What the heck am I supposed to do about it?

[tracilicious]

Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

It's all about getting attention in the media - the more outrageous you are the better chance you'll end up being covered in ther media somewhere where you get a boarder audience for your cause.

"If we only knew the plight of dogs and cats in China..." Of course, you want to do something real for the dog and cat population, adopt a stray, or spay or neuter your own - but who's gonna print that on the nightly news?

That's a good point.

[Alex]

Never mind. I probably look like I'm arguing for arguments sake and I don't feel like looking that way today.

[tracilicious]

Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

Never mind. I probably look like I'm arguing for arguments sake and I don't feel like looking that way today.

No, I think your original point was a good one, but not quite what I was refering to. I'm assuming that you were talking about actual trade embargos and such, which do work. What I was talking about was not ordering Chinese food, and going to Chinese New Year celebrations and the like, which seems pretty pointless to me as those things don't affect the actual country of China.

As for the eating dogs and cats, I guess I agree. I would want for them what I want for all animals though, which is to be treated in a humane manner regardless of their fate. I think that we tend to assume that cats and dogs are smarter and so they shouldn't be eaten. Pigs are smarter than cats or dogs though and we eat them all the time. I've heard that pigs are actually as smart as dolphins.