Animal rights in China

The latest news is that there’s been a breakout of rabies in China and tens of thousands of dogs are being killed in the most brutal ways. This piece of news will certainly be handled differently by Chinese media and foreign media. Most likely, Chinese media would emphasize on the breaking out and people affected while foreign media would certainly mention how the dogs are being killed.

I’ve worked on a radio story about UK’s animal rights, even with the oldest animal rights laws in UK, there are many problems and activists are doing all sorts of things to stop human using animals in any ways.

In China, this is the least worrying of all. There is no proper system set up to protect animals and people rarely think about the issue.

When there’s a breakout of animal related diseases, human selfishness expresses itself in an extreme way. Bird flu, burry birds alive; rabies, poison, electrocute, and hit dogs with bats until they die.

When there’s economical interests involve, poor Chinese farmers express their brutal human instinct to the limit, where they hunt tigers, elephants, and skin any animals with valuable furs alive.

In more peaceful, wealthier cities, Chinese still express their scorn of animal lives, they sell pets at a very low price in horrible conditions, many abandon their pets just because they are sick, the number of abandoned cats in Beijing has reached more than half a million and still souring. When the local government realize that the number is too big for them to cope with, the only solution they come up is to kill all the abandoned cats.

Though people now start to treat animals with love and respect, there are still tens of thousands of perverts maltreating animals. A few month back, a woman gained her fame by wearing high-heels and stepping onto live cats till she kills these little animals, which was suppose to be showing some kind of sexual domination thing. It was condemned by the public, but who knows how many other people are “cureing their mental disease” by killing animals.