Orientals vs Foreign Devils: Who is the cruelest of them all?

January 10, 2009: My apologies to anyone who might have checked this site in the last 2 months and found only the same old dog-whacking to look at. Here's some cat-whacking.

After leaving that horrific shit in people's faces for so long, i'm going to play at being a real blogger for once and follow up. I think i speculated at the time about acceptance of animal cruelty on the part of the Chinese and as such this definitely needs pointing out:

Another recent animal cruelty case to come out was about photographs of cats crammed in crates being shipped by train from Nanjing to Guangdong to be skinned and boiled in Cantonese restaurants.

A Chinese blogger, Nalan Jingmen, originally made the 'discovery', taking a bunch of photos. Afterwards, a newspaper picked up the blog entry (as Chinese newspapers often do), and an English language China website in turn reported the Chinese newspaper story.

The reader responses at the bottom of the story on the Chinese blog overwhelmingly expressed sympathy for the animals. But until some hardcore American cat lovers and Indian vegans came along, comment on the English language website was running principally along the lines of "who gives a shit?"

I remember similarly heartless responses in a local newspaper a few years ago about live cats being used as crayfish bait.