http://www.crazynews.net/animal-cruelty-live-animals-for-sale-as-key-chains-in-china/
Here is more sickness! I am sorry for all of the sickening posts as of late. I am truly disgusted at the audasity of our fellow man. I do understand the need to make money in this day and age, but the extremes humankind takes are sickening.
This article has two parts: The obviously cruel ways people use, to create wealth for themselves, and some of the ways people break the law, to smuggle live animals into other countries.
Posted on October 20, 2013 | Comments Off
Despite the fact that the selling of animals as keyring ornaments is a clear-cut case of animal cruelty, it is actually entirely within the law. Chinese law prohibits the sale of wild animals — a designation which evidently does not apply to the Brazil turtles and kingfish being sold.
Live Animals Being Sold as Keyrings in China
http://www.treehugger.com/natural-sciences/live-animals-being-sold-as-keyrings-in-china.html
Keyring ornaments are perhaps the most useless item you’ll ever carry in your pocket or stuff in your purse — but now, thanks to an increasingly popular item being sold in China, it can easily be the cruelest, too. For the price you might expect to pay for some kitschy trinket, Chinese street vendors are selling live animals, permanently sealed in a small plastic pouch where they can survive for a short while as someone’s conversation piece. Apparently, these unimaginably inhumane keyrings are actually quite popular — and worst of all, it’s totally legal.
Potential buyers (read as animal-abusers) have the choice between a living Brazil turtle or two small kingfish, sealed in an airtight package along with some colored water. One vendor claimed that the trapped creatures “can live for months inside there” because the water contains “nutrients,” though veterinarians have already disputed this claim.
10 Outrageous Ways People Have Tried to Smuggle Animals
When Miami airport inspectors asked a man arriving from Havana, Cuba to raise his pants legs, they were surprised to find 44 birds strapped to his legs. The man had denied he was bringing any wildlife into the United States. He was released the next day on $50,000 bond after being charged with lying on a customs declaration form.
The illegal trade in wildlife is second only to that of drugs in the United States, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS). A former FWS chief of law enforcement said, “There is no stigma attached to being an animal smuggler. If you get caught illegally transporting animals on a first offense, it’s possible you won’t even do jail time. You can’t say the same for running drugs.”
Wow this is so DISGUSTANG
i cant believe that any sane human would come up with something like this!
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This kind of thing just breaks my heart.
I honestly do not understand how humans can look at another living creature and think that there is any reason to mistreat it. How can they not understand how cruel they are being, or imagine what it would be like to be mistreated so?
I agree with your motivation for posting, however disturbing the subject matter is. We really should be disturbed that things like this are happening.
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In the past, they served tiger and cheetah’s meat on restaurants in China. They also offer their skin for an added fee. That’s the reason they’re now extinc in China…
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I saw some pics on the web about that, and how they’re skinning sheep in Australia for the wool, and skinning rabbits, for the meat, by slitting throats, and skinning while still alive!
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Those animal cruelties made me sick…
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Me too. I don’t like posting gross disgusting stuff. I just thought others should see what’s happening. Every one is so busy trying to make a living, they aren’t aware of the atrocities going on.
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I totally agree. Many people just don’t make a damn on these important issues.
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