China puts a stop to snake-bitten cock-in-a-pot

[I have WHAT in my yard?]

I think moral relativity does not mean that everything anyone else does is OK. It really means that if you truly think a behavior is wrong and want to change it you need to understand why the person doing it (especially if it is culturally accepted) thinks it is OK before you try to explain to them why they should not do it any more.

Like the US swears up and down that domestic violence is bad and we don't accept it. But, it continues to exist very widely throughout our culture. therefore it must be OK to some people and is some how accepted and possibly even encouraged, or it would not continue.

Some cultures eat the brains of their dead relatives in order to absorb their wisdom and memories. The gravest insult you can give some one is to fail to eat their brain after death. It is the only form of true death to them.

 

[ji]

"I also saw pictures of a chinese woman who killed a puppy in a very nasty way in order to have it fo supper..... they are nuts."

I agree with the sentiment here, if not the exact language and also the comments on eating monkey brains. But which country do you think is the most barbaric and backward in its treatment of animals? I would vote for the USA.

I haven't seen pictures of monkey dinners (which as a delicacy is eaten rarely) but I have seen the conditions of factory farms where MILLIONS of animals live horrid lives to end up every day on the plates of happy AMERICAN consumers. I won't go into detail here, those who want to know already know what I am talking about. (As a side bar, I took an F on a paper in college because I would not change the word 'holocaust' to describe the conditions of American factory farming. None of my description was disputed but the fact that I would place a value judgement with responsibility placed on Americans was just too much)

The average Chinese dinner is not monkey brains but the average American dinner contains a plate full of sensless suffering inflicted on an innocent animal - in my opinion.

If I can't stand to look at pictures of how my dinner lived before it became my dinner then my conscience prevents me from participating. Most Americans have no conscience to even ASK themselves the question.

And yes, I am an American. Apple pie in the bone. I am just not proud of how MY country treats animals.

 

[CoopCrazy]

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Not mention the amount of waste.. We americans waste so much of the animal compared to other cultures...

 

[sparkles2307]

I agree that the treatment is horrible, and am glad that we dont have to feel bad about supporting the factory farming industry since between our family and all the neighbors we have all the hand raised beef, poultry, pork, sheep, milk, eggs, etc that we could need and all the animals are treated well!

I do not take back that some of the things they do are nuts, the pictures I spoke of involved *Graphic* a woman in stilleto heels sticking her heel into the open mouth of the live puppy and then impaling its brain with her heel. Nuff said.

 

[ji]

Gary Sparkles what you describe does sound nuts but personally I find 'nuts' more forgivable than the industrialization of the systematic misery of millions of animals. (I'm not saying you don't)

Nuts is shocking but it can also be a destraction from true evil.
Yes, this does mean that I believe much of American factory farming is evil.
If a kid is caught tormenting an animal people freak out and question the sanity of the kid. The kids mom says "Little Damian needs counseling"
Here we have an entire cuture that has institutionalized torment and questioning the sanity of McFood will NOT make the evening news. Where is the cry to counsel the conscience of America?

 

[DuckyBoys]

Wow - cool another America bashing thread!

 

[ninny]

If your gonna eat it you must treat it nice. Period. It has to die for you to eat it. You owe it.

 

[Whispering Winds]

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Amen.

 

[CoopCrazy]

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I dont think any one is bashing America, I for one am not.... I am merely pointing out that we as a people have our issues when it comes to care and production of our food animals as well ... Just different issues...

 

[DuckyBoys]

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I dont think any one is bashing America, I for one am not.... I am merely pointing out that we as a people have our issues when it comes to care and production of our food animals as well ... Just different issues...

It wasn't you!

But when people assume that all farms treat animal like crap - they are just ignorant and have probably never stepped inside a "factory farm".

I, however, inspect these farms for a living. So I actually know what they look like and a PETA movie they are not.