Critter News

OCTOBER 6, 2011

The call was issued after the animal rights group discovered that the fur were sourced from the raccoon dog in China, ABC Radio Australia reports. About 10 million dogs in China are killed for their fur, prompting an animal rights group to seek a ban on fur trade to Australia. However, the fur is passed off as sheep skin.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

" Dog Days in China " is a small piece with no gruesome slideshow. But it's also remarkable in that Roger Cohen, a 50-something man who writes for the New York Times, wonders: But do pigs have any more or less of a soul than dogs? Do they suffer any more or less in death? Dog was not easy for me," he writes.

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Pigs Dogs Meat Ethics 100

Animal Person

FEBRUARY 6, 2010

When we left off , the New York Times' Roger Cohen had eaten dog while in China, and wasn't thrilled about it emotionally. Logically, he admits it does make perfect sense to eat dogs if you eat pigs and cows. However I cannot see a rational argument for saying eating dogs or cats is barbaric while eating pork or beef is fine.

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Pigs Ethics Suffering Meat 100

Animal Person

JULY 26, 2009

There has to be something I can do to reduce all of the suffering of the animals we use as food, I thought. And then I read THE CHINA STUDY and was shocked to learn how unhealthy the Standard American Diet is--even cow's milk, which I thought I should be having three servings of per day! I call it VBM: Vegan Between Meals.

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Vegan Animal Suffering Rabbits 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2023

Evil people in Southern China catch the bird and eat it. If you are suffering from depression, you just have found another reason to go birding. However, it does not look nearly as attractive then as it does in spring – when I saw it for the first time this April.

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Monkeys Birds South Korea Owls 147

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 24, 2006

According to this Associated Press story, if you are wearing a Sean John jacket with fur trim purchased from Macy's, that trim might have come from a dog indigenous to Asia known as a "raccoon dog." But when HSUS purchased several of these jackets, the jackets arrived bearing the labels "Made in China" and "genuine raccoon fur."

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