PETA: China'ss Culture of Cruelty

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China's Culture of Cruelty

China's long history of animal abuse is back in the spotlight as one

Chinese county indiscriminately massacres every dog in sight-more

than 50,000 in total-some right in front of their families. This and

other appalling atrocities-such as feeding live sheep and chickens to

tigers in zoos and skinning conscious animals, including dogs and

cats, for their fur, which is then exported to the West-take place

because China has no animal protection laws.

 

Tens of Thousands of Dogs Are Being Clubbed, Poisoned, and Electrocuted

In a hideously cruel response to an outbreak of rabies in late July,

authorities in Mouding County in Southwest China ordered the killing

of more than 50,000 dogs, including 4,000 who were immunized against

the disease. Officials clubbed many animals to death in the street

right before their guardians' eyes. Animals who were not beaten

mercilessly died equally violent, gruesome deaths by poisoning or

electrocution.

 

PETA's offices have been inundated over the years with calls from

people around the world who are outraged by China's dog

" exterminations. " Eyewitnesses have noted that many dogs have died

slow, agonizing deaths in these mass slaughters, which illustrate the

nation's lack of adequate animal control plans. PETA's offers to

assist Chinese officials in implementing such plans-in order to avoid

drastic, widespread killings-have not been accepted.

 

Other Common Attrocities

* Chinese authorities pay citizens a 60-cent bounty for

each dog they kill. Surprised that this nation places a price on the

head of " man's best friend " ? Don't be. Dogs and cats are even killed

for their fur in China, as this undercover investigation, narrated by

Trent Reznor, reveals.

* With the world's largest population of sheep, lambs,

goats, and kids, China is the world's most prolific exporter of the

hides of these animals as well as those of cows. In 2004, Chinese

leather constituted more than one-third of all exported leather in

the world.

* China's live-animal markets are notoriously cruel.

Animals of many species-from cats, dogs, birds, and boars to deer and

even reptiles-are confined to wire cages in which they can barely

move. Their slaughter is no less depraved. Animals are routinely

skinned alive and hacked apart, piece by piece, until they bleed to

death.

* Wild animal parks housing tens of thousands of

animals conduct live feedings of lions and tigers so that visitors

can watch the gory spectacle.

* About 7,000 Asiatic black bears-also known as Moon

bears-are confined to tiny pens so small that they can't even move on

China's more than 200 bear-bile farms. Although alternatives to their

bile-which some people believe has healing properties-exist, bears

are still subjected to crude surgeries in order to implant catheters

or to create permanent holes in their abdomens.

* China supplies more than half the monkeys imported to

the U.S. for experiments, and that number has increased sevenfold in

the last 10 years.

 

You Can Help Stop This

 

Please forward this information to your friends and family, and urge

them to take action to bring the atrocities in China to an end.

 

Please contact China's ambassador and let him know that you and your

family will not look favorably upon China until it enacts and

enforces animal welfare laws:

 

His Excellency Zhou Wenzhong

Ambassador of the People's Republic of China

Embassy of the People's Republic of China

2300 Connecticut Ave. N.W.

Washington, DC 20008

202-328-2574

202-328-2582 (fax)

 

Please tell everyone you know about the horrors of the fur trade by

sharing this information with them and showing them this undercover

video footage.

 

Order PETA's anti-fur leaflets and posters to distribute outside

stores that sell fur and to share with friends, family members, and

coworkers who still wear fur

 

Shed your skin. Donate unwanted furs to PETA.

--

Kim Bartlett, Publisher of ANIMAL PEOPLE Newspaper

Postal mailing address: P.O. Box 960, Clinton WA 98236 U.S.A.

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