Re: Note of appreciation

On Feb 22, 2:46 pm, George M. Middius <cmndr_geo...@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
They eat dogs in China. Does that bother anybody?

Some people it does. Dr. William L. Pierce was apoplectic about it,
commenting that he would extirpate China to stop the practice in one
of his radio speeches. He was particularly upset about the fact that
the sweet ollies break the bones and otherwise grievously torture the
beasts before killing them in the belief that it makes the meat more
tender and flavorful. He also commented on the true fact that there
are no tiny or insignificant number of Chinese who savor human fetuses
as a tonic and esculent comestible.

Now, the Hindus think it's equally reprehensible that we of the West,
except a few veggie loons like Bob Barker and Chrissie Hynde, are
ravenous eaters of cow flesh. I well remember a conversation with a
female engineer, a young woman from India who shortly thereafter went
back because her parents insisted she marry within her caste, who
worked for the company I did in a small Midwest city about twenty
years ago. She was quite a good engineer actually and designed a
circuit using one three terminal regulator and one pass transistor (a
then common horizontal output transistor which is today NLA as CRT
televisions are nearly extinct) that replaced a $300 build cost
assembly then in use. At any rate we were chatting one Sunday when a
anti-abortion rally was taking place in the town's main square, a
picturesque place where, incidentally, the nearest abortion clinic was
three hours' drive away. She didn't understand what the fuss was about
abortion. In India abortion was sort of looked down on, though they
did occur. The main reason anyone would want one, in her millieu was
for sex selection purposes. I asked, "Didn't girls get pregnant when
they didn't want to, like before marriage?" She said of course, but
rarely, before marriage most people "put it in the bottom or they used
the oral sex". But what she really did not understand, was why these
people got so upset over abortion. Yes, the fetus was the human life,
she said. "But these same people thought nothing of going to this and
then they eat a cow!" Killing a cow was worse than murder.

I myself have never eaten dog and have killed one or two only out of
extreme necessity when they needed putting out of their misery. Cats,
feral cats, are a different story, I've shot quite a number of them.
I've killed probably thousands, although I have never tortured one.
I've always endeavored to put them down humanely and efficiently. I
use a centerfire smallbore rifle and hit them cleanly causing instant
death in nearly all cases.

The same mentality has to be examined with regard to the treatment
of inanimate things too. The Koreans not only eat dog and cat, they
like to rip apart old electronic equipment for certain parts they
think have magic juju-like the Chinese use rhino horn and tiger penis.
But there are American audio-shitheads who go to hamfests, but every
old piece of Tek and HP equipment with tubes they can for a few
dollars, rip out the tubes and throw the rest in a dumpster.
Electronically ignorant "tube rollers" buy these tubes at inflated
prices.

At any rate, for reference, here are Pierce's comments:


"When I spoke about the psychological differences between Chinese and
Europeans, I focused on the eating habits of the Chinese.
Specifically,
I mentioned their habit of eating aborted human fetuses and also
domestic dogs and cats and body parts from various wild animals,
including those belonging to endangered species, and I gave tiger
penis
and rhinoceros horn as examples.

I also remarked that what the Chinese do to cats and dogs is much
worse
than merely eating them. Some listeners questioned this statement.
"What
could the Chinese do to cats and dogs that would be worse than eating
them?" I was asked. What's worse is the way the cats and dogs are
treated before and during being killed for eating -- and also before
and
during being skinned for their fur. And I should warn you that I'm a
bit
of an extremist on the subject of cruelty to animals. I abhor cruelty,
whether the perpetrator is Chinese or European. I abhor the practices
of
White men who trap fur-bearing animals. I am horrified especially by
the
killing of big cats to make fur coats or jackets for rich women, but I
am extremely hostile even to the breeding of mink and other small
mammals just so that they can be skinned to help the female lemmings
who
can afford it be more fashionable. The fact that there are White
people
who are cruel, callous, and indifferent to the suffering of animals
and
who are unmoved by the killing of such beautiful and magnificent
creatures as the big cats, however, doesn't mean that we are just as
bad
as the Chinese in this regard. There are substantial differences. In
general, there seems to be no feeling at all among the Chinese and
other
Asians for the feelings of animals. There seems to be no
understanding,
no comprehension, of the White man's sympathy for animals. To the
Chinese an animal is simply an object, which may or may not have any
economic value. If it does have economic value, then it should be used
in any way that is profitable.

In addition to this general inability to sympathize with animals, the
Chinese do have their peculiar culinary habits and their peculiar
notions about diet. The consequence is that cats and dogs intended to
be
eaten or skinned are treated in an almost unbelievably inhumane
manner.
The cats generally are strangled or drowned before being skinned, so
as
not to damage the fur. Some dogs, who do not have a cat's ability to
inflict damage on their tormentors with their claws, are actually
skinned alive. And there is the Chinese gourmet's peculiar notion that
the more painful a death the animal suffers, the more tender and tasty
is the meat. So, to please the customer, a dog or cat will be selected
from a cage in a restaurant, then taken into the kitchen to have all
its
bones broken before it is slaughtered. The customer, seated at his
table, can enjoy the screams of agony coming from the kitchen as he
awaits his meal.

There's a great deal of very unpleasant information on this sort of
thing available at the Web site of the Humane Society of the United
States. That's hsus.org. The Humane Society even has sent undercover
investigators with video cameras into China to record some of the
horrible things that are done to cats and dogs there.

The subject on which I received the most questions was my report on
the
eating of human fetuses by Chinese, who believe the practice is
healthy,
just as they regard powdered rhinoceros horn as an aphrodisiac and
tiger
penis as a potency enhancer. Some people who wrote to me just didn't
believe that the Chinese could be so different from Europeans -- or at
least, they didn't want to believe it. Some of them accused me of
being
untruthful. Others simply requested proof. Actually, there's a great
deal of evidence available on the subject, but the language
difference,
along with the characteristic Chinese suspicion of outsiders, does
pose
some difficulties in gathering it. For this reason I'll restrict my
evidence today to an English-language Chinese source, the Hong Kong
newspaper Eastern Express. All the quotes which follow are from a
lengthy article which appeared in the April 12, 1995, issue of the
Eastern Express. A reporter visited several hospitals in mainland
China
seeking aborted fetuses for eating and found that they were readily
available. I quote from the Eastern Express: " < <

http://www.natvan.com/pub/2001/050501.txt
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