China Loves Animals, But Not As We Know Love

I just now read an article on the Salon website recounting the author's experience in China, wherein he was offered meat from a dog he had befriended. Whether this was intentional or simply insensitive is not the point, but the timing is impeccable, since it was just yesterday that I posted my own article about the many abuses going on in China.

Since this is a cat lover's blog, I do ask you to read my article, but feel free to skip the link there talking about China's death camps for cats and dogs, since the contents were even too distressing for me to read in detail. And the reason for China's killing dogs and cats is to simply "clean up the cities" before the Olympics, although they claim it's to "prevent disease". The Catholic Church tried killing cats in the Middle Ages, and the result was the disease called the Black Death. Unless you believe there are no rats anywhere in China...especially this year!

In any case, I would like you to take away three main points from all this:

• Cheap Chinese goods are no bargain when they support death.
• We should all try to cut down on our purchase of Chinese-made items.
• Boycott the 2008 Summer Olympics. Don't even watch it on TV.