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Another factor besides habit and status: perhaps Chinese culture is simply more accepting of animal cruelty?
by MarkMc 12y ago
Another factor besides habit and status: perhaps Chinese culture is simply more accepting of animal cruelty?
- masklinn 12y ago"Western culture" has very similar (and extant wrt sturgeons amongst others if mostly curbed when it comes to mammals) issues, Chinese weren't the ones slaughtering charismatic megafauna for fun and status symbols in the late 19th century and early 20th century.
- maaku 12y agoNews flash: every culture has barbaric ghosts in its past. It's what we do here and now that matters.
- masklinn 12y agoNews flash: "western culture" is still dynamiting endangered sturgeons (and other roe-producing species passing their roe as caviar[0]) [0] https://medium.com/full-belly-reports/every-spring-game-warden-rob-farr-patrols-the-reservoirs-of-the-osage-river-in-central-missouri-becaf5b489c8 https://medium.com/full-belly-reports/every-spring-game-ward...