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Canada Promoting Seal Meat and Fur in China

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Shea said by telephone from China today. That's what we're doing in China. Tags: canada. Of course, we're disappointed in their actions," Ms. That being said, there are many other markets out there. We're trying to expand on the market that's here." Maybe they can start trading them for bear gall bladders and tiger parts.

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Eating Cats and Dogs Could Become Illegal in China

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Tags: meat cats dogs china. The legislation is only being drafted right now and there's a long way to go I suspect before such laws would pass. You can already read the excuses being cited in this article.

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Demand for Wildlife Products on the Rise in China

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From the China Daily. Eating wild animals is also a traditional practice in southern China. Illegal trade in tiger meat and bones is also alive, continuing to threaten the extinction of an already depleted species, he said. The Chinese want them for exotic foods and for medicine.

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Domesticated Dogs May Have All Originated in China

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Here is an interesting article about research out of Sweden that suggests that all domesticated dogs may have originated from China. Tags: china. That is the proposal of a team of geneticists led by Peter Savolainen of the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.

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Dog Meat Still on the Menu in Beijing

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Looks like the ban on dog meat during the Olympics was a farce. Tags: dog meat china. Big surprise. I'm sure it will be more out in the open along with their choking pollution problem once the games end.

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On the Banning of Eating Cats and Dogs in China

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Let's deconstruct: Legal experts in China are proposing a ban on the eating of dogs and cats. He often has insight into why something might be different in action than what I think in theory when it comes to China. But my initial reaction is that this is like Americans giving up "red meat." What do you think?

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Roger Cohen Realizes Dogs=Pigs, Sort Of

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" Dog Days in China " is a small piece with no gruesome slideshow. If you eat meat you cannot logically find it morally or ethically repugnant to eat a particular meat (I’m setting cannibalism aside here.). My bout of anguish began a few weeks back on a wintry night in central China, in the restless megalopolis of Chongqing.

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