Urgent! Do your part to stop the skinning of LIVE animals in CHINA

[Vanda]

PLEASE READ ALL THE WAY THRU! I came across this on another site and had to post it.


2,000,000 cats and dogs are sadistically skinned alive every year in China for their fur and left to die slowly in shock and excrutiating pain.

"Because", say the Chinese: "its easier to skin a live warm animal that's convulsing in agony than a dead body".

Please go to this site. Theres a video on there, i couldnt finish watching it.

Sign the petition.
To: The Government of the Peoples Republic of China

Please urgently introduce legislation in China to:

1. Make it illegal to slaughter cats, dogs and other animals by skinning them alive for their fur
2. Protect all animals against mistreatment and cruelty of any nature
3. Ban the export from China of cat and dog fur and any products containing cat or dog fur
4. Ban cat and dog fur from being used wholly or partly in the manufacture of products in China
5. Introduce severe penalties to enforce the legislation

http://www.animalsaviors.org/index.html

**if the link doesnt work just highlight and paste**

Here's Why the petition will make a difference:

China has emerged as one of the world’s most powerful economies but is still mistrusted and feared (as distinct from respected) because since emerging from behind the bamboo curtain, it’s government has done little to dispel its autocratic image and apparent disregard for human rights. Quite apart from human rights, decent people everywhere could never accept a society so depraved and bereft of common decency as to accept the skinning of live animals as acceptable behaviour.

It’s burgeoning economy has resulted from flooding the world with cheap consumer products produced by a cheap unregulated work force. A fact that is understandable, having regard to its enormous population and fantastic work ethic.
In turn, China has developed an insatiable appetite for raw product from other countries and governments keen to export to China are reluctant to criticise or offend the Chinese government.

Given this background, will your government impose economic sanctions against China or openly criticise the Chinese government or demand that it puts a stop to the Chinese cat and dog fur trade? Most unlikely. However, there will surely be individuals within governments, so incensed and horrified by the trade that they will support Our Cause.

The Chinese government is well aware of the economic power play behind the scenes. It also knows it has a long way to go earn acceptance from the free world.

And make no mistake, China absolutely craves acceptance as a world leader that is trusted and respected and there are emerging signs that it is prepared to adopt more acceptable and responsible policies to earn that acceptance.

It knows that if it behaves or permits behaviour that is abhorrent to people of the democratic world, it will not earn the trust or respect it craves. Its our duty to show China that it can take a single , but highly significant step towards overcoming the prejudice of the millions of free-thinking decent people, if it recognises animal rights and, in particular, abolishes the abhorrent trade in cat and dog fur.

Cat and dog pelts sell for about US$1 each and every year, 2,000,000 cats and dogs suffer a horrific death, skinned alive for the pelts.

For what?
1. An insignificant contribution towards the Chinese economy - a few million US$; and
2. A clear message to the world that so long as the Chinese government permits the trade, China is not fit to take its place as a leading nation and certainly not one that is entitled to any trust or respect.

The “adverse fallout” and abhorrence for the Chinese government resulting from the trade will far exceeds the paltry contribution it makes towards China’s economy. It is in China’s interest, to abolish the trade.

It’s our duty to tell the world about the trade and kick up such a stink that our message reverberates around the world.

Remember Tianamen Square.

Let’s make this another Tianamen Square – this time, for the animals.

Please sign the Online Petition. It’s the First Step in Our Fight!”
http://www.animalsaviors.org/index.html Sign The Petition

[hash matharu]

they will suffer one day!!!!! i dont kno how they could find it in their heart to do it


seriously wen will they get some sense!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

im starting to dislike chinese a bit be coz they are so cruel to animals
i kno not all off them are but still.
any ideas on wat we can do people

[David Pettinger]

yes there is alot you can do for them...............these dogs.......well all animals, mankind has turned there back on them, they have feelings, the pain they go through is incredible, ive been to most of these provinces in china, some of these dogs have still got there collar on, you say come here boy, try touch them in the cage...........there in a real mess, yet they perk up wag there tail, it breaks my heart it really does, dont think that i just pass by, ive got into lots of trouble, with my views and opinion, at the end of the day, these creatures in any country should not be skinned alive, i thought id seen alot of life and i have, i never thought this could happen, ive seen cats dipped in hot oil then hung up and skinned, cats have by what ive seen the highest pain threshold, ive seen them dipped, right under and there still fitting for there life, when they come out, they dont dip dogs, they hang them up and start skinning, if they struggle and they do, then they get a hit..................ok you want to help, then either, watch the video freeze frame print off hundreds of copy, and throw them off a tall building on a windy day, also copy the video, get a projector, and project the footage onto the side of a building very public the better.................when i first saw this in shanxi i fell to the ground and cried, i thought i had stumbled on a mass murder, dogs every place you stepped still walking around with no skin, the video only show a little of what goes on, go shanxi, some dogs try walk for over an hour, i cried so much, these dogs in incredible agony still respond to a friendly face, i felt yellow and a coward...........so so helpless................please dont look the other way

[Michael William Shea]

I have traveled to China a million of times as well as Korea, I have never seen any of this.