Boycott China For Crimes Against Animals
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Here's why and how to Boycott China for the way it treats animals
Although you've no doubt heard about their human rights abuses, these crimes against animals may be new to you.
This site will focus on these atrocious and totally incomprehensible abuses against animals. Please read all of this information so you can make an informed decision to join in boycotting China -- all products, services and yes, even the 2008 Olympics.
We, the people of the world, need to let the Chinese government know that we will not look the other way and allow them to line their pockets through the torture, mutilation and extermination of the animals in their country.
Mahatma Gandhi Quote
"The greatness of a nation and it's moral progress can be determined by the ways it treats it's animals."
Mahatma Gandhi
How And Why I Got Involved
I love animals, especially bears, dogs and cats (both big cats and domestics). In fact 2 of my nicknames are Bearmeister and Cat Woman. I've fostered cats and kittens since 1999 and have been working to save feral cats. The picture here is of my petting Tara, a former feral cat, who joined my family.While doing daily research on animals over the past couple of years, I began to see news articles about the inhumane acts being done to animals in China.
I was appalled. I don't look at most of the videos showing the abuse because it tears my heart out. However, I make myself watch one every once in a while -- usually I don't get all the way through -- just to remind myself why these animals need my help.
Seeing IS believing. My head may want to forget what I've seen, but my heart won't let me. Watching a video once in a while keeps my determination strong.
I also keep the following quote on taped to my computer monitor as yet another reminded that 1 person can make a difference. I hope you join me.
I wondered why somebody didn't do something; then I realized I was somebody! - unknown
POLL - What Crimes Have You Heard About?
Crimes against animals in china
Vote for every crime that you have heard about. If you know of 1 that is not there, please add it and remember to vote for it. Thank you.
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The dog and cat fur trade.
51 points
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Selling and eating cat and dog meat.
51 points
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Dog and cat meat industry.
42 points
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Bear (bile) farming.
34 points
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The brutal killing of animals for fur
31 points
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Shanghai china clubs to death 50,000 dogs in a day
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14139027/ns/health-pe27 points
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2008 cat extermination for the Olympics.
27 points
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Putting live goldfish in souvenir keychains for the 2008 Olympics.
17 points
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The killing of greyhounds after their track life is over.
These affectionate and intelligent animals are fin more...7 points
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Deforestation of Tibet
Complete destruction of whole ecosystems - unknown more...3 points
Millions cats and dogs are killed annually for China's FUR TRADE
News Articles About China's Dog and Cat Fur Trade
- China's Shocking Dog and Cat Fur Trade
- For the sake of fashion, animals are trapped, drowned, or beaten to death in the wild and gassed, strangled, or electrocuted on fur farms...
- BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | McCartney attacks China over fur
- Sir Paul McCartney vows not to perform in China after seeing footage of dogs and cats being killed for their fur.
- Overstock.com Goes Fur Free
- Online Merchant held a joint conference with the Humane Society of the United States and announced Overstock.com will no longer sell products online that contain animal fur effective today...
- A Shocking Look Inside Chinese Fur Farms
- When undercover investigators made their way onto Chinese fur farms recently, they found that many animals are still alive and struggling desperately when workers flip them onto their backs or hang them up by their legs or tails to skin them. When workers on these farms begin to cut the skin and fur...
- Humane Society International/UK and The HSUS Welcome EU Ban on Cat and Dog Fur Imports and Exports
- Humane Society International/UK and The HSUS welcome a EU ban on the import, export and trade of cat and dog fur that will become effective Jan. 1.
Petitions To End This Abuse Of Cats And Dogs
These are petitions that need our signatures
1. End China's animal terror:
Stop China's Animal Terror
2. Stop China from the continuing slaughter of cats & dogs:
Stop China's Killing Cats & Dogs
3. Fight for animal abuse laws in China: Change Animal Laws In China
4. Stop the cats being skinned alive! Stop the cutting
5. Help end the Bloody Fur Trade: Help end the Bloody Fur Trade
Videos Of Chinese Treatment Of Cats And Dogs
Cat and Dog FUR Trade In Asia
Dog And Cat FUR Trade Background
Cats and dogs killed for fur
Yes, in China cats and dogs are raised, skinned for their fur. This is the largest and without doubt the most cruel fur trade in the world. Although China has animal welfare laws that protect cats and dogs in the home and (some) wildlife in the wild, the laws do not cover (protect) animals in the fur trade. That means they can do anything to these animals that they want (and they do) without fear of being charged.8 years ago, the Humane Society of the US sent an undercover investigator into China to determine how extensive the production and sale of cat and dog fur was. What was found was stomach-wrenching - a staggering 2 million cats and dogs were raised under cruel conditions and then skinned alive, strangled or stabbed solely for their furs and skins.
Facts about China's Fur Trade
These fur trade facts are horrendous
Vote for every fact that you have heard about. If you know of 1 that is not there, please add it and remember to vote for it. Thank you.
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Cat and dog fur is used in clothing, blankets, stuffed animals and toys.
21 points
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It takes 12 to 15 adult dogs to make a coat out of dog fur
13 points
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It takes up to 24 cats to make a coat of cat fur
13 points
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Dogs and cats are skinned alive or brutally murdered.
13 points
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China with its huge fur industry is the largest importer and re-exporter of fur in the world
7 points
Dog fur called by other names on products
Dog fur is disguised by fake names
Vote for every fur name that you've heard about. If you know of 1 that is not there, please add it and remember to vote for it. Thank you.
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Faux fur
18 points
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fake fur
17 points
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Asian jackal
8 points
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Gae-wolf
7 points
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exotic fur
7 points
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Sobak
6 points
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Goupee
5 points
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Loup d'Asie
5 points
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Dogues du Chine
5 points
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Corsac fox
4 points
CAT fur is disguised by fake names
CAT fur is disguised by fake names
Vote for every fur name that you've heard about. If you know of 1 that is not there, please add it and remember to vote for it. Thank you.
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Faux fur
16 points
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fake fur
15 points
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rabbit
12 points
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house cat
7 points
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mountain cat
7 points
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wild cat
6 points
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katzenfelle
6 points
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goyangi
3 points
Groups Working To Stop China's Fur Trade
How to put a stop to China's fur trade
- MusiciansAgainstFur
- Singers/Songwriters & Musicians Unite Against The Cruel Cat/Dog & Captive Wild Animal Fur Trade in China, Hosted by Mary Alice Pollard, Cornwall's Voice for Animals, UK
- Animal Watch Manitoba (Canada)
- Every year, two million stray, farmed and stolen dogs and cats are turned into fur trim, plush toys and fur coats in China and other southeast Asian countries. Unlike the U.S. and several other countries, Canada has no laws to keep these unlabeled and mislabeled products off our retail racks and shelves.
- Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade
- ormed in 1997, CAFT-UK has helped regenerate the grass-roots campaign against the fur trade in Britain.
Through investigations, education, campaigns and demonstrations we have exposed the horror of the fur trade and helped establish and continue anti-fur actions across Britain. We have filmed undercover in fur farms, lobbied for a ban on fur farming and persuaded dozens of shops to stop selling real fur... - Fur Is Dead: Learn what happens on fur farms and in the wild
- For the sake of fashion, animals are trapped, drowned, or beaten to death in the wild and gassed, strangled, or electrocuted on fur farms.
There are now officially 247 BEAR FARMS across China, housing an estimated total of 7,002 BEARS.
Bear Farms
Asatic Black Bears and Sloth Bears
One of the most barbaric treatments of Asiatic Black Bears happen in China. Bears are either out-right killed for their gallbladders and other parts, which are used in traditional Asian medicines, or possibly an even worse fate, the bear is put in a Bear Farm and their bile extracted.Bear bile is used in traditional Chinese medicine. During the 1980s, North Korea developed the inhumane method of bile tapping from Asiatic Black Bears through catheters. China quickly followed.
By the early 1990s the number of captive bears hit 10,000 in 480 bear farms! Bear bile prices had rocketed but with the advent of synthetic bear bile and greater awareness of this barbaric and inhumane method of harvesting, the price has plunged.
AAF founder Jill Robinson visits China
In 1993 Jill Robinson visited China's Sichuan province and found bears incarcerated in tiny cages in bear bile farms. The bears had been there since they were cubs. Here's what she found:
1. Due to surgically implanted catheters, the bears were lying stomach down in cages -- barely high enough for them to raise their heads.
2. The bears spent their waking hours biting the iron grills or banging their heads against them.
3. Bile being extracted twice a day, 50 milliliters each time.
Jill told Reuters in an interview,
"It's a lifetime of confinement and pain, one had lived like that for 21 years."
Bear on farm caged for 20 years
Help Us Stop Bear Farming
The World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) states...
"During bile milking; the bears show signs of severe distress. Moaning and banging of heads against the cage is common, while some bears were seen to chew their own paws".
"Between the ages of five and ten, bears may stop producing bile. They are then put in another cage, where they wait, either until death comes through sickness or starvation, or they are killed for their paws and gall bladders".
Please add your voice against this barbaric and inhuman act in support of a petition to end this horrendous practice. You can sign the petition at ...
Demand for bear parts is soaring even though accepted alternatives exist in traditional medicines.
BEARS Being Killed In China
News Stories about the bear bile trade
- The Unbearable Trade in Bear Parts and Bile | The Humane Society of the United States
- There are about 7,000 bears on bear-bile farms in China. The captive animals are used to supply the voracious Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) market. Bear bile has...
- The horrific plight of China’s Caged Bile Bears
- Jill Robinson's life was forever changed when she stole away from her tour group on a Chinese bear bile farm and descended a flight of stairs to a dark basement, where she saw the dim outlines of cages.
- 7000 Bears will Die in Chinese Bear Farms from Abuse - Aznmedia Community
- Sharing the planet with humans has been bad for bears. Admittedly, that could be said of most other creatures, apart from bacteria. But bears had a particularly hard time because they looked like men - or so early men thought.
- Lucky few find sanctuary from horror of Chinese bear farms
- Boris a rather confusingly named female Asian black bear, is one of the luckiest creatures in China: she even has physiotherapy when she needs it. She and seven others are inmates of China's first bear sanctuary, which opened yesterday in the town of Panyu, near the Hong Kong border.
- Chinese doctors to call for 'cruel' bear farms to be closed - Telegraph
- China's bear farms, where for decades bile has been extracted from the
endangered animals in horrific conditions, have been condemned by eminent
Chinese scientists.
June 2009 - China killing dogs again
Please sign petition to stop the killing
- Take Action: Stand with Chinese Activists Against Cruel Dog Culls | The Humane Society of the United States
- June 2009-A shocking dog massacre is happening in Hanzhong, Shaanxi Province, China. More than 20,000 dogs-many of whom were registered and vaccinated household pets-have reportedly died a brutal death due to government orders.
- Change.org - PETITION: "Stand with Chinese advocates against cruel dog culls"
- THE PHOTO ABOVE: THEY ARE TAKING THIS GIRLS DOG AWAY FROM HER TO BE KILLED!
It has happened again. In a brutal campaign targeting not only strays but pets, authorities in the city of Yongxian, China have been slaughtering
54,429 DOGS brutally killed In 2006
2006 Dog Culling
The Reason For Killing Dogs In China
In 2006, there were 2,651 deaths in humans caused by rabies. Dogs were blamed. On November 7, 2006, the Chinese government called for a nation-wide culling (killing) of all dogs except military and police dogs.54,429 dogs were brutally slain on the streets -- whether or not they had been inoculated against rabies already. Over 4,000 dogs, who had already been inoculate and could not have caught nor transmitted the disease were killed anyway.
The world and the Chinese people were shocked and protest, petitions and in China the people took to the street protesting the killing of innocent dogs.
For a 4 minute recap of the events that transpired, please watch the following short video.
2006 - A BLOODY Year Of The Dog
Chinese People Protesting Dog Cull
Results After Protests And Petitions From Around The World
As the video above stated, after petitions from around the world and protests at home, the Chinese government made minor concessions. The protests and petitions continue.
CATS are being exterminated (killed) for the 2008 Olympics.
2008 Cats Being KILLED For The Olympics
Why are they doing that you might ask. Because they want to clean up the Capital before the Olympic Games! To that end -- to kill the most cats -- the government has issued a warning that cats carry terrible diseases and may have contributed to the SARS outbreak in 2003! They have people so paranoid that owners are turning their cats lose to be captured by special collection teams.
Below is a picture of one of the collection teams working. Be warned, it is appalling. I normally would not show any type of picture like this. But, it shows the way the Chinese are doing their so called clean-up or what I'd call a cleansing.
Articles On The 2008 Cat Killing For The Olympics
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Olympics clean-up Chinese style: Inside Beijings shocking death camp for cats | Mail Online
Thousands of pet cats in Beijing are being abandon more...7 points
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Animal rights in China | A small voice calling | Economist.com
HUMAN rights, or the lack of them, have long been a more...7 points
Boycott The 2008 Olympics In China
What You Can Do
Do NOT participate in the 2008 Olympics in any way.
1. Do NOT read about the games in newspapers.
2. Do NOT read about them on the Internet.
3. Do NOT watch them on TV.
4. Do NOT listen to Olympic news on the radio.
5. Do NOT go to China for the Olympics.
6. Do NOT buy anything made in China.
7. Do NOT participate as an athlete.
Do NOT make any monetary contribution to China what-so-ever.
China 2008 Olympic News
- IOC "surprised" by Games web censorship
- BEIJING (Reuters) - The media should have been told they would not have total Internet freedom before arriving for the Beijing Olympics, a senior IOC official said on Thursday, as rights groups piled criticism on both the IOC and host China.
More Things YOU Can Do To Protest These Crimes
Albert Einstein quote
Sign The Boycott China Petition
Please boycott China AND sign the petition at: Boycott China
Show them that we care about the animals around the world, including China's animals. That what they do to animals will affect their profits!
Contact The Chinese Embassy
Chinese Embassy
2201 Wisconsin Avenue, N.W.,
Washington D.C. 20007
Tel: (202) 338-6688, (202) 588-9760
Fax: (202) 588-9760
To find the Chinese Consulate nearest to you, click Chinese Consulates (www.visarite.com/chnConsulate.htm).
Petitions and important sites
Ways to protest to authorites in China
Here are more resources, organizations and news articles about China's crimes against animals. If you know of a site that is not listed, please add it. Please vote on the one(s) you think are the best information. Thank you.
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Dancing Bears in Bulgaria/Romania
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ACTAsia for animals - Dog Cull
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What ARE You Doing To Tell China To Stop These Crimes?
How Can You Make Your Voice Heard
Please check every item that you ARE doing to protest the Chinese treatment of animals. Please add any that are missing and don't forget to vote for it (you may have to refresh the screen 1st). Thank you.
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Never buying fur.
27 points
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I am boycotting ALL products made in China until these crimes stop.
19 points
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I am boycotting the Olympics completely.
No TV, radio, newspaper, internet articles about t more...18 points
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Signed petition(s) against the trade in fur.
16 points
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Signed petition(s) against cat and dog meat industry.
16 points
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Signed petition(s) against bear farms.
16 points
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Signed petition(s) to boycott the Olympics.
11 points
If not you, who?
If not now, when?
News about Tortoise and Frogs abuses
- Tortoise Trust Web - Tesco sells live turtles in China
- The level of suffering caused to turtles and frogs in Chinese markets is well documented. These animals are shipped and handled with no regard to their welfare and without any attempt to minimise their suffering. They are maintained in-store under totally unacceptable conditions, and are killed in a grossly inhumane and barbaric fashion. These animals are essentially dissected alive. They have highly developed sensory capabilities, and without question suffer the most extreme pain and distress over an extended period.
News on China's Dog & Cat Meat trade
- Animals Asia asks Beijing to ban sale of dog meat permanently
- Animals Asia Foundation has called on the Beijing authorities to make permanent a temporary ban on the sale of dog meat at official Olympic restaurants during the Games period.
- Protests In China Over Eating Cats
- While animal lovers in Beijing protested the killing of cats for food on Thursday, a butcher in Guangdong province _ where felines are the main ingredient in a famous soup _ just shrugged her shoulders and wielded her cleaver. "Cats have a strong flavor. Dogs taste much better, but if you really want cat meat, I can have it delivered by tomorrow," said the butcher, who gave only her surname, Huang.
- Girl Leads Guangdong Protest Against Eating Cats | chinaSMACK
- A 17-year-old Chinese girl organizes and leads a protest in Guangdong, China trying to stop a shipment of cats that will be sold as food for Cantonese diners.
- Dog & Cat Eating in China - ANIMALS ASIA
- While some countries in Asia such as Hong Kong, the Philippines and Taiwan have banned the practice of dog eating, evidence shows that in China, the biggest dog eating country in the world, it continues to thrive.
- fighting international dog meat trade
- New Zealand dog breeders are being targeted as a source of dogs for human consumption in Asia%u2026
Around the world there is mounting concern about the expansion of an international dog meat trade. Whilst certain countries in Asia including the Philippines and Taiwan have banned the practice of dog eating, dogs and sometimes cats are still used as food animals in many parts of Asia, most notably, in Korea, China and Vietnam. Recent evidence shows that the market is expanding with the growth of the dog meat and breeding industry in China. - Dog Eating Carnival Banned in China | petMD
- Beijing - A dog eating carnival in China dating back more than 600 years has been banned after public outrage at the cruel way the animals are slaughtered, state media said Wednesday.
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themeanviolets Apr 23, 2012 @ 8:31 pm | delete
- Great cause. I appreciate this lens. Thanks for sharing.
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bloomingrose
Jan 17, 2012 @ 1:45 am | delete
- This kind of thing is hard for me to read,but it is necessary sometimes. I am going to link out to this lens from my lens against puppy mills - this is another important way to spread humane activism. Facebook liked as well. Oh! and I want to emphasize that you should absolutely never buy a pet product made in China, they do not have the safety provisions that we do in this country.
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JoshK47
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- Amazing job on this lens - I definitely need to pass this on to some animal-loving friends of mine. Blessed.
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- We as Americans rail against other nations -- rightly so -- for their treatment of animals. Some Asian countries use dogs and cats as a food source -- some actually torture the animals because they believe increased adrenalin makes the meat tenderer. I've seen video of cats skinned and cooked while still alive, in Korea. One scene made me weep openly; seeing a cat still moving after skinning and cooking. Just as I was almost compelled to hate Asians for their barbaric cruelty, I remember reading about how Black Africans were packed into the putrid holes of slave ships like sardines, in the slavery trade where many died from sickness and disease. Those who survived were forcibly separated from other family members, placed in neck shackles and sold as chattle. They were beaten and tortured mercilesstly, at times for no reason because they were not considered human or had feelings. I used to live not far from a packing house in Detroit where pigs were slaughtered. Often I would hear the screams of these animals being killed -- don't tell me they didn't suffer pain and anxiety. No thanks to the "sport" of dog fighting, breeders selectively bred dogs for their ferocity, thereby making nearly all pit-bull terrier offspring potentially dangerous. Until humans recognize the tragety of senseless cruelty against our fellow creatures and other humans, we pass on a hideous legacy to posterity that will end all life eventually
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