Boycott Beijing Olympics: Help put a stop to extreme animal

[chavette]

This week, someone forwarded me a PETA video documenting horrific cruelty to cats and dogs in China...
I decided that the best way to gain awareness for the issue was to create a sort of "poll petition" on the subject.
So here's the link: click here! (www.pollsb.com/polls/poll/4438/)

The video is on that link too. Watch the video and then please vote so we can raise awareness for the issue (if the poll gets enough votes, there are some popular blogs who have agreed to post it on their sites to raise even more awareness...)

Thanks!

[leminchyl]

the chinese arent exactly known for their human rights, so it this doesnt surprise me to hear that they arent big on animal rights, either.

[peace]

Animal People News has written on this issue extensively, and suggests that a widespread boycott of everything Chinese is a mistake. Only a small and shrinking minority of Chinese people consume dogs and cats, and the the view of dogs and cats as pets (and advocacy on behalf of them) is growing.

Many Chinese people are offended by the Western view that they all eat "pets", and this, ironically, has helped the dog and cat meat profiteers. In some cases, butchers are promoting dog and cat meat as an Eastern tradition that hasn't been taken over by Western industry.

This section comes from Animal people's editorial, "How to Help Animals in China":


A boycott serves no purpose if it does not hit the boycott target. A broad boycott of China––or any other nation––hits many people who have no say in the matter, over the practices of the tiny minority who are engaged in the fur trade. This is especially unfair inasmuch as China is an authoritarian nation with censored media and centralized political power.
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In any event, most Chinese citizens, including the exporters and people working in tourism who would be hit hardest by a boycott, have little ability to dissent from ruling policy.

Full article: http://www.animalpeoplenews.org/99/1/editorial.html