Action Alert:Swiss Magazine Recommends Eating Dog Meat !!!
Action Alert:Swiss Magazine Recommends Eating Dog Meat !!!Posted By:
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Action Alert:Swiss Magazine “City Weekend” Recommends Eating Chinese Dog Meat Before It Becomes Outlawed
BY CHRIS, ON OCTOBER 27TH, 2010
These are puppies who were rescued by a Chinese friend yesterday from a roadside in Beijing:
And
this is a racist magazine cover story by a Swiss magazine “City Weekend
– Beijing” telling its expat readers that now is “the perfect time” to
eat dog meat, and also strongly implies that only “Westerners” abhor the
idea of eating dog meat.
The Swiss-owned magazine “City
Weekend” (Oct 28 edition) says it’s the “perfect time” to eat dogs –
before such a thing is outlawed – and tells us that “Westerners” abhor
the of idea of eating dogs, implying that Chinese people don’t.
Next
time City Weekend decides to promote a rush to eat dog meat before it’s
outlawed, I strongly suggest they first visit a dog meat farm first and
then decide whether they want to promote it and associate their
“Western”-owned brand with this particular form of animal exploitation.
With
so few species of nonhuman animals protected from our brutality, you
would think rich media companies like Ringierand their magazine City
Weekend would give “man’s best friend” a break.
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SAMPLE LETTER :
To: sienna@ringierasia.com , nina.lyner@ringier.ch
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Dear Ringier and City Weekend,
Please see the short post on Vegan Social Club about your magazine City Weekend’s promotion of the dog meat industry. http://www.vegansocialclub.com/?p=51
Your
magazine’s continued promotion of animal exploitation in China and your
writers’ tongue-in-cheek partaking in forms of animal exploitation like
eating dog meat — as if it were a form of tourism — is
reprehensible.
But even if you care nothing about the
fear and terror of dogs facing their end in dog meat farms, surely your
company gives a crap about racism, which your writer promotes in the
very same article.
A Swiss magazine sends its staff to
eat dog meat, then writes about how tasty it was, encourages other
expats to try it before it’s outlawed (clearly indicating your writers’
and editors’ awareness that Chinese society frowns on the practice so
much, it has been trying to outlaw it), but makes the case that most
“Westerners” somehow abhor this more than most Chinese do.
- The
people paying for the dog meat in this story are Swiss-owned magazine
workers, not the masses of dog-loving Chinese citizenry. - The
people who surely laughed their way through the whole experience work
for a foreign magazine, generally managed by Brits or Americans, not
Chinese people. - The people who published the address and
telephone number of the dog meat restaurant in this story are YOUR
writers and editors, not Chinese people. - The people encouraging
readers to hurry up and do something soon-to-be-outlawed are YOUR
writers and editors, not Chinese people.
As a media owner
(with distribution rights, a large readership, permission to publish,
etc) CITY WEEKEND is a member of this community. And in this case:
- you are the dog-meat eaters in Beijing.
- And
while no dog meat-eater walks around with a billboard encouraging
others to eat dogs too, this is exactly what you are doing, with your
tens of thousands of magazine copies. - You are the people who have betrayed these animals, bred by fickle, hypocritical humanity as “sometimes friend, sometimes food.”
- The
dogs whose lives were wasted, spent meaninglessly in cages and then
ended brutally without any “euthanasia” or painless killing techniques,
were eaten BY YOUR STAFF on YOUR BUDGET.
So, how dare City Weekend talk about what China or Chinese people do?!
Look
at the puppies in my post. These were rescued by ordinary Chinese
people, not expat writer-tourists from the US or Europe. They weren’t
rescued by you. Your company didn’t do shit for them.
There
are many things not yet outlawed in China. Shall City Weekend to a
cover story on all the things that aren’t yet legally proscribed yet,
but which break the hearts of millions of people everyday?
What
your company did do is encourage yet more idiots in the expat community
to eat “weird food”, destroy more species of animals, encourage a
“food-as-fun” mentality that spells disaster and cruelty for billions of
life forms on our planet.
Sincerely,Your NAME & COUNTRY
ANOTHER SAMPLE LETTER FROM
Jenny
October 27, 2010
A letter from a Chinese reader to “City Weekend”
Dear Sir / Madam,
I
was so shocked to hear that your Magazine “City Weekend” published an
article that promote dog meat eating in China. I originally adored your
magazine, though I am not one of the expats who are your targeted
readers. However, my heart was broken by what your editors and writers
did.
Just like many other animal lovers in China, I believed that
the western expats are more educated and decent especially in terms of
treating companion animals. Therefore we are desperately hoping the nice
people from western countries to set up as good role models for our
fellow people.
Unfortunately your magazine implied that our expectation is but an illusion.
I
feel very disheartened about what your writers did. The dog meat
industry is horribly cruel, and the sellers and slaughters are heartless
gangs and criminals. These bad guys even killed village people who
wanted to stop them when they were found stealing companion animals in
villages.
Their monster-like slaughter has sicken me to core and challenged my belief of humanity.
As
far as I know, Swiss is a country far more developed in animal welfare
legislation. But why your people apply such an opposite standard in
China? It is a huge disaster to animals and people alike that there is
no moral and laws to prevent cruelty and sadistic behavious. Therefore
we are struggling for legeslation of anti-cruelty of which to end the
dog meat industry is a big concern.
Please, I would like to ask
you and even beg you not to promote any forms of animal exploitation in
China anymore, but help promote “animals right” in my country.
Sincerely,
A Chinese animal lover