What's wrong with Asian people (Not BORN in the west)?? Why my experience with them is always disappointing?!
Years ago, I saw the raising and killing of cats, like they are chicken ( I feel sorry for the chickens too).
I know is a cultural thing, but this should not be happening in the 21 century.
I worked for a chinese guy and since them I don't eat chinese in restaurants.
HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Answers: I've seen their farms where they raise tigers, cats, dogs, e furry animals for slaughter. I just had the painful experience of watching a show that show them killing animals for their fur. No merciful killing. Just brutal, hiting their heads on the rock, chopping their legs while they are alive!
Years ago, I saw the raising and killing of cats, like they are chicken ( I feel sorry for the chickens too).
I know is a cultural thing, but this should not be happening in the 21 century.
I worked for a chinese guy and since them I don't eat chinese in restaurants.
HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I hear you.
"Culture" or not, they should have compassion for animals. They do treat animals probably the worst out of all races, it is unimaginable terror those animals must go through everyday. I saw a story on the news once about a lot of fake fur was made from dogs in China, it actually showed them skinning a live dog. No more fake fur for my girlfriend!
I am a meat eater but I agree that animals should be slaughtered humanely. Some Middle Eastern cultures still slit the throat of animals.
What about some of us Westerners who still circumcise baby boys without anesthetic...that to me is a barbaric act.
Is so Unhuman. At least mercy.
Lets but it this way.
Its most likely that you that Chinese restaurants in the west are most likely Cantonese and not mainland China, Cantonese are from Hong Kong and its illegal for them to kill cats for food. But you know the USA is the worlds biggest killed of animals for food, I think you should ban buying stuff from them as well.
Well lets take the Chinese just because some people do some nasty things you don't like does not mean the rest of the people are like that. On a news report last week, about 800 million people like in rural areas, 200 million people live below are classified as poor. Thats 200 million people, the population of the USA is like 360 million.
Another thing is that you failed to mention China has problems with human rights, it has a long long way to go with human rights before it even starts with animal rights. Years of repression either by there government or by forgiven forces have made the Chinese people brutal and hard hearted.
Everyday life for these people away from the modern cities of china is hard, the average they learn is like $20 a month. While its not nice to see cats killed or eaten the way you say these people do it to survive.
Maybe if the west was so not greedy in forcing them to sell there products at such cheap prices then such counties could afford more cruelness methods and help there counties grow to a more western socially way of life.
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I know how brutal they can be. But you would know that in rural areas, they are both socially, financially behind the west by many years. Why should other counties say how things should be done. The change should be from within the people not enforced on them by people who say they are wrong .Why should Asian counties behave like that of western counties when they have not had the chances to grow both socially, philosophically and better as a country in the last 100-200 years. Its rather like, jumping in a time machine and telling early cavemen that they should be more humane in the way that they hunt. At the moment they simply do not have the resources or the power to warrant change.
help you nwith what? Your situation is like a vegetarian going to Mcdonald's ot Tony Roma's and shocked that they serve meat. And how arrogant of you to judge a culture that was already flourishing when white men were still gnawing on animal bones while living in caves. Who the heck are you to decide what happens in whose country in what century?ou condemn a whole continent based on nothing more than a lifestyle choice whose merits are arguable at best? geez!!@ talk aout messianic complex. So more than 2 billion people disapponted you. But since you are a nobody belonging to an insignificant lifestyle minority really, I'm quite sure they couldn't care less.
Animal welfare is a relatively new concept in many places in Asia. (I'll never forget my Korean roommate in college, who said she didn't understand the purpose of vegetarianism because "animals don't feel pain like humans do"...) I agree that such horrible things shouldn't be taking place in this day and age.
I think you are fooling yourself, if you think that the meat we eat in the West is slaughtered any more mercifully than the Asian places you describe. Have you read "Fast Food Nation"? Or seen documentaries on meat prep in the US? I don't think the Asians can be singled out. :(
I don't think you should classify ALL Asian people based on the actions of a few people. There are many many Asian people, and although some engage in these horrid practices that doesnt' mean all of them do.
That's how people become racist
I agree that these practices are quite terrible.
What do you need help with? Do you need help with being told that you're a bigot.
I'm sure that there are quite a few people that were born and raised in the East and literally wouldn't hurt a fly.
Do you seriously think that most animal slaughter in the West is "merciful"?
http://meat.org
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LOL@ majnun =)
Various animal causes (anti-vivisection, animal welfare, rights, etc) have existed for some time in the western Europe and the US. Anti-vivisection movements existed in the 9th in the UK and were closely associated with suffrage movements (though things like the brown dog affair were controversial enough to united suffragettes, workers, and socialists). The U.S. has a particularly close relationship to dogs (and have since the beginning, even though the standard of living has improved for pets) I think a lot of the difference stems from the lack of a strong animal welfare movement in many Asian countries.
Secondly, some of it is political. When a few people died of rabies, the government responded by hiring men to club thousands and thousands of dogs, sometimes people's pets, to death with bamboo sticks. Reactively hostile government policies can sometimes result in poor treatment of animals. This kind of mismanagement combined with the lack of any significant protest (not that a somewhat authoritarian government can't suppress this easier)
Thirdly, if you look at the history of pets in the US, their standard of living was tied to the animal welfare movement, but also to people's standard of living as well. Countries like China don't really have decent labor laws, etc. If people aren't living well, you can't really except that animals will be treated that well either.
With regards to the killing of cats, I don't see how this is worse than killing a chicken. Every country has its food taboos. Texas was one of the largest exporters of horse meat to Japan until a law banned it. Europe is also fond of horse. In Germany I saw imbissstuben (snack stands) selling Pferdefleisch (horse meat) sausage. People make exceptions for favored animals (dogs, cats, horses in the US, cows in some parts of India, etc) and act like the rest of the animals are somehow different and can be killed and eaten.
I don't see why you need to boycott Chinese restaurants in the US because of factors in Asian countries. You can't assume every Asian immigrant is an animal abuser. I think the situation is much more of a macro issue than blaming individual people.
PS- if you are so pissed off at Asian countries (though really to me it seems you have issue with China) to the point where you are going to boycott Chinese restaurants, why are you on YAHOO ANSWERS?! Yahoo was one of the companies accused of enabling censorship in China. If you want China to change (to the point that you will self-righteously boycott Chinese restaurants, you shouldn't be supporting a company that made it easier for China to suppress and censor dissent!!!!
Go submit your concerns to the Grand Wizard.