Dogmeat Festival gets underway in China

dr.fuzzenstein

When I see how people are extremely crappy to each other and animals as well (which I sometimes find worse, because animals are defenseless and depend on us), I can only say that I would like to distance myself from the Homo Sapiens club.

Flint Fredstone

dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »

When I see how people are extremely crappy to each other and animals as well (which I sometimes find worse, because animals are defenseless and depend on us), I can only say that I would like to distance myself from the Homo Sapiens club.

So cliché :rolleyes:

dr.fuzzenstein

Flint Fredstone wrote: »

So cliché :rolleyes:

Don't care, I mean it from the bottom of my heart.

unseenfootage

Kiwi in IE wrote: »

Apparently white people can only show disgust when other white people torture animals. When anyone else does it, we must accept it. Very strange logic!

You're misrepresenting what I'm saying it.

Show disgust at all torture, in your society and others.
Focus on what is happening closer to home especially if other societies are already dealing with their own issues.

Kiwi in IE

unseenfootage wrote: »

You're misrepresenting what I'm saying it.

Show disgust at all torture, in your society and others.
Focus on what is happening closer to home especially if other societies are already dealing with their own issues.

This thread is not about what's close to home. It's about a festival in China.

unseenfootage

Kiwi in IE wrote: »

This thread is not about what's close to home. It's about a festival in China.

It is.

At the same time if you air your opinions about the views and behavior of others then you must be prepared to have your views and behavior scrutinized.

B.A._Baracus

Don't know how anyone could kill and cook a dog. Dogs are brilliant.
But then again, I enjoy a burger and chicken so I can't really talk.

Flint Fredstone

dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »

Don't care, I mean it from the bottom of my heart.

Suppose it's not as bad as the "I can't wait for a meteor to wipe the human plague out" crowd.
I mean... they could make a start themselves if they felt that strongly about it.

dr.fuzzenstein

Flint Fredstone wrote: »

Suppose it's not as bad as the "I can't wait for a meteor to wipe the human plague out" crowd.
I mean... they could make a start themselves if they felt that strongly about it.

No, not wiping anybody out. Too much work, can't be arsed.

Kiwi in IE

unseenfootage wrote: »

It is.

At the same time if you air your opinions about the views and behavior of others then you must be prepared to have your views and behavior scrutinized.

I have no issue with dogs being eaten, or even a dogmeat festival. I personally would not ever eat dog myself, but that is a cultural preference. Other cultures see eating pigs/cows as wrong/disgusting, while I munch them on a regular basis. There seems to be a lack of comprehension from the apologisers of what the issue actually is. Yes it's hypocritical to condemn others for eating animals when you yourself eat animals, the type of animal is irrelevant to me. I would be equally horrified if a farmer/butcher here was skinning or boiling cow/sheep/pigs alive and leaving them to die slowly. It is the method in which they are being tortured and then killed that infuriates me in this instance. So please stop the ridiculous comments that attempt to insinuate there is some racial bias in my posts. Anyone who can look at an animal while skinning it alive, or torture it and kill it slowly in any way, is a horrible, sick cnut with a complete lack of minimal expected empathy. This applies whether they are a worker in the Chinese dog meat/fur trade, an Irish farmer, or a little skrote with firecrackers and a dog at Halloween.

Outlaw Pete

It's all about having respect for animals for me. It's as simple as that. Just because a person eats animals does not mean they have no respect for them. There's a great book called 'Keepers of the Animals' about how much respect the Native Americans had for each animal that they killed and how much keeping it's suffering to a minimum was something of great importance to them and which they taught their children.

I have relatives that are farmers and I always felt that they very much respected the animals also. Oftentimes worrying if they were in pain and doing whatever it was to alleviate that. I think a lot of the popularity of organic / free range animal produce has been born from a desire from people to see that certain animals don't supper needlessly. And so I'm not sure why anyone would counter criticism of what these people do with the fact that 'We eat meat too, so we can't talk' as that makes little or no sense. Just because we eat meant does not mean we should not be finding this practices abhorrent and sick.

If the Herald ran a story today about how some lads got a dog, pulled it's skin off with sicks and left him lying on the road somewhere, there would be a thread on Boards filled with users wishing the scumbag the same fate. Most likely wouldn't do any good but people would still be doing it. Which makes the 'What good would speaking out do' should a little hollow tbh. Society doesn't seemed to be too shy about holding their tongue on other issues, so it does seem a tad bizarre for them to with regards to certain types of animal cruelty.

China might be the worst for dogs and cats, but Europe is a bigger producer of racoon and fox fur and some of those farms are as bad. In Poland fox fur farming is huge and some of the videos as sickening as the dog ones from China are. I don't know how these people can live with themselves, seeing animals treated like that on a daily basis. There has to be something wrong with them. More power to these humane groups that don't just talk about it, but actually actively try do something about it.

dr.fuzzenstein

Kiwi in IE wrote: »

I have no issue with dogs being eaten, or even a dogmeat festival. I personally would not ever eat dog myself, but that is a cultural preference. Other cultures see eating pigs/cows as wrong/disgusting, while I munch them on a regular basis. There seems to be a lack of comprehension from the apologisers of what the issue actually is. Yes it's hypocritical to condemn others for eating animals when you yourself eat animals, the type of animal is irrelevant to me. I would be equally horrified if a farmer/butcher here was skinning or boiling cow/sheep/pigs alive and leaving them to die slowly. It is the method in which they are being tortured and then killed that infuriates me in this instance. So please stop the ridiculous comments that attempt to insinuate there is some racial bias in my posts. Anyone who can look at an animal while skinning it alive, or torture it and kill it slowly in any way, is a horrible, sick cnut with a complete lack of minimal expected empathy. This applies whether they are a worker in the Chinese dog meat/fur trade, an Irish farmer, or a little skrote with firecrackers and a dog at Halloween.

Slam. Dunk. No Argument.