Chomp8645 posted:

Yeah lol this is why you don't try to rescue them buy buying.

This lesson has already been learned. Some animal rights group starting buying up chinese dogs that were meant for dog meat and rescuing them. All it did was make the dog meat folks in the area intentionally start bringing way more tortured dogs since the animal rights group was essentially a new bulk purchaser.

If you want to set them free don't buy them. Steal them instead, that's a loss to the operation.

other people posted:

but china is communism and i was told that's the opposite of capitalism. im so confused

Barudak posted:

From my home in Vancouver

mike12345 posted:

do they really live there?

mike12345 posted:

do they really live there?

ekuNNN posted:

China isn't communism I was in beijing and saw homeless people sleeping in the pedestrian tunnel connecting the louis vuitton megastore to some random luxury mall, and 20-year olds driving supercars while 70-year-olds sell food from home made carts all night on the sidewalk

Inzombiac posted:

Also remember that large parts of China are 100% fine with killing millions of sharks for their fins to make soup.

No, they don't use the whole shark, they slice the fin off and toss them in the water to die.

I believe NBA star Yao Ming started a campaign to stop this practice. Allegedly a lot of people didn't know the sharks were killed in this process. Last I read it didn't really cause the practice to lose any steam.

Away all Goats posted:

I have good news for you
https://www.upworthy.com/thanks-to-yao-ming-killing-sharks-for-their-fins-is-down-50-and-hes-just-getting-started

Burt Sexual posted:

This headline is poorly written for a journalist.
After a successful campaign to raise awareness about the dangerous of shark fin soup, Yao Ming is now working to fight poaching.

Anyways, what’s so special about just the fin? Doesn’t it all taste like shark?

quote:

The taste in the soup comes from the broth; the fins themselves are almost tasteless.[5] Rather than for taste, the fins are used for their "snappy, gelatinous" texture,[5] which has been described as "chewy, sinewy, stringy."

quote:

On 2 July 2012, the State Council of the People's Republic of China declared that shark fin soup can no longer be served at official banquets. This ban may take up to three years to take effect because of the social significance of the dish in Chinese culture.

Burt Sexual posted:

Anyways, what’s so special about just the fin? Doesn’t it all taste like shark?

ate all the Oreos posted:

It's this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shark_fin_soup

Irradiation posted:

I got served shark fin soup at my Chinese friend's wedding and it wasn't even very good.

ToxicSlurpee posted:

Wasn't traditional Chinese medicine literally bullshitted into existence a few decades ago? Seems like we have a worldwide case of alt med bullshit going on everywhere.

But yeah apparently people were grinding up rhino horns for dick pills which led to a lot of poaching.

quote:

Mao understood he needed to deal with criticisms like those of Lu Xun, Wang Qingren, and Wang Chong in order for Chinese medicine to be taken seriously, both domestically and internationally. His solution was a two-pronged approach. First, inconsistent texts and idiosyncratic practices had to be standardized. Textbooks were written that portrayed Chinese medicine as a theoretical and practical whole, and they were taught in newly founded academies of so-called “traditional Chinese medicine,” a term that first appeared in English, not Chinese. Needless to say, the academies were anything but traditional, striving valiantly to “scientify” the teachings of classics that often contradicted one another and themselves. Terms such as “holism” (zhengtiguan) and “preventative care” (yufangxing) were used to provide the new system with appealing foundational principles, principles that are now standard fare in arguments about the benefits of alternative medicine.

The second part of Mao’s project was to provide Westerners with sensational evidence of Chinese medicine’s efficacy, particularly of acupuncture analgesia. The watershed moment was in 1971, when New York Times editor James Reston wrote an article entitled “Now, Let Me Tell You About My Appendectomy in Peking.” In it, he recounted how Wu Weiran of the Anti-Imperialist Hospital had administered “a standard injection of Xylocain and Bensocain” before removing his appendix. Later, while Reston recovered, acupuncture was used to relieve pain from post-operative gas. Eager to believe in mystical Eastern miracle workers, credulous Westerners misreported the story, claiming that acupuncture had been used as an anesthetic during Reston’s appendectomy, a falsehood that still has currency. Fascination with acupuncture exploded, allowing the Chinese Communist Party to put together a media blitz touting its extraordinary powers, complete with what appear to have been intentionally faked surgeries.

Mao’s vision still reigns supreme, and the present state of misinformation about Chinese medicine is staggering, even in what appear to be trustworthy sources. Cancer.gov, for instance, states that “the oldest medical book known, written in China 4,000 years ago, describes the use of acupuncture to treat medical problems.” In fact, the oldest excavated Chinese medical text is no more than 2,300 years old and makes no mention of acupuncture at all—though it does include numerous exorcistic cures, a common element in ancient Chinese medicine that the popularizers of traditional Chinese medicine did well to forget. (Unfortunately, they did not forget about extracting bile from live bears, a practice easily justified by postulating the presence of qi, or life force, in living animals.)

is pepsi ok posted:

Do minors deserve the guillotine too? Let's find out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CxODDXpkcg

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKUs5_UjbfEmiPKgEaWH4Rw/videos?flow=grid&view=0&sort=p

happyhippy posted:

No different from the egg producers everywhere, mentioned earlier I think or in another thread.
Where male chicks are instantly mulched up after coming out of the egg.

quote:

Guizhentang Pharmaceutical, one of China's largest bear bile medicine producers, announced plans in early February to have an initial public offering of stock in the company to raise funds that would finance an expansion of its bear farm and production.

Zhou Chaofan, a professor of traditional Chinese medicine at China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, said artificial bile has only one kind of cholic acid, while natural bear bile has four other acids that improve the therapeutic effect.

The company said bear bile is now used in 123 traditional Chinese medicines, and 183 pharmaceutical companies use bear bile powder in medicines.

Moridin920 posted:

https://twitter.com/Rasmp42/status/1021077862034690048

Moridin920 posted:

Yeah pretty much, that's why I say thanks Mao. "Chinese medicine" wasn't really anything other than an amalgamation of old wives tales etc. It's like basically what if you codified all the insane homeopathy, anti-vaxxer, raw milk, Jenny McCarthy types' views and called that "Traditional American Medicine."

Then of course he kept on using Western medicine/doctors for himself because he knew full well "traditional Chinese medicine" is a load of horseshit.

Anyway an article if you are interested: http://www.slate.com/articles/healt..._t_believe.html


goddamnit China

Moridin920 posted:

nuke this gay earth imo



https://twitter.com/Rasmp42/status/1021077862034690048

Crowsbeak posted:

The only thing Mao did wrong.

ate all the Oreos posted:

Y'all want some chicken horror look up "vent pecking" some time. Apparently captive chickens will frequently get it in their heads that it's a good idea to peck at the other chickens' throbbing cloacas right after an egg is laid, to the point where they sometimes peck their guts out through their rear end and then cannibalize them. Weirdly free-range chickens do it more than caged ones, so enjoy that mental image the next time you buy free-range grass-fed eggs at whole foods, yuppies

other people posted:

but china is communism and i was told that's the opposite of capitalism. im so confused

Burt Sexual posted:

You’d think even placebo effect would wear out and people say eh not workin, gimme a viag

is pepsi ok posted:

Do minors deserve the guillotine too? Let's find out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CxODDXpkcg

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKUs5_UjbfEmiPKgEaWH4Rw/videos?flow=grid&view=0&sort=p

quote:

A YouTuber is facing up to two years in prison for filming himself giving Oreo cookies filled with toothpaste to a homeless man and then joking that they would clean him.

Kanghua Ren, who broadcasts under the name ReSet, has more than 1 million subscribers on the video sharing platform.

The Barcelona-based internet personality filmed himself filling the double-stacked chocolate cookies with toothpaste and placing them back in their original packaging.

Moridin920 posted:

https://twitter.com/Rasmp42/status/1021077862034690048

Tetracube posted:

Moridin920 posted:

https://twitter.com/Rasmp42/status/1021077862034690048