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Category: Uncategorized | Date: May 13 2008 | By: admin

We are numbed by news of human killings every day – Iraq, Gaza, Afghanistan, Zimbabwe,….frankly my I can’t understand it. But what we rarely hear about is the daily wildlife death toll.

I’ve come across even more madness of the intelligent ape. In what may be the most memorable day of their lives, two boys in Sutter County California were convicted of a wildlife killing spree in which they slaughtered at least 13 deer a turkey and a vulture. They have just been sentenced to 40 and 50 hours of community services and of 2,400 and 2,000 each, and they won’t be able to hunt again until they turn 21. The news article doesn’t explain why these boys did it.

Do you think their punishment was fair? I think they should be banned from hunting for life! In fact, I wish that we could use our intelligence to turn people around – rehabilitate them. Perhaps these boys should be put into a program that inspires them to care about nature?

Ok if that was illogical, what about the use of rare and endangered species in Chinese diet and medicine?  I’m all for culture, but not when it’s killing our environment. I don’t know how many wild animals die each year – but reading this and this made me extremely sad. How can we make a difference with this kind of appetite?

Its not just the species but the cruelty that these animals endure that makes me feel positively depressed. Sky News did a special under cover story on it and Sir Paul McCartney says he’ll never perform again in China after seeing the film on cruelty.

One real hero has emerged. Her name is Jill Robinson who has started a cause to rescue bears from bile farms through the Asia Animal Foundation

And talking about China and animals, have you ever heard of the animal Olympics? And abuse that happens in zoos where shows include dog fights and lions attacking goats.

What happened to humans that we can be so cruel? I know that animal cruelty happens everywhere, but somehow the scale in China seems deeper, they don’t have a law against animal cruelty, and some people are calling for an Olympic boycott based on this.

I was planning a personal trip to China this year, but when I came across all of this information about animal cruelty there I cancelled those plans. I wish I could do something to change things, to make people more humane and caring. Any ideas out there?

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Tags: animal cruelty, animaly olympics, China, olympics boycott, wildlife suffering

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