Truck Filled with Stolen Pet Dogs Headed for Slaughter in China Stopped by a Few Activists: Signs of Hope in the Abusive and Callous Country of China

Though the outcome of this story was good, it also shows the reality that dogs and cats are indeed eaten in China.

Please take the time to look at these photos at http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/environment/animals/chinese-dogs-saved-from-cooking-pot-20110418-1dld9.html

To think that this is common practice is just sickening and sad. For dog lovers to see dogs packed into this disgusting, rickety truck brings to reality just what the majority of Chinese people do to dogs. Many of us in the US are used to seeing cattle trucks, but we’ve never seen a truck bringing dogs to be slaughtered for food. Just look at their faces and you’ll see the same ones we see daily in our homes.

It’s hearting to see the SOME people are changing in China. But, the majority remain cruel and abusive people steeped in superstition. We can only hope that more people begin to take on the ideals that these brave people did, especially in the land of animal abuse known as china.

Please check out the story and the photos at http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/environment/animals/chinese-dogs-saved-from-cooking-pot-20110418-1dld9.html

Here are some telling quotes from the story:

“The dogs, many apparently stolen from their owners, were being transported from the central Chinese province of Henan to restaurants in Jilin province in the north-east, The China Daily said.”

“The China Daily quoted activists as saying many of the dogs still had collars with bells and name tags, indicating they had been stolen from their owners and that the trucking company transported a load of dogs to Jilin each week.”

“The consumption of dog and cat meat, both of which are believed to promote bodily warmth and are thus popular in winter, remains widespread in China despite a surge in popularity as pets.”

EU Ban on Seal Products from Canada Works: So, What Does Canada Do? The Obvious: Sell to China!!

Yep, we all know that China is the cruelest country on Earth, caring little for any other species. So, obviously there will be a market there for dead baby seal products from the horrific Canadian baby seal slaughter!

We’ve written countless articles on the cruelty in China – here is one: http://geari.blogspot.com/2006/03/crash-course-in-unbelievable-cruelty.html

Oh, and here is just one article we’ve done about the annual baby seal slaughter done by Canada every year: http://geari.blogspot.com/2009/03/sick-cruel-canada-begins-its-annual.html

Read on to see just how great this cruel friendship is. Sad to see that instead of getting the point, Canada is sticking to it’s cruel ways and will keep selling the products of dead, tortured baby seals.

Article:

Canada banking on Chinese appetite for seal meat to offset losses from EU ban

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/canada-ink-deal-sell-seal-meat-oil-china-20110112-063220-068.html

By The Canadian Press | The Canadian Press – Wed, 12 Jan 3:38 PM EST

A seal hunter drags a harp seal back to his snowmobile during the annual seal hunt …

BEIJING, China - China has agreed to import Canadian seal meat and oil in a deal the federal government hopes will create new markets for the embattled industry.

Fisheries Minister Gail Shea announced the agreement Wednesday in a conference call from

Beijing, where she is trying to promote Canadian seafood and seal products.

Shea said the deal will take effect Thursday and make Canada the only country allowed to export seal meat and oil to the massive Chinese market.

"For Canada, sealing is about more than fur — the trade of other seal products represents a growing share of what is already a multimillion-dollar business," she said.

"This is all part of the bigger picture of growing this industry to its full potential."

But animal rights activists say Canadian processors could have a hard time selling the maligned products in China, which they say has little appetite for the meat and is joining a growing number of countries that view the seal hunt as inhumane.

Rebecca Aldworth, a Canadian spokeswoman for the Humane Society of the United States, said she was in China in November to screen footage from last year's seal hunt off eastern Canada.

Aldworth said there is rising opposition to the hunt and a reluctance to accept the products as food sources.

"I don't believe there is any future for the Canadian sealing industry in China," she said from Montreal.

"I'm confident the people of China will reject these products of cruelty just as the rest of the world has done."

Shea said it's hoped any new markets in China will offset expected losses from a recently imposed ban on the importation of seal products into the European Union.

She couldn't put a dollar value on the possible seal meat and oil exports, but said it will be up to the industry to promote a product they have tried for years to introduce to the Asian country.

"Initialling this arrangement of course means we now have access, but it will be up to the industry to ensure that we actually start selling some of these products into the marketplace," she said.

China is the third largest export market of Canadian seafood products, with an average of over $300 million in exports annually.

Only a fraction of the quota of 330,000 seals was caught last year, with many sealers choosing to stay home. Korea and Japan are the only other countries that buy edible seal products.

Participation in the seal hunt has been falling since the introduction of the EU ban last year and a decrease in markets.

Fisheries officials estimate that about 5,000 individuals derive some income from sealing.

In 2007, the landed value of the harp seal harvest was $12 million and the average price per pelt received by sealers was approximately $52, compared to $14 in 2009 and about $23 last year.

Tim Gunn, from Project Runway, Narrates Video which Exposes Horrible Cruelty Endured by Rabbits when Killed for their Fur in Chinese Fur Farms

To see the full video narrated by Tim Gunn, with proof of the pain rabbits endure when killing them for their fur, see http://getactive.peta.org/campaign/tim_gunn I encourage all of you to view it. You will also find a petition to sign at the page.

As you probably know, China, the cruelest country on Earth, has no laws that prevent animal cruelty.

I commend Tim Gunn for speaking the truth in regard to fur. I had no idea he was so active in exposing the cruelty behind fur.

Here are just a couple actions he’s taken to educate on the realty of the cruelty of fur:

“When he was the chair of the Department of Fashion Design at Parsons School of Design, Gunn started a program allowing PETA representatives to give presentations to students so that they could see for themselves what happens to animals who are tortured and killed for their fur. When Gunn became the chief creative officer at Liz Claiborne Inc., he invited PETA to show video footage depicting how animals are treated by the fashion industry worldwide and to present the many viable alternatives to animal fur.”

I’ve listed a small description of what happens to rabbits when they are killed for their fur below.

To see the full video narrated by Tim Gunn, with proof of the pain rabbits endure when killing them for their fur, see http://getactive.peta.org/campaign/tim_gunn I encourage all of you to view it.

“Rabbits on these farms spend their entire lives in small, filth-encrusted cages. The ammonia from urine-soaked floors burns their eyes and lungs and many rabbits die from respiratory diseases—all considered just a cost of doing business. One Chinese farm keeps 20,000 caged rabbits and kills as many as 2,000 of them every day.

When the rabbits are still babies—4 or 5 months old—they are killed. Workers stuff the terrified animals into flimsy wire crates, which they bump and drag across the floor. Some rabbits suffer broken bones and have limbs scraped raw when their legs slip through the wire.

The rabbits are yanked out of the crates by their ears, shackled and hung upside-down by their hind legs, shocked with electric stun guns and decapitated. In video footage shot at one farm, some of the rabbits scream—yes, scream—during slaughter. One investigator saw a rabbit lose control of her bowels after being shocked repeatedly.”

Article:

http://getactive.peta.org/campaign/tim_gunn

"Project Runway's" Tim Gunn Exposes Fashion Cruelty in New PETA Video

Want to have a killer look without killing animals? Tim Gunn will help you "make it work"! Long before the success of Project Runway and Tim Gunn's Guide to Style made him a household name, Gunn was a friend of PETA and animals. His appeal has not fallen on deaf ears, as Donna Karan announced days later that her fall 2009 lines will be fur-free and that she has "no plans" to use fur in the future.

When he was the chair of the Department of Fashion Design at Parsons School of Design, Gunn started a program allowing PETA representatives to give presentations to students so that they could see for themselves what happens to animals who are tortured and killed for their fur. When Gunn became the chief creative officer at Liz Claiborne Inc., he invited PETA to show video footage depicting how animals are treated by the fashion industry worldwide and to present the many viable alternatives to animal fur.

Now Gunn is speaking up for animals again! But this time, Gunn wants you, the consumer, to know what animals endure in the name of fashion so that you can make informed decisions before buying clothing and accessories made from fur, wool, and leather. Gunn has become the latest celebrity to lend his voice to animals by narrating PETA's new skins video which he sent with a personal appeal to Donna Karan and Giorgio Armani, who both use rabbit fur in their collections. His appeal has not fallen on deaf ears, as Donna Karan announced days later that her fall 2009 lines will be fur-free and that she has "no plans" to use fur in the future.

Group Being Sued for Exposing Chinese Company that Uses Tiger Bones in Winemaking

The group being sued is The International Fund for Animal Welfare.

Of course, it’s by another abusing Chinese company who cares little for any other species. They of course deny the use of tiger bones. Yet, I’m not sure if they are just too slow to realize this, but they actually admit to using the bones of a Mammal in the wine. Even though it isn’t of a Tiger, it still is of a mammal – an African lion. “The main ingredients of the ‘animal bone medicated wine’ produced by [Guilen Xiongsen] are rice wine, papayas and African lion bones…”

So, they do admit to using bones in the wine.


For a crash course on the inherent cruelty of the Chinese culture, including video proof, see http://geari.blogspot.com/2006/03/crash-course-in-unbelievable-cruelty.html
Article:

Lions and tigers and … bone wine?

http://www.mddailyrecord.com/article.cfm?id=4848&type=UTTM

BEN MOOK

Daily Record Assistant Business Editor

March 27, 2008 6:54 PM

Silver Spring-based Discovery Communications LLC was ordered Thursday to turn over footage from one of its Animal Planet shows about the use of tiger bones in winemaking to help bolster the defense of an animal rights group being sued in China.

The International Fund for Animal Welfare asked the U.S. District Court for Maryland, in Greenbelt, on Tuesday to compel Discovery Communications to turn over footage from an episode of its Wildlife Crime Scene show. A federal judge signed off on the subpoena and gave the company until April 25 to turn over the footage and describe where and how it was obtained.

The footage will be used in a civil lawsuit filed against the animal rights group on Oct. 11, 2007. The Guilin Xiongsen Bear & Tiger Mountain Villa Entertainment Center filed the lawsuit against the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) in the Beijing High People’s Court. The company claims the animal rights group impugned its reputation through a web article claiming a wine it makes uses tiger skeletons as the primary raw material.

The show in question is a six-part series called Crime Scene Wild, hosted by Steven Gastler, which features undercover investigating along with DNA and forensic science to expose illegal animal trading. The episode being subpoenaed is the final episode that includes a look at the Bear & Tiger Mountain Villa and the making of bone fortified wine. The Crime Scene Wild episode has not aired, and is not slated to air, in the U.S. It has however, been aired in the Animal Planet’s Asian and Australian markets.

Guilin Xiongsen runs a tiger farm, villa, restaurant and winemaking operation at Bear & Tiger Mountain. According to a June 22, 2007, report in the Sydney [Australia] Morning Herald, there were “1,300 captive bred-tigers including 43 frozen carcasses of animals that have died of natural causes” at the site.

The company has vigorously denied an article on IFAW’s Web site that claimed that at any given time the winemaker had “400 tiger skeletons immersed in the entire wine cellar.” And, that “you can see an intact tiger skeleton by randomly looking into a wine tank.”

“The Xiongsen Brand Medicated Wine manufactured and sold by it is produced with animal bones such as aged African lion bones in the Bear & Tiger Mountain Villa upon approval of the [Chinese] State Forestry Administration and Forestry Bureau of the Guangzi Zhuang Autonomous Region,” the complaint in Beijing court reads.

Guilin Xiongsen also disputes the group’s account that tiger meat was served in the villa’s restaurant under the name “king’s meat.” The use of rhinoceros horn and tiger bones has been prohibited by Chinese law since 1993.

“In a word, the plaintiff has never engaged in any tiger bone trade, or prepared tiger meat into various dishes, or produced and sold the so-called ‘tiger-bone medicated wine,’” the company said in the lawsuit. “The main ingredients of the ‘animal bone medicated wine’ produced by [Guilen Xiongsen] are rice wine, papayas and African lion bones, and do not include any ‘tiger bone’ ingredients at all.”

Cruel China at it Again: Zoos in China Described as "Insane Asylums for Animals" and a National Disgrace: Live Domestic Animals Fed To Lions

Cruel china is back again. This time it’s exposing the horrors of zoos in the country. Turns out that they love to see live animals mauled and torn apart for sheer enjoyment. Very cruel country indeed but very much China.

Article:

China's Zoos: 'Asylums for Animals'

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1266775,00.html

By Peter Sharp,
China Correspondent

Updated: 17:57, Tuesday May 22, 2007
China's zoos have been described as "insane asylums for animals" and a national disgrace, where live domestic pets are fed to lions and tigers for the entertainment of visitors.
Animals are trained to perform tricks
Animals are trained to perform tricks

Animal rights activists have told Sky News that in 10 years of monitoring animals' living conditions there has been "no improvement".

Campaigner Dr John Wederburn said: "I come back to the same zoo four or five years later and the same animals are still trapped in the same tiny cage.

"It's called zoo-chosis. The animals are simply driven out of their minds by the boredom."

Stage shows, in which bears are trained to twirl sticks of fire and ride motorcycles, came in for particular criticism.

At one zoo, a three-year-old bear was put in a dress and a harness to pull a car twice a day in front of the holiday crowds.
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Meanwhile, a trip round the Harbin Wildlife Park in Northern China ends with a gruesome spectacle.

The world's biggest breeding centre for Siberian tigers encourages visitors to buy domestic animals that will be fed live to the tigers.

Special vending flaps are fitted on the tourist buses to allow visitors to feed chickens to the waiting tigers.

A live chicken can be purchased for £2.60, while a cow costs £100.

The authorities at the park say the tigers are being trained to be released back into the wild and argue that the fees charged for the live animals are used to support the park.


But Dr Wederburn has described the practice as "medieval", while the World Society for the Protection of Animals also condemned it.

Virginia McKenna, of the wildlife charity Born Free, said: "With the Olympic Games just a year away, China has a short window of opportunity to tackle these issues.

"(It) faces the very real possibility that many of the millions of sports enthusiasts will return not with memories of the Olympic spectacle, nor of China's undoubted ancient civilisation and culture... but of the animal welfare horrors that still go on, causing such suffering, and offending us all."

Cruel China at It Again: Allows Tourists to Pay To Have LIVE Animals Thrown From Trucks to Be Mauled By Live Tigers

Yes, this isn’t a joke. Sadly it’s all true. But what do you expect from this cruelest country on Earth? I’m always a little surprised when a new story comes out, but I’m starting to not be anymore.

I need to repeat that these are LIVE animals. Some as big as OX. So they will literally dump a live OX or cow from a truck and then sicko tourists and their sick Chinese counterparts have a good laugh.

Here’s a little from the article below. The article actually has pictures and I encourage you to visit them. Just read this and you’ll be blown away once again by the cruelty of China:

“EYES rolling and squealing with fear, the cow is forced from the back of a moving pick-up truck into the dirt.

There is an explosion of dust, blood and flashing cameras as an ambush of tigers moves in for the kill, tearing great strips off the animal's back as it struggles for a second, then goes still, bar the odd twitch.

A minute later there is little left of the ton-weight heifer except a scrap of skin, a mess of bones and a puddle of blood.”

“To watch a live chicken thrown to the tigers costs £2.50. You can also opt for an £8 duck, an £8 pheasant or a £40 sheep. Strapped for cash? You can choose raw steak for 80p. But the prize is a cow or ox, which costs £120.”

More about Cruel China can also be found at the links below. The first link is especially telling as it provides actual photos of the reality of animal torture in China:

http://geari.blogspot.com/2006/03/
crash-course-in-unbelievable-cruelty.html

http://geari.blogspot.com/2006/08/
cruel-china-plans-another-large-dog.html

http://geari.blogspot.com/2006/08/
even-on-heels-of-beyond-disgusting-dog.html

http://geari.blogspot.com/2006/05/
in-order-to-get-back-at-dalai-lama-and.html

http://geari.blogspot.com/2007/01/
sean-diddy-combs-admits-dog-fur-used.html


Article:

EXCLUSIVE: NICE HOL?
EXCLUSIVE Tourists buy live animals.. to throw to tigers

http://www.sundaymirror.co.uk/archive/archive/
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By Adam Lee-Potter

EYES rolling and squealing with fear, the cow is forced from the back of a moving pick-up truck into the dirt.

There is an explosion of dust, blood and flashing cameras as an ambush of tigers moves in for the kill, tearing great strips off the animal's back as it struggles for a second, then goes still, bar the odd twitch.

A minute later there is little left of the ton-weight heifer except a scrap of skin, a mess of bones and a puddle of blood.

Seconds from death... a truck ready to dump the doomed cow

But this is not some wild savannah. Welcome instead to China's latest tourist craze - paying up to £120 a time to feed live animals to ravenous Siberian tigers. From four packed buses goggle-eyed tourists shoot roll after roll of film, and even clap. One Westerner waves a roll of notes at the tour guide, excitedly gesturing at the bizarre menu pinned to the wall.

A chicken is gobbled up by one of the ravenous tigers

To watch a live chicken thrown to the tigers costs £2.50. You can also opt for an £8 duck, an £8 pheasant or a £40 sheep. Strapped for cash? You can choose raw steak for 80p. But the prize is a cow or ox, which costs £120. The Heilongjiang Siberian Tiger Park in Harbin, Northern China, is becoming one of the country's top destinations. The park is home to more than 700 of these huge animals - also known as Amur or Manchurian tigers. There are just 400 left in the wild. One tourist who got more than he bargained for from the hourlong £4 tour was American Paul Gray, 40. "I was expecting a safari, not a bloodbath," he said. "But people were baying for more. One of the guides threw a chicken and it landed on one of the support vehicles. A tiger leapt on to the roof and gobbled it up in one go. I was horrified."

Last year, Wang Wei, of China's Wildlife Conservation Department, promised to "put an end to shows of feeding beasts of prey with live animals". But, today, it is still very much business as usual.