Does culture Justify eating Dog Meat ?

Dog meat is consumed in a lot of different places around the world, Korea , China,Taiwan,Vietnam,Switzerland, The Arctics,Polynesia,India,Philippines,Nigeria,Mexico,Canada.

Among these Korea, Vietnam and Taiwan have dog meat as part of their everyday Cuisine. Other countries have pockets here and there where people use Dog meat.

Culture is the justification used by most of the people using dog meat. They justify what they are doing by saying that in their culture dogs are used for meat. This is not true even in Korea or Vietnam Dogs are not solely used for meat they are as else where used as pets and guards. The Korean Police even has a dog squad. Dogs trust their masters, and dog farmers are using this very trust to kill these dogs. Dogs get attached to humans easily and therefor they bond with humans and this trust is used by the farmers to kill the dogs easily.

Culture has nothing to do with dog meat, its economics for these farmers dogs are easy to raise compared to other animals require less food per kilogram sold and require less expenditure per kilo than other meats. Another fact is that they have interbred dogs to get easily weight gaining breeds. Another important fact is that dogs are easy to breed. Dogs are also less sensitive to food that is they can be fed almost anything. Veterinary science is much more advance for dogs than meat animals and medicines cheaper.

Culture has the least to do with these. Dogs are called mans best friend for a reason the trust that dogs keep on their masters and vis versa now can exploitation of that trust for economic reason be justified by culture when it has nothing at all to do with culture?

Remember:-

Eating dog meat does not

• increases a man's sexual virility
• cure any ailments
• increase chance of bearing male child
• increase intelligence
• make one's soul pure
• do anything but kill a dog
  
  

DOGS ARE NOT TO BE EATEN

Slaughtering Birds To Get Government Assistance Justified?

As soon as farmers hear about bird flu they start slaughtering birds in the thousands without even doing preliminary tests. Avian Flu is dangerous agreed but these farmers are not doing it for that reason, they spread the news themselves using their media connections and false reports and then they slaughter their birds in thousands and they make sure they slaughter the cheapest of their lots (like egg laying batches etc).

This is done so as to get the monetary benefits third world Governments are offering farmers. This is usually done when the meat prices are in season lows. Most third world governments are offering monetary compensation to farmers so that they do not hesitate to destroy their birds.

The farmers are usually non nationalities with high influences. They use their influence to make a false alert situation in these countries and utilise this to get monetary benefits and other tax benefits from the local government. This also has another effect of putting people into false alert and creating a situation of panic which are utilised by fraudulent medicine companies by offering vaccines. Which mostly don't work and is not necessary because there is no threat situation.

This situation is created by the fact that news spreads very slowly in such countries and people are usually alerted only when the whole deal is over. Knowing this fact these farmers and medicine companies are cheating the already poor and downtrodden populations of many African and Asian countries.

This situation can change if the authorities of these countries would stop supporting such tricksters and make sure that people are kept informed about the situation.

Bull PENIS for DInner!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OK i love Chinese food but i cant even think about eating any kind of penis for dinner!!!
This one is about an Asian delicacy made out of Bull Penis. Heard about stuff made out of Bull testicles but this is where the urine comes from and this is what he uses to copulate.

OK it goes like this. The best Bull penis is bought by the cook from the local market , remember its priced by the length(3 feet+),color , freshness etc. Now this is brought back to the kitchen the first and most important part of the deal is cleaning the urinary tract this is done with water first and then with vinegar. Now the cleaned penis is to be cut , the best part of it is the head that gets the most blood flow this is like usually given to the most important guest. And so goes the tale. These are prepared by the most experienced chefs only.

I do not think eating an animals genitals can be fun or tasty or anything of the sort that would be positive so why do people do it? The reason is simple its a complex of wanting to do big things a bull is a big animal and a penis is something that is considered very important so eating its penis gives people a feeling of having done something big or gives them something to brag about. Its not the taste its not a common food even in Asia its in fact a delicacy that only the Emperor had in the past
Should we be so narrow minded ? The question remains.

Tigers Bieng Fed Live Cow For Entertainment

This is not entertainment

This picture shows tiger's feasting on a cow that was fed to them for entertainment of the onlookers in Harbin, China. Not to satisfy their hunger but for paid entertainment. This is not NATURE this is CRUELTY FOR ENTERTAINMENT. The fact that Feeding a cow would cost onlookers 200$ or more and for a chicken in the range of 5 $. I am in no way against china or its people. I love china have been intrigued by its culture and amazed by its architecture and love Chinese food but I personally cant stand this. When i saw this on TV I thought it was just a publicity stunt by the channel but search on Google returned a lot. This is not Fair Chinese authorities should stop this. A country with such deep culture should not stoop to these levels for money. This is simply not right. Leave you comment and check back for more news on this post.Remember these are not wild tigers feeding on a wild cow. These are tigers being fed wild cows for entertainment. React we have otherwise they will continue this brutality. Post your opinions here and if you find any information about the same please do post them so that we can be well informed on this. Let us not keep our mouths shut remembers these are animals and they cant talk for themselves we will have to talk for them.
I will be updating if i get more information please dont hesitate to post links or other information that you might find.
I Have found a video on you tube that states this to be true. This is disturbing and should be watched caution.

Follow Up on The Great Indian Bustard

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Close on the heels of reports about declining tiger numbers in Rajasthan, now comes the alarming news that the Great Indian Bustard population has declined to 500 due to poaching and shrinking habitats

The IUCN passed a resolution requesting the Indian government to initiate Project Bustard, along the lines of Project Tiger, a suggestion backed by other wildlife organisations. Project Tiger and Project Elephant have shown that by identifying an indicator species and focusing attention on it and its habitat, an array of threatened species and habitats can be protected.

But as of now nothing is being done. We need more momentum. The world needs to know that nothing is being done. The number is going down quick. The worst part is that the number of birds in zoos etc are also low. Due to this fact if we loose the wild population the chances of getting it back is close to Nil.

The Indian Government is not taking it seriously it can be show by the fact that many public interest litigation returned the explanation that :

"Number of steps are being taken to protect the species, which has been placed in schedule one of the Wildlife (Protection) Act of 1972"

which by itself is an archaic set of rules. We will be running another campaign soon to get the international and the national community to recognise this fact.

Habitat Conservation Plans (HCP):

No Habitat Conservation Plans exist for the Great Indian bustard.

No petitions on Bastard
Safe Harbor Agreements (SHA):

No Safe Harbor Agreements exist for the Great Indian bustard.


Candidate Conservation Agreements (CCA):

No Candidate Conservation Agreements exist for the Great Indian bustard.


Candidate Conservation Agreements with Assurances (CCAA):

No Candidate Conservation Agreements with Assurances exist for the Great Indian bustard.
Source:-
http://ecos.fws.gov/speciesProfile/SpeciesReport.do;jsessionid=F2FBA592281A80E9181216CF822B5706?spcode=B014

A Bird that is Going Extinct in India

The Great Indian Bustard

Is on a free fall to extinction. The bird is not receiving enough attention so that enough funds be allocated for saving it from extinction . The main reason for the seriously fast reducing population is the reduction in its habitat.It is already locally extinct from almost 90 per cent of its former range and has virtually disappeared from three sanctuaries created especially for its protection.The bustard prefers dry, short grasslands where the vegetation is below its eye level (less than one metre high). A terrestrial creature, it avoids dense grasslands that hamper its movement.Karera a 202 sq. km. sanctuary that was established in 1981 and included 22 villages from the Karera tehsil in the Shivpuri district of Madhya Pradesh has less than 10 birds left within it.Across India, the signs of a national bustard disaster are visible. And if forest departments are not persuaded to change their conservation strategies, it will soon be too late to save the species.

What can we do to save the Bustard?

Bring this problem to the worlds notice

If there are people capable of making a difference reading this let them try and make a difference

Post ideas here as comments so that it can be forwarded to the Indian Forest department as suggestions.(Don't know if they will listen due to the bureaucracy but we could try)

Remember the bustard is on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

There are a million species going extinct then why bother ? Remember we are not sure about that statistic about a million species going extinct, even if it is true shouldn't we at least try to save a few ? isn't it happening because of us ?