inside a studio. The dog was not given food or water. People walked by, but very few tried to stop this. The dog died of starvation 6 days later. The artist argues that this is "living art". The video link is on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-jIP8i1djg This cannot help but cause one to think how we can call ourselves civilized and humane.
Ethel, when I was in Herbin for the ice festival, in January this year, I went to the Siberian tiger park and saw them feed live chickens and goats to the tigers. They just dangle the live chicken from a pole suspended in the air, and the tigers jump up and hit them down or bit them off the pole, piece by piece. Really quite barbaric, but the Japanese tourists there went mad with their cameras, and one was going to pay for a live donkey....Many do keep dogs and cats in cages, but then others absolutely spoil their dogs and there are many shops selling very cute dog clothes. When I worked in Korea, we lived next door to a dog farm. We went to look and it's a certain breed of dog that is bred for the table and is fed only vegetables, no meat.
Excellent hub about a terrible reality people need to know about!
That's OK Angie I do understand. I have used similar lnguage about those that are cruel. I too think China is probably too different to enable us to influence them but we can but try.
Their record on human rights is no better Angie. Thanks for calling back, apology accepted :)
sorry about the bad languag as my friends and i can get our heads around why people find things like they do in china so amusing. i think that maybe words can not stop this i would do anything to help out the same as my friend would so what ever is aked we can answer thank you and sorry
Dear Savannah, Zoanne, Angie and Shannon thanks for stopping by. Unfortunately I have had to deny some of your comments due to the bad language. I do understand your feelings though.
As you all feel so strongly about this animal abuse please try and add to the petition etc. Currently the only weapon we have is words and sentiments which need to be expressed appropriately in order to be heard :)
As an animal lover I find China's stance of animal welfare appalling and can only hope that somewhere along the line China will become civilised.
PLEASE REMEMBER GIRLS THAT THIS IS A FAMILY SITE AND WE ARE CIVILISED-THANKS
''savannah'' stop swearing .. anyway on with the animal cruelty i think this is stupid animals dont deserve to be treated like this .. to the people that do this they can go and kill me before they do to anilmal but you ned to come over here to see the cops get them
oyeahh (H) x
I know Peggy. I was a bit tearful researching it. One of my dogs has a sore foot. He was laid at my feet with one of Hubby's socks on. I have had to hold it in place with a scrunchie.
Yet some people can do all of that. Unbelievable.
So very sad. Talk about inhumanity in action! This was hard to keep reading... Those of us who care about animal welfare need to keep the battle going by doing all we can to end things like this.
Copied twice for some reason. I'll add...your links are excellent.
I know Julie
Too distressing for words...
kim 2 weeks ago
i wish i could go over there and free all those animals probably get caught and put in prison with allsorts and so animals would still suffer. so sad i want to cuddle all those dogs and cats