How China prepares for the Olympics
I was just visiting one of my favorite blogs, After Atalanta, and after I made a comment on a post about Chinese women athletes and the Olympics, it occurred to me that maybe a lot of people are not familiar with one of China's "preparation for the Olympics" projects: Officials have gone door to door and killed about 50,000 "superfluous" pet dogs, beating them to death in front of their people.
There has not been a peep out of the IOC about this. Or the U.S. government. Business as usual. I thought it was the most disgusting news story of 2006. The Chinese government will rave about its "successful" Olympic hosting, I'm sure.
There has not been a peep out of the IOC about this. Or the U.S. government. Business as usual. I thought it was the most disgusting news story of 2006. The Chinese government will rave about its "successful" Olympic hosting, I'm sure.
Labels: animal abuse, Chinese government, Olympics
posted by Diane at 7:14 PM
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2 Comments:
I had not heard of this. What is the rationale offered?
I knew about, during the bid process, protests due to China's human rights violations (which I thought the US had very little ground in bringing given its own stellar history) but nothing about animal abuse.
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ken, at
8:29 AM
The alleged rationale was that there were too many animals on the street and out and about, which would not look good to visitors. So they killed them.
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Diane, at
8:38 AM
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