China clubs 50000 dogs to death because 3 people got rabies

[lunghushan]

Well, I would hope that you wouldn't eat a three year-old human no matter how it was prepared!

How do you decide what to eat and what not to eat? Is it just because it's human or not? Or do you measure by intelligence?

Dogs and pigs are about the intelligence of a 2-3 year old human. Scientists say Dolphins (mammal) are probably just as or more intelligent. So if you wouldn't eat a person, then why would you eat a dog or a pig? Or a dolphin?

If we were to travel to another planet, do we eat anything that isn't human? Even they can communicate with each other? Or do we decide by something else?

Anyways, whatever. While I don't condone China's decision, who am I to say? They eat pretty much any animals except humans in China. Human placenta is even eaten.

[unkokusai]

How do you decide what to eat and what not to eat? Is it just because it's human or not? Or do you measure by intelligence?

Dogs and pigs are about the intelligence of a 2-3 year old human. Scientists say Dolphins (mammal) are probably just as or more intelligent. So if you wouldn't eat a person, then why would you eat a dog or a pig? Or a dolphin?

Well, at least we know you are safe to eat!

[lunghushan]

Well, at least we know you are safe to eat!

Is it possible to have an intelligent conversation with any of you?

[unkokusai]

Is it possible to have an intelligent conversation with any of you?

Not if you are involved, pig-boy.

[latta]

Funny how lots of people will "eat up" anything with respect to Chinese martial arts, but, when it comes to other aspects of Chinese culture, we Americans are on the moral "high road". I'm sure the Chinese would gladly sell all of their extra dogs at a very good price, maybe $1 each, to the humane people out there who will take them off their hands, as opposed to simply crying "wolf" and pointing fingers to line their "humane association" coffers. Or maybe all the humane types would like to make a collection to neuter the Chinese animals to help curb the population. Fat chance. Money talks and BS walks, folks. When the US economy was similar to that of China in the old days, we did much, much worse to animals over here. The US Forest Service single-handedly wiped out the Mexican wolf. Buffalo, alligators, the Carolina parakeet, the passenger pigeon, and many others wiped out or nearly so, and not even in the name of public health. Want to kill a coyote by any means possible? Perfectly legal most anywhere right now. Presently, our "holier-than-thou" saviors of humanity and everything else are in the process of trying to wipe out the "bull breeds" of dogs. I have read of one city which wants to ban all pets entirely, thereby making the world safe (for them at least). Obviously few people on this thread have had the experience of not getting enough protein in their diet for years on end, or knowing someone who died of rabies, the plague, or some other lethal communicable disease. And who among us can say one way of being killed is better than another way? Noone has come back yet discuss the relative merits of "humane euthanization" versus a conk on the head. America needs to get its head out of its own a**hole. People who live in glass houses shouldn't cast stones.

[unkokusai]

So, you're defending the practice of ripping beloved family pets out of the arms of children out for their morning walk and bashing their brains open on the street right in front of them?

[GeneChing]

Let's not get in a flame war about puppies. Puppies are soooo cute. Let's get back OT with Jackie Chan and his cute puppies.

[unkokusai]

'Ol Jackie is starting to look like a Shar Pei himself!