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athos Gold Member Offline Re-educate barbarians Posts: 6406 Hong Kong Gender:	Re: Must see: Yulin dog and cat festival Reply #15 - Jun 24^th, 2015 at 12:07pm double plus good wrote on Jun 23^rd, 2015 at 4:28pm: Have you ever eaten dog athos? Not since you became a Puff.
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Re: Must see: Yulin dog and cat festival
Reply #16 - Jun 24^th, 2015 at 12:23pm

Very_Vinnie wrote on Jun 23^rd, 2015 at 10:35am:

I don't eat dog, cat or pig
The pig - being the most intelligent - and raised amid unbearable suffering

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Breeding sows are confined to "gestation crates"
- for a period of up to 114 days
- and then moved to one of THESE "farrowing crates"

At the end of their pregnancy the sows are transferred to an even more confining “farrowing crate,” which has an additional concrete platform so that that the piglets can nurse on the mother’s milk.

To get the sows to the farrowing crates the mothers are beaten and prodded. Once in the farrowing crate, the sows also have her legs tied apart so that they do not push away their nursing piglets in order to get a brief rest.

After ten days to three weeks, the baby piglets are wrenched away from their mothers.

The mother pigs are then re-impregnated and returned to the gestation crates where the whole process is repeated again and again. Pushed to the limits of their reproductive capacity, the average sow gives birth to 20 piglets a year for up to three or four years. Once a sow has been drained physically and mentally, she is no longer considered useful and is sent for slaughter.

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Re: Must see: Yulin dog and cat festival
Reply #17 - Jun 24^th, 2015 at 7:12pm

____ wrote on Jun 20^th, 2015 at 10:53pm:

Live animal trade is so first world ethics ... or other treatment of animals like caged hens or pigs.

As horrific as the opening post, clean up our back yard first before pointing fingers.

Does that mean you will stop pointing fingers politically until you have cleaned up your own backyard.

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Re: Must see: Yulin dog and cat festival
Reply #18 - Jun 24^th, 2015 at 7:15pm

polite_gandalf wrote on Jun 24^th, 2015 at 11:33am:

To be honest I don't really see any difference with the way we treat chickens for meat and eggs. And of course, as someone mentioned, the greyhounds. Thousands of greyhounds are slaughtered who don't "make the cut".

Lets stop being hypocrites eh?

I agree. We should eat whales instead.

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Re: Must see: Yulin dog and cat festival
Reply #19 - Jun 25^th, 2015 at 11:43am

Very_Vinnie wrote on Jun 24^th, 2015 at 12:23pm:

Very_Vinnie wrote on Jun 23^rd, 2015 at 10:35am:

I don't eat dog, cat or pig
The pig - being the most intelligent - and raised amid unbearable suffering

[/http://www.abeatingheart.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/GESTATION-CRATES.jpg

Breeding sows are confined to "gestation crates"
- for a period of up to 114 days
- and then moved to one of THESE "farrowing crates"

http://animalwelfaretaiwan.webs.com/Farrowing-3.jpg

At the end of their pregnancy the sows are transferred to an even more confining “farrowing crate,” which has an additional concrete platform so that that the piglets can nurse on the mother’s milk.

To get the sows to the farrowing crates the mothers are beaten and prodded. Once in the farrowing crate, the sows also have her legs tied apart so that they do not push away their nursing piglets in order to get a brief rest.

After ten days to three weeks, the baby piglets are wrenched away from their mothers.

The mother pigs are then re-impregnated and returned to the gestation crates where the whole process is repeated again and again. Pushed to the limits of their reproductive capacity, the average sow gives birth to 20 piglets a year for up to three or four years. Once a sow has been drained physically and mentally, she is no longer considered useful and is sent for slaughter.

This is in Australia.

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Do we need to be always politically correct.
In the world of universal deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

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Re: Must see: Yulin dog and cat festival
Reply #20 - Jun 25^th, 2015 at 6:28pm

freediver wrote on Jun 24^th, 2015 at 7:15pm:

polite_gandalf wrote on Jun 24^th, 2015 at 11:33am:

To be honest I don't really see any difference with the way we treat chickens for meat and eggs. And of course, as someone mentioned, the greyhounds. Thousands of greyhounds are slaughtered who don't "make the cut".

Lets stop being hypocrites eh?

I agree. We should eat whales instead.

I didn't say we should stop eating chickens.

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freediver Gold Member Offline www.ozpolitic.com Posts: 49371 At my desk.	Re: Must see: Yulin dog and cat festival Reply #21 - Jun 25^th, 2015 at 8:01pm Good point. We should eat whales as well.
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polite_gandalf Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 20027 Canberra Gender:	Re: Must see: Yulin dog and cat festival Reply #22 - Jun 26^th, 2015 at 10:25am hilarious one line quips aside - FD do you see any hypocrisy in the way the west acts all morally outraged over eating dogs and cats in Asia?
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freediver Gold Member Offline www.ozpolitic.com Posts: 49371 At my desk.	Re: Must see: Yulin dog and cat festival Reply #23 - Jun 26^th, 2015 at 7:15pm We should eats dogs and cats also. We kill enough of them. I think most westerners are decent enough not to get outraged over what others choose to eat. Except in the case of whales and dolphins of course. Nepal also has a dog festival, using local spices:
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