I can forgive Communism, but I cannot forgive this.

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I can forgive Communism, but I cannot forgive this.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2088309/Truck-dogs-crammed-tiny-cages-bound-Chinese-restaurants-rescued-animal-lovers.html

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Bridget Wolfe (Pan Incarnate) said…
I guess you can't forgive capitalism since this is normal at factory chicken farms here in the USA.

Have you ever trailed behind a semi trailer full of chickens in cages? Just as nasty.
January 18, 2012 at 12:53 PM
Tony Stork said…
You see Brian Wolfe clearly it's ok whatever the USA does wrong, but just as soon as something questionable happens in another country...GET YER PITCHFORKS!! lmao...
January 18, 2012 at 12:54 PM
Bridget Wolfe (Pan Incarnate) said…
Tony Stork Welcome to the real american exceptionalism..... the "it's ok for us but anyone else" exception.
January 18, 2012 at 12:55 PM
Jason ON said…
I dont agree with how animals are treated in a lot of the US, either. Humane conditions should be required. However, I didn't say I disagree with Communism because of this, I said I can forgive Communism (which China is) but I cannot forgive this sort of treatment of doggies.
January 18, 2012 at 12:57 PM
Jeffrey McAnarney said…
Dogs in Asia that are meant for consumption are no different than chickens or cattle meant for consumption in America. One has to quit thinking of them as pets; it is a cultural difference, not a moral difference.
January 18, 2012 at 1:00 PM
Bridget Wolfe (Pan Incarnate) said…
Jason ON apologies. I misread thinking you were saying the treatment is a result of communism.
January 18, 2012 at 1:01 PM
Jason ON said…
I thought of that, too, Alice Cabrera, but I read it as dogs in this condition were the norm since they were heading to restaurants and the rescuers were the minority. Especially considering other videos and news I've seen coming out of China about the humane treatment of animals.
January 18, 2012 at 1:02 PM
Jeffrey McAnarney said…
Free range chickens are the minority in this country (America) as well, and people willing to step up and stop cruelty are definitely not the norm in any country, from what I have seen.
January 18, 2012 at 1:04 PM
Bridget Wolfe (Pan Incarnate) said…
Jeffrey McAnarney I don't care that they are food there. I care that they are left in inhumane conditions for long trips to the markets. Inhumane treatment of food animals greatly increases the spoilage and danger of food poisonings and parasites in humans that consume it.
January 18, 2012 at 1:05 PM
Jeffrey McAnarney said…
I agree Brian Wolfe , inhumane treatment of meat on the hoof certainly has to have an effect. The point was more of a 'fix the beam in our own eye before we worry about the speck in anothers'. We treat food animals here with as much disrespect, don't we?

I am not disagreeing that it is horrific, I am only saying it is not unusual nor confined to other countries.
January 18, 2012 at 1:07 PM
Jason ON said…
No worries, Brian Wolfe. My original post was a bit vague.

Agreed, Jeffrey McAnarney, but there are a lot of cultural differences we disagree with:

$0.50/hr wages for factory workers in China
Child labor in China and India
Child rape, er, I mean pre-teen marriage in Islamic countries
Wholesale rape and slaughter of people in Africa
Murder of unwanted children in China and India

Those are just cultural differences, too.
January 18, 2012 at 1:07 PM
Tara Lyn said…
Yay for the rescue!!
January 18, 2012 at 1:08 PM
Jeffrey McAnarney said…
Alice Cabrera I grew up hating the Russians because that is what I was raised to do; I even spent most of my adult life preparing to defend against an invasion. It wasn't until I met some former USSR soldiers later in my career that I realized what a tragedy it would have been to have to have killed any of them.
January 18, 2012 at 1:09 PM
Bridget Wolfe (Pan Incarnate) said…
Jason ON I can't call those cultural differences. I have to call them immoralities. Some are even effective slavery.
January 18, 2012 at 1:11 PM
Jeffrey McAnarney said…
Jason ON That is a very valid point. I suppose the only argument i could give is that some cultural differences (dietary, et al) are acceptable to me whereas others (human rights) are not.

I don't belief that morality is completely relative, but I do believe that some beliefs are just beliefs, and their basis in morality is purely cultural.
January 18, 2012 at 1:11 PM
Jeffrey McAnarney said…
Alice Cabrera It is a shame that, with all the generalization that is done, we seem unable to generalize a lesson against ethnocentrism.
January 18, 2012 at 1:18 PM
Jason ON said…
I don't by any means consider myself an ethnocentrist, but I am a doggie lover and will never agree with this sort of treatment or behavior, no matter how close-minded I may appear.
January 18, 2012 at 6:09 PM
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