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Shenzhen becomes first Chinese city to ban eating cats and dogs
- draw_down 7y agoThe ban covers other animals as well, but every western media story I saw on this specifically only says cats and dogs in the headline.
- behnamoh 7y agoSo what? Including all animals in the title would make it long. Also, this news is not that big a deal; it only goes to negate the CCP's propaganda about the source of the disease!
- JCharante 7y agoYes it would make it long because the ban is actually a whitelist, not a blacklist. This means that among other things, Penguins and Woolly Mammoths are now banned from private slaughter.
- kyuudou 7y agoformer expat in China, youtuber serpentza, finally unleashed the hounds with his experiences about animal eating over there: https://youtu.be/rbHxeOQA1Mc?t=505 https://youtu.be/rbHxeOQA1Mc?t=505 Hard to argue with. Totally gross, too. But I love eating cows, chickens and fish and see dogs as companions so whatever.
- DeonPenny 7y agoDid they do this during sars and they lifted soon after
- xenospn 7y agoI've visited China several times, one of those times I traveled all over the country for thousands of miles and stayed in many small towns, villages and giant cities, and spent many months over dozens of trips in other east Asian countries. I am 100% certain the Chinese will never, ever, EVER change their eating habits, even if it meant they were all going to lose their firstborn sons. It's never going to happen. We will see Americans willfully giving up their guns and embracing communism and Jews eating Pork before the Chinese give up dogs, cats, bats and everything else you can find at a neighborhood Chinese market.
- hear5hjae5rhj 7y agoClarification, selling dog meat for food has been illegal in all of People's Republic of China since 2015, and many provinces had local regulations earlier than this. The new law goes a step further and bans individual consumption, a law no other country has seen the need to pass. In contrast, USA did not ban sale of dog meat until 2018, and private consumption is not illegal in the USA unless conflicting with other animal protection laws.