China Orders Killing 10,000 Cats In Markets Linked To SARS
 

The Chinese have discovered that SARS is spreading from all the live animal markets they have over there. Dumb fucks, that's what you get for eating dogs and cats.

Authorities have ordered the live animal markets shut down and have ordered the immediate killing of 10,000 civet cats in all the markets believed to be the primary SARS carrier to the other animals and then to people.

http://www.zoologicalimports.com/pic...ricancivet.JPG

Yeah just saw it on the news too.
Fucking idiots.

Only in China...*Shakes Head*

Its a cultural thing. Civet cats are a different species from the house cat.

its a breed of fox and yes it is the source of sars and was proven.

uk slaughtered all the cows when there was mad cows.

im starting to think this whole forum is just a bunch of racist idiots.

Those civets are cute little fuckers for carrying something so deadly. Like a racoon with a shave and an ear tuck.

So we can expect SARS to hit Canada/US again soon then... :spawn

Damn, you've got ISSUESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

We have a defender of "Lassie" eaters in the house? I have nothing against your race. But I do have a major problem with how your people mistreat and abuse animals in the live markets.

And plese don't even try to defend that.

Nah - it's just that many Americans are worried about the well-being of cuddly animals (only the cuddly ones).

(The fact that 40 million Americans live like in Calcutta isn't part of the discussion. They're not cuddly.) :Graucho

Actually I think they prefer to eat rats in Hong Kong.:)

You have to remember there are a bunch of youngsters on here as well as people who have never travelled so there is bound to be a lot of ignorant racism.

40 Millions Americans live in Calcutta like conditions?
Damn, the primitive anti-American machine works real good in Europe:eek2

SARS is long over.

no ive not got issues, people start posting racist comments about chinese and its something that was needed to be done for peoples safety

Yeh it looks like you've got a lot of animal lovers over there.

http://www.animalsrighttolifewebsite...s/dragtode.jpg

http://www.animalsrighttolifewebsite...es/Korea_3.jpg

http://www.animalsrighttolifewebsite.com/images/xc2.jpg

http://www.animalsrighttolifewebsite...mages/xc15.jpg

http://www.animalsrighttolifewebsite...oreaSLI-10.jpg

Those pictures are just horrific. :(

Well there goes my supper :1orglaugh

If you show photos of cows and sheep in a slaughter house it has just the same effect

if you eat any sort of meat your contradicting anything you have said in this post.

Dog, cat, sheep, cow, pig its all the same

Truth is usually an unpleasant thing. That's why so much of the world is built on lies.

Agreed. Evil people lurk everywhere and of all color and race.

http://www.petatv.com/tvpopup/video....nahan-pig-farm

http://www.petatv.com/tvpopup/getvid...deo=pigfarminv

Fuck, I do not like dogs but those pics are sad

http://www.ca4a.org/info/slaughterhouse/

600,000 animals are killed in USA everyday for meat.

I've often heard stories / rumors of that apsect of Chinese culture, but I don't recall ever witnessing it first hand before. The images were definitely an eye opener.

Exactly, it is a cultural thing.

We have to teach our kids that it is ok to kill bambi and eat venison but discusting to eat cats and dogs???

Personally I don't want to eat cats and dogs myself, but I don't see anything wrong with it.

i wouldnt east dog and cat, but if i was born in china and that is all i knew and loved and didnt see the outside world, i wouldnt know any better.

Wouldn't load for me.

Are you vegan KRL?

I was macrobiotic for a while but it was too hard to eat right away from home so I went back to eating dead stuff :glugglug

Yes but slaughterhouses in the US do not throw live cats into vats of boiling water nor hang dogs by their necks from trees, beat them with baseball bats and skin them while still alive.

My point is if you are going to slaughter, at least minimize the pain and suffering as much as humanely possible. Animal eating will not stop anytime soon. All I'm trying to do is improve the conditions and treament of the animals as much as possible and you can only accomplish that by making people aware of what goes on all over the world and trying to enact legislation to change things as best as possible.

KRL -

A new person has SARS and it was suspected to have come from those cats.
China DOES NOT WANT another outbreak.

I applaud China for making an effort to prevent another outbreak. Last thing I want is to have a SARS scare every fucking year.

As cold-hearted as it sounds, I think killing those wild cats is for the best. The world seriously does not need more SARS going around.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp..._me/china_sars

As much as possible. Unfortunately I think being totally just on vegetables is not all that healthy.

I respect people's right to eat meat but hey you don't need to be cruel to the animals in the process if it can be avoided in any way.

That's all I'm saying.

According to the book Gold Guns & Germs, one of the KEY sources of human diseases are the animals we use for food. Consequently, as the human diet expands, the more pathogens it will come across (ie., Chinese eating civet cats).

I'm thrilled their shutting down the markets. All the animals are going to die there anyway obviously. So I applaud the Chinese government on these actions.

Fusion, I'm sorry if I offended your race, presuming you are asian.

It spread in Hong Kong because a guy eat one of those foxes in china and bought it here to Hong Kong which then spread around the world.

its prett bad and few people in our block died (65) so it was pretty scary for me at that time.

Killing those foxes is not cool but another outbreak would be bad news.

china goverment should educate there people on eating wild animals though, its pretty dangerous.

only village areas seem to eat this type of thing, ive never seen it in city areas in china.

KRL,

my wife is chinese, im from england.

no offense taken buddy

I guess this post was misinterpretted cause of the headline. I'm happy they are shutting down the markets finally. Its sad the 10,000 cats have to be killed and not released back into the wild since surely they all don't have SARS, but they were going to be killed regardless.

But we do inject live tumor cells into animals for research. We are all guilty of cruelty to animals.

Very sensible as always. I agree. Make it humane.

ahaha yo fucking stupid american cant tell the difference between a cat and a fox, no wonder you idiots call a pile of playboy in iraq "WMD", still searching your ass off there yo?, call the fox a cat you dumb fuck chink hahaa, too funny:1orglaugh :1orglaugh

Medical research labs are even worse I know.

In India, many Hindus are vegetarians out of respect for animals. Cows are holy animals because they have many of qualities desired by the Hindus: They are calm, non-aggressive, etc.

Americans could learn a lot from Hindus. :Graucho

chinese and hong kong goverment acted poorly with the sars issue, most parts in china still dont even know aboutn sars, they kept it from the people for long time until it was too late.

i wish the there goverment would educate them more, thats the only prevention measure i'd say.

btw those foxes are cute :) too good to eat

...but dog and cat are known to be house pets and "man's best friend or companion":(

bah

Dont they have McDonalds over there? Dammit ,someone should give them a couple of cows or something but I guess they would just have sex with them instead of eating them..

LOL, no Big Macs sorry, but they do serve a hell of a good McDog burger I bet.

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh

We would if if made the meat taste better ,
apperantly that makes the dog stress , with inturn makes the meat tastier ,

Cruelty for taste is not uncommon over here ..
Take a veal cow for instance . tiny little room , no daylight no room to move . just a little box to live in till the " baby cow " is hung and throat slit .. or however they kill . On a side note , as a teen I recued a veal cow from our local fair LOL . imagine my dads surprise when he awoke to a calf in his living room at 3 am LOL

Its the same all around the world .
Just in asia its displayed in public ..

You guys should download that first Michael Moore movie (can´t remember the name). There´s a woman in that film, living somewhere in America, beating cats with a basebollbat, skinning them and then selling the meat..

I really didn't need to see those pics just before lunch. A link would've been just fine...

ouch

same here