(CN): Need more reasons to hate China?//EU shark finning ban ineffective, campai

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Original Message Source: " Zelda " <zpenzel

 

 

Need more reasons to hate China?//EU shark finning ban ineffective,

campaigners

 

What is it in the culture of certain countries, the collective

consciousness, that allows such hideous inhumanity? that takes

pleasure and enjoyment from unspeakable cruelty and suffering?

 

We see all sorts of abuse and horrifying acts perpetrated on innocent

animals in every society...much of which is a reflection of poverty,

ignorance, indifference, even misguided " expediency " . But in a

relatively technologically advanced country like China or Spain, or in

other parts of Asia, it goes way beyond that! It is incomprehensible

to civilized people; beyond the pale; beyond what could ever pass for

acceptable " tradition " or even necessity.

 

There is an indifference, at best, and always the motivation of profit

and greed, at its core. But at its worst, perhaps, is an almost

sadistic delight in the conquest and in the suffering. How else could

one explain the glee of the visitors in the nightmarish animal park,

in this video (see link below)? or the inflicting of extraordinary

suffering, endured by an animal that is skinned alive? or the caging

of beautiful moon bears for the torturous extraction of their bile? or

the consuming of dogs, cats, rabbits, other household pets who live

among us? or the intentional poisoning of the animal food chain, thus

killing and affecting the lives of thousands and thousands of innocent

animals? And don't forget the dolphin slaughters in Japan! the

sadistic killing of whales, our own slaughterhouses.

 

And in the case of the Spanish/Latin " traditions " , there are the

bullfights and the " fiestas " which involve the torturous burning,

drowning, darting, stabbing of bulls...the removal of their body parts

while still conscious; and all the other animals who are " sacrificed "

in meaningless religious rituals, and for what???

 

How perverse, how primitive is this? How anthropologically backward,

how mired in ancient mores and rituals are these so-called " modern "

societies, and the " cave " dwellers that live among us, who have yet to

comprehend or experience pity or compassion? who have yet to emerge

from the Dark Ages of barbarism and brutality and experience the Age

of Enlightenment and Reason!

 

zelda

 

Catsunn

catsunn

Tuesday, May 22, 2007 4:20 PM

Need another reason to hate China?

 

http://news.sky.com/skynews/video/videoplayer/0,,31200-1266788,.html

 

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EU shark finning ban ineffective, campaigners say

 

17 May 2007 16:10:05 GMT

 

Source: Reuters

 

 

 

By Jeremy Lovell

 

LONDON, May 17 (Reuters) - The European Union's shark finning

regulations are hopelessly inadequate, allowing vast numbers of sharks

to be killed, finned and dumped at sea in secret, a report by a

conservation group said on Thursday.

 

The Shark Alliance, a coalition of 30 non-government organisations

dedicated to protecting sharks, said the lax EU regulations were

wiping out shark populations and had to be completely overhauled as

soon as possible.

 

The bloc brought in a ban on simple finning -- cutting the high value

fins off the shark and dumping the low value carcass at sea -- in 2003.

 

But its fin to carcass weight ratio monitoring system that is supposed

to match the fins to the number of carcasses on board is double that

used by other nations and allows shark fishermen to continue dumping

large numbers of finned carcasses at sea.

 

" The shark finning ban is one of the only measures the EU has to

safeguard its declining shark populations, and yet this key regulation

is deeply flawed, " said Shark Alliance director Uta Bellion.

 

The report, following a meeting of experts last year, concluded that

the EU had to ban finning at sea and insist that all sharks be landed

intact instead.

 

The IUCN -- the World Conservation Union - concluded last year that 20

percent of the world's 547 shark and ray species were faced with

extinction due to over-fishing.

 

China is the world's biggest consumer of shark fins where they command

top prices to be made into shark fin soup.

 

The EU is the largest supplier of shark fins to China, with Spain the

leading exporter.

 

" Shark fisheries have boomed in recent decades as international demand

has risen for shark products, " added Sarah Fowler, Co-Chair for the

IUCN Shark Specialist Group and one of the lead authors of the report.

 

" Shark fins, exported to Asia for shark fin soup, are now among the

most expensive seafood products in the world, fetching up to 500 euros

($676) per kilogram. The effects of this demand on shark populations

have been ignored for much too long. "

 

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China attempts to reopen tiger trade

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bruce Loudon, South Asia bureau

May 19, 2007

 

THE world's dwindling tiger population faces an alarming new threat as

China attempts to reopen the trade in tiger parts for traditional

medicines, conservationists in India warned yesterday.

 

A seven-member delegation from China visited Delhi this week to seek

support from its neighbour for a proposal that wildlife experts say

would lead to the tiger being wiped out in the wild.

 

But Indian officials yesterday ruled out supporting China's bid to

lift the 14-year global ban on the trade at a meeting next month of

the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species.

 

Indian support for a resumption of tiger-parts trade is important

given it is home to an estimated 3500 tigers, believed to represent

about half of the world's wild tiger population.

 

China claims to have raised more than 5000 tigers in captivity and

says that in addition to being used in traditional medicine, they

could be used to replenish declining tiger populations in the wild.

 

China is free to sell tiger parts domestically -- and according to

conservationists, it does so, despite signing up to the CITES ban on

global trade imposed in 1993.

 

It wants international approval of its trade, arguing that by

permitting a controlled trade in the parts of tigers bred on farms,

the heat will be taken off tigers in the wild that are killed by poachers.

 

Conservationists refute those claims, saying that lifting the CITES

ban on trade would ensure an open season on all wild tigers and

further devastate their already decreasing numbers.

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