It is the beginning of my two day mental cleansing and I want to talk about one of my fave subjects….DOGS!
Yes, I am a dog person…..my two friends are rescues…..Baby Girl rescued day after Katrina covered in mud and Little man rescued from a house full of dogs….Little Man is just so damn cute and then there is Baby Girl, she is smarter than most people I know and damn sure smarter than the conservs I know….
But I want to talk about China….a country I have had NO interests in visiting and now have a solid reason to avoid the country like the plague…….
Sorry, Fido. It looks like there’s a cat running the communications office of China’s Communist Party — or at least the editorial page of People’s Daily, the party’s official news outlet.
A recent op-ed states, among other things, that there is a “dog infestation” in the country, and people who own canines are acting out a “crude and ludicrous imitation… of a Western lifestyle.” If you can look past the puppy dog eyes, you’ll also discover that dogs are a blight on “social peace and harmony.”
So what did Fluffy do to deserve this? Patrick Winn at Global Post writes that the op-ed “coincides with a revived effort to stamp out certain Western beliefs and behaviors taking root in 21st century China.” Party officials are “taking aim at bigger perils to social harmony, including democracy, an obsession with ‘individual rights’ and the ‘free flow of information on the internet.'”
This isn’t the first screed against dogs the People’s Daily, either:Last month, the paper ran another article that implored animal rights activists to stop shaming those who eat dogs. As that op-ed explains, “Over China’s long history, they have only recently become pets except in the imperial court where Pekingese were kept exclusively for the royals…. [Westerners call dogs] man’s best friends. Chinese people have only ever kept watchdogs or hunting dogs — along with those to be eaten.”
– – Catherine Garcia
I am boycotting EVERYTHING Chinese! Join me!
“Last month, the paper ran another article that implored animal rights activists to stop shaming those who eat dogs.”
Seems to be an Asian thing. While stationed in Vietnam it was known that dog meat was common food fare for the poorer people there. Someone once told me while there that the eye of a dog was considered a food delicacy but not sure he was being serious or not
Yep and where I live when the Viet refugees started showing up the stray dog population decreased…..we made jokes about the dishes like noodles and poodles….braised boxer….so on….
There was a mutt on our base at the DaNang airstrip that was friendly towards all of us but would growl and snarl at any Vietnamese civilians who worked on base. He probably escaped a few near death experiences at the hands of some looking for dinner
We should have taken a page from his playbook….