Dipcdame
Very Well-Known Member
You're not serious are you? This bit is a joke right? :?
I agree with the fact that animal cruelty is horrific, but everyone needs to take a step back and realise that most Chinese (particularly rural) live in very poor conditions themselves - an animal represents food in a country where famines which killed millions aren't in the distant past but are in living memory. When human life is reasonably cheap, then animal life is even cheaper.
It is easy to be high and mighty when we have plenty of food, good education, a strong welfare system and a reliable, democratic government, but try to just condemn the action rather than making racist comments about a culture that is a polar opposite to our own. By claiming that every culture that is different to our own is 'barbaric' or 'uncivilised' we are just buying into the American rhetoric that whatever isn't Western democracy is inherently 'evil'. And look where that has got us so far!!!
Ummmmm...... even if they are killing for food (which they are NOt IN THIS CASE), there is no need to use torture to do it.