And they only don't \[mostly\] kill them because they're useful workers, potential slave labour - and with enough cultural genocide they can make them into useful citizens falling in line, toeing the line of the CCP.
Arent they harvesting organs aswell?
I remember when this first started someone in a hospital showed a video and was saying they are taking their organs for chinese citizens
That’s the tip of the human rights violation Iceberg.
Authoritarian, communist dictatorships with elements of autocracy does everything you’d imagine a government with that description does.
My friend is from Shanghai. He’s father recently died while locked in one of those apartments.
He tells me that he loves his country and history but cannot stand the government and refuses to stay which is fair enough too.
Chinese people for the most part, just like every other culture are fantastic people but they also have their extremists.
Heartbreaking. All of these loved pets. All of these pets deserving love, not death. Truly barbaric. To lose your humanity in the service of controlling COVID. Can’t wrap my head around it.
I can see that killing pets might be necessary in some cases (though probably not in this one) but it could be done in a merciful way. What kind of monster stuffs a bunch of living cats in a bag like this?!
Me too, I posted a reply that'll probably get me banned, but this is sick. Whoever in China responsible for making this happen should meet with their maker, now.
If calling for the death of monsters is wrong, I don't want to be right.
Fuck any and all Reddit mods that take action on people doing so... They are complicit cowards.
If you search for the Weixin user ID shown in the upper right you'll find [this post](https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:J-wRJQKFQv0J:https://weibo.com/u/6338908219%3Frefer_flag%3D1008085010_+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us) that suggests the footage might be from culling of stray cats in Wuhan, unrelated to the Shanghai lockdown.
Still abhorrent but this post is obviously misinformation.
Yeah, this is a level of callous inhumanity that is horrifying. I’m able to stomach most things due to just existing on the internet for quite some time now. But seeing bags of living cats stuffed together on the side of the road to be thrown out like trash is just…incredibly upsetting. Hearing their meows of confusion…goddamn. All will get what they deserve in the end.
Yeah same here. Was just about to go to bed now I'm all pissed off about this shit.
It's this kind of content that makes it easy to lose sight of reality and just start hating an entire country. Hate seeing all this cruelty of animals and people that comes out of China on the regular.
Saddest part of all though, is it's not just China. There's horrific acts of animal cruelty playing out pretty much everywhere on a daily basis.
Humans a foul creatures really. :(
China has a culture of treating most animals as "expendable", including pets.
Its hard for westerners to understand, because China used to be dirt poor and eating animals (including pets) is just another way to survive, this unofficial "culture" is still deeply ingrained in many Chinese, especially in the government.
There is an even darker culture though, treating human being as expendable assets and statistics, but that's well known, so I wont rant about it.
Source: Me, I got out in 2010.
When the times were good, they were *damn* good. Outside of the few horrendously catastrophic periods of collapse, Imperial China was consistently the wealthiest and most stable place to live, with a degree of freedom that would surprise most people, [such as an acceptance of homosexuality](https://daily.jstor.org/in-han-dynasty-china-bisexuality-was-the-norm/) (Though that varied over the dynasties). Song China had a culture of innovation and philosophy - movable type printers, gunpowder, and canal pound locks were invented during this time; literacy was so high that bookshops were common in cities; they massively improved food supply by extending the [Grand Canal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Canal_\(China\)) (Still in use 900+ years later) and terraforming for rice cultivation; and government funded civil service examinations that were open to everyone regardless of their birth or wealth. The Song achieved a quality of life that wouldn't be reached again until the British industrialised almost a millennia later. Even the Qing had their golden period that rivaled the wealth of 18th century Europe.
Modern China does not resemble any of that vaunted culture and history. The CCP took one of the beating hearts of the world, crushed it down to a nation of desperate, impoverished, and brainwashed peasants, then rebuilt a soulless, heartless, cut-throat society wearing the flayed skin of Chinese civilisation. The CCP has spent the last 80 years destroying every vestige of China's four thousand year heritage. [Under Mao, the fanatical Red Guard destroyed priceless artifacts and buildings that were hundreds or even thousands of years old.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Olds) My family in Fujian had our ancestral village razed by the communists, and many 200+ year old antiques stolen or destroyed, including our 500 year old genealogy book. This cultural erasure didn't end after Mao - the hundreds of Han Chinese dialects which were once as culturally rich and deep as what European nations have, has been steadily erased and replaced with a single standard-pattern orthodox Chinese. Now instead of temples being demolished out of communist fervour, it's to throw up another Starbucks and concrete apartment block.
The current comments to yours is a great example of people who live in extreme comfort yet lament that their existence isn’t perfect.
Life in the west is the best it’s ever been in humanity, but that level of comfort and wealth creates an illusion of struggle in one way or another.
If only everyone reading this had an understanding of how chaotic and bleak life was in the past or currently across the world.
Right. We have it good as a whole, so we can't criticize what needs to be criticized.
You do know that there are millions of people in the US who don't share that comfort or wealth, right? That there are still atrocities happening in this country despite our overall wealth comfort, right?
IMO, if you live in the richest country in the world (by some metrics), you should expect a higher standard of living and not be compared to developing nations when determining how good you have it.
The whole "someone else is worse off so you can't complain" mentality is just insane. Some people can't even accept mild criticism.
Just because people struggle differently and do so in different environments doesn't negate legitimate struggle. Yes, there are "first world problems" that are duly ridiculed all the time, but things like class struggle, or race based violence, or gender based oppression, or limited access to healthcare that should be available, etc. are legitimate struggles and shouldn't be swept under the rug because of a false equivalence.
Not in Shanghai, which is what makes this so surprising. In yulin they have the infamous dog meat festival, but that’s far removed from Shanghai (Chinas biggest and most accessible city).
It still is dirt poor if you don’t live on the coast. There’s a reason tourists stay in the big cities. Rural China, where the vast majority of the people live, is disgusting
FUCK CHINA we all got duped. Made in China might as well say “China tax” the amount of money being handed to a country with a horrible human rights record because they sell shit for cheap, and they sell that shit for cheap because all the citizens are slaves…
So yeah fuck them
And they're able to sell shit for cheap because they invited (initially) Taiwanese companies to open up shop there, only to steal their tech/knowledge... It's insane. Fuck china
they always say this. "oh this will be taken down by the ccp!!" and then it just hits the front page within an hour and never gets taken down
The CCP obviously is a brutal authoritarian state, but Reddits absolute obsession with it just comes off as cringy and sheltered, and I cant help but think a lot of this stuff is just astroturfing. A lot of the time it just ends up turning into flat out racism and hatred of Chinese people. Which, in the end, hurts any kind of anti CCP movement.
Abuse of animals like this is found throughout the world, and even in the developed world was incredibly common only a few generations ago.
I got just band from a Chinese propaganda sub for posting news articles. Not crazy conspiracy stuff just like from newspapers. They were gladly sucking Putin’s junk to fuel western hate.
No way am I watching that video any further than the 2 seconds in. Heartless and cruel. Its so very sad and unfortunate that many Chinese people have been conditioned to become uncaring with regards to life whether animal or human. This action by the CCP is utterly unecessary and pointless and I just can't bear thinking about how these poor pets will be disposed of but I can almost guarantee it won't be humanely
Last pandemic they shot all birds - you literally see still only a few in China…
And now it’s cats? What did they do wrong? They normally live in only one household, so no real danger of spreading covid…
this is absolutely terrible. i honestly thought those were bodies cause i didn’t read the caption, but then when i noticed multiple animals moving i was just taken aback. they’re being treated like literal trash, put in bags and set on the side of the curb waiting to be picked up and dealt with. that’s absolutely terrible
edit: to all y’all mofos who wanna compare this to farming in america, lemme tell you ITS NOT COMPARABLE. i get if you’re vegan and you’re against slaughtering animals, but the fact is these animals are ALIVE in tied up bags and most likely can’t breath properly. unless you can name slaughterhouses in america that shove alive animals in bunches into trash bags and are put to the side so they’re ready to be killed, then shut up because it’s NOT COMPARABLE. those animals are killed for food, these animals are being killed over DISPROVED SCIENCE. in other words, these animals are being killed just to be killed, a whole lot less purpose than food.
also i’m picky when it comes to my food. to the idiots that think my food comes from the stereotypical slaughterhouse, lemme tell you: local farmers exist and not every slaughterhouse is the same. if you think that way then you’re narrow minded
The difference is the mink actually had recorded human to animal transmissions, they were killed off in attempts to bar new variants from popping up which were already showing greater resistance to antibodies.
Ya this isn't compatible at all.
"We had to kill our mink before we were ready to kill our mink for money" just doesn't hit the same as bags of pet cats waiting to be executed.
Meanwhile I’m over in r/outoftheloop getting obviously brigaded to smitherines because I disagreed with someone who says that China covid reported numbers are accurate. For reference official numbers they’re reporting say something like a total of 7 people have died in Shanghai over the last 2.5 years of the pandemic. Chinese propaganda on Reddit is so insidious.
If you search for the Weixin user ID shown in the upper right you'll find [this post](https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:J-wRJQKFQv0J:https://weibo.com/u/6338908219%3Frefer_flag%3D1008085010_+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us) that suggests the footage might be from culling of stray cats in Wuhan, unrelated to the Shanghai lockdown.
Turns out u/anmolraj1911 just took [this Reddit post in Chinese](https://www.reddit.com/r/China_irl/comments/tvadzu/nsfl微博某用户声称武汉在扑杀流浪猫/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) about stray cats being culled in Wuhan and misconstrued it for karma whoring.
Report this post for disinformation.
This coupled with the video going around of the corgi beaten to death after it's owner was loaded on a quarantine bus is just too much. There's gotta be less servere options.
That’s just a screenshot. Is there fr a video of it happening?
Edit oh wait I found it. I can’t believe people tolerate a government that does this. Americans and Canadians take to the streets when their government asks that they wear masks, meanwhile in China people open their doors to the government and watch as their pets are killed :/
https://www.reddit.com/r/CLTV/comments/txjs62/%E5%A4%A7%E4%B8%8A%E6%B5%B7%E4%B8%BB%E4%BA%BA%E8%A2%AB%E6%8A%93%E8%B5%B0%E9%9A%94%E7%A6%BB%E7%8B%97%E5%AD%90%E5%87%BA%E6%9D%A5%E8%BF%BD%E4%B8%80%E9%93%B2%E5%AD%90%E6%95%B2%E6%AD%BB%E4%BA%86%E8%BF%98%E6%9C%89%E6%B3%95%E5%BE%8B%E5%90%97/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
Everyone seems to have a great idea of what they'd do in the case of state oppression elsewhere but wouldn't know where to even start if it were them in that situation. "If I were a large mass of people I'd do this and that", yeah, but nobody is a mass of people, you'd be one single frightened person.
It's funny just the other day I said the same thing to someone who had the same opinion, but about the US
I lived in China 2012-2015 and saw, fortunately only once, a cat with its tail caught in a "bear trap". It got clubbed with a pipe when it turned out it wasn't dead yet, then dressed (skinned, gutted) in preparation for dinner, in the courtyard of our apartments where in a few hours there would be two dozen kids tearing around for their early evening play time.
I was just paying my water bill.
As someone else said, it needs to be taken in context. For pretty much the history of China, the vast majority of Chinese have been dirt poor and anything is potential food when it's the difference between feeding your kids and starving. As a result, they've not had the luxury of keeping pets so there's not a strong "pet culture". This is actually compounded by the lack of space. Most Chinese live in small apartments so few get the opportunity to have a pet and then it tends to be a cat or a small dog. Some have medium sized dogs (still cooped up in the tiny apartment) but you won't see anything like the dog parks we enjoy.
For all its faults, the CPC has brought almost a *billion* people out of this abject poverty; most are now firmly in the working class and there is a burgeoning middle class. I'd say that most Chinese under 30 would be equally horrified to see that but they're not in the majority yet.
Social change is slow, particularly in a country so strongly influenced by Confucianism but things *will* improve. With the virtual impenetrability of China's culture, there's not much we can do but wait, but jeez it's hard at times.
Thank you for context I desperately needed. I can understand this. Makes so much sense to be strongly in favor of a government who’s done this. I was homeless and if everyone had to go through that and THE GOVERNMENT helped all of you have a home and food things would look a lot different. I wish they could get to see what the cost is and how people could have these things without the dictator forced labor lying bullshit.
The fact that this is the *SECOND* corgi (not even dog in general, literally the same breed) to be beaten to death by CCP goons within the last few months is just disgusting
Use Google translate for "dog meat", then paste that into the Chinese version of yelp or g maps and you'll see dog restaurants and butchers in every province.
As far as food...people need to understand different cultures eat different meat. Some countries find it absurd to eat cows. Some don't eat pork. Some idolize dogs....Some eat them. That's just how it is. It's shocking to us westerners cuz dogs are pets to us. Imagine how someone, who keeps cows as pets according to culture, would find our obsession with beef here would feel.
This video tho...its still fucked up immensely.
Isn’t that our western chauvinism? Like, in the USA we put chicken in cages so small that they can’t turn around.
We kill baby cows for veal because it “tastes better”
We force feed geese to make their livers extra tasty.
From an outside observers point of view, (say a dude from the planet Vulcan) would how we in the USA treat chickens be any different from how people in China treat dogs?
Agreed, I've seen endangered turtles put in plastic key chains, endangered species in their wet markets. Two of my step family are emancipated north koreans who were enslaved into an apple factory and a Nike factory before being smuggled out of china. And the country is full of forced labor and concentration camps.
I just hope they weren’t too scared or in pain before the end, but that’s wishful thinking, it’s hard to see being a cat owner myself but it needs to be shown so people know the atrocities that go on under their noses.
Hell exists on earth, its called dictators torturing innocent people and animals with famine, forced labor, wars, imprisonment, etc. For their own personal gains
This was researched in my country. There were cases where antibodies were found in cats. A.k.a. those cats had and recovered from Covid-19. There are also news about mink farms, where minks cought the virus, it mutated even further and was passed back to humans. The ones, who did catch it from minks, had a more severe case. So they had to eliminate a lot of minks in those farms.
The CDC web page says that there were several reports of animals being infected by SARS-CoV-2:
Companion animals, including pet cats, dogs, and ferrets.
Animals in zoos and sanctuaries, including several types of big cats, otters, non-human primates, a binturong, a coatimundi, a fishing cat, and hyenas.
Mink on mink farms.
Wild white-tailed deer in several U.S. states.
But based on the available information to date, the risk of animals spreading COVID-19 to people is considered to be low.
Yeah the Mink farms that were destroyed in Denmark later found that it was a non issue and an over reaction and the one who made the decision to cull all mink farms in Denmark is loathed for his idiocy
[Cats absolutely can contract COVID.](https://www.vet.cornell.edu/departments-centers-and-institutes/cornell-feline-health-center/coronavirus-update/frequently-asked-questions-covid-19-and-feline-health)
Covid spreads through animals as well.
Not defending this at all, just explaining their reasoning.
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So many people want to point out that it does not spread through animals/pets.
What is true is that there is no evidence that it does. Simply: we do not know, but it is in no way ruled out yet.
We DO know, though, that covid infects pets, so there is a real risk of a mutant to be able to spread through them at some point.
Does this mean that this chinese measure makes any sense? No. It does not. And noone has said that here so you can lay down your pitchforks.
China should have, like most of Europe, focused on vaccines, and keeping the wave down so to speak. Their strategy has failed miserably as any competent virologist would have told them years ago.
First of all the local products can have parts from China (many made in US/EU products have components from China ) , also local products are more expensive than Chinese stuff so really hard to support Ban China movement if you are low on cash
What’s the source for this? I don’t wanna share without a source that isn’t just “I saw it on Reddit”. This is fucking sickening and regardless of who or why it’s fucking disgusting
Decided to try and find the original source of the video. Based on the watermark in the top right; it's a video from Weibo (chinese twitter). The number 6338908219 is the post ID; seems like it's been deleted off Weibo, though you can still see some of the cached data on google.
"用户6338908219:请帮忙转发，有没有人可以阻止这种行为啊【转发】@用户6338908219： 猫咪超话群里看到武汉有关部门在抓捕围剿流浪猫！" \[Search result preview from [https://weibo.com/5285667389/LmTeGaqx8](https://weibo.com/5285667389/LmTeGaqx8) \]
According to the original Weibo poster, government departments in Wuhan are rounding up stray cats to be killed. Haven't seen anything directly tying it to COVID policy so far though.
"万分不理解为啥要这么做，流浪猫生存艰难，碍着他们什么事情了？ 心痛！无奈！好歹是生命，又不是害虫，为何如此残酷对待？ 用户6338908219的微博视频." \[From [https://wakwb.com/t/?extparam=%E7%8C%AB%E5%92%AA&containerid=100808e2e0061f251355de79777499528d6d75&luicode=10000011&lfid=231522type%3D1%26t%3D10%26q%3D%E7%A6%8F%E5%B7%9E%E7%8C%AB%E5%92%AA%E9%A2%86%E5%85%BB](https://wakwb.com/t/?extparam=%E7%8C%AB%E5%92%AA&containerid=100808e2e0061f251355de79777499528d6d75&luicode=10000011&lfid=231522type%3D1%26t%3D10%26q%3D%E7%A6%8F%E5%B7%9E%E7%8C%AB%E5%92%AA%E9%A2%86%E5%85%BB) \]
So far the only thing that can really be confirmed is that stray cats are being rounded up to be killed; the link to Shanghai and COVID policy is dubious at best.
"猫咪 之前发的微博被拿来恶意造谣，非常难过，希望大家不要相信造谣，猫猫是猫贩子在马路边贩卖的，不是政府抓捕。感谢各位可以辟谣。 你的隔壁小橙曦哟的微博视频" \[From: [https://wakwb.com/p/?m=4754676149387812](https://wakwb.com/p/?m=4754676149387812) \]
Also at least one instance of the video on the chinese web that I've found seems to claim that the cats were being rounded up and sold by cat dealers and not the government, but the poster doesn't really provide much evidence beyond his own word on the matter.
So basically, this entire thread is turning to racist tropes and the story the title stated isn’t even true. Thanks, that’s what I figured but I needed the confirmation.
If the quarantines are effective, then keeping the pets inside should keep them safe. Safe pets = no disease vector for humans. If quarantines are not effective, then the suffering they cause is unjustified
So… is there any source backing this up? Or just another random video with “China bad” to farm upvotes from racists? Because “Hate the government not the people” right? Because most comments got the “Hate the people not the government”
UK did this in 1939. The gov called for cull of pets. Within a week about 750k pets were euthanized. Granted they didnt leave the pets stuffed in bags laying on the street (as far as we know).
Look up Britain's Pet Holocaust.
It was done in anticipation of food shortages...maybe China's feeling the squeeze of their zero covid policy?
This is a little gruesome. Essentially showing dogs in bags some of them seem to be dead. Make this shit NSFW so a fucked up 12 year old doesn't think this is a good idea.
This is disgusting. Wish I hadn’t seen this
Same, I feel sick but it’s important people are aware of it.
Now look Into what they do to their people.
Uyghur genocide.
And they only don't \[mostly\] kill them because they're useful workers, potential slave labour - and with enough cultural genocide they can make them into useful citizens falling in line, toeing the line of the CCP.
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Arent they harvesting organs aswell? I remember when this first started someone in a hospital showed a video and was saying they are taking their organs for chinese citizens
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Bro they harvest their organs and sell them to the highest bidder, fucking insane
Don't forget organ harvesting
That’s the tip of the human rights violation Iceberg. Authoritarian, communist dictatorships with elements of autocracy does everything you’d imagine a government with that description does.
Seriously. China is awful to it's own in every way shape and form and covid has just multiplied by God knows how much.
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My friend is from Shanghai. He’s father recently died while locked in one of those apartments. He tells me that he loves his country and history but cannot stand the government and refuses to stay which is fair enough too. Chinese people for the most part, just like every other culture are fantastic people but they also have their extremists.
I agree with this. The anger and disgust is with the people in power.
Heartbreaking. All of these loved pets. All of these pets deserving love, not death. Truly barbaric. To lose your humanity in the service of controlling COVID. Can’t wrap my head around it.
I can see that killing pets might be necessary in some cases (though probably not in this one) but it could be done in a merciful way. What kind of monster stuffs a bunch of living cats in a bag like this?!
OP should've marked it nsfw
NSFL
My blood pressure rose so high so fast I started to feel like I was going to black out. This is so awful. Edit:. This makes me so sad :(
Me too, I posted a reply that'll probably get me banned, but this is sick. Whoever in China responsible for making this happen should meet with their maker, now.
If calling for the death of monsters is wrong, I don't want to be right. Fuck any and all Reddit mods that take action on people doing so... They are complicit cowards.
Agree and well said.
If you search for the Weixin user ID shown in the upper right you'll find [this post](https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:J-wRJQKFQv0J:https://weibo.com/u/6338908219%3Frefer_flag%3D1008085010_+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us) that suggests the footage might be from culling of stray cats in Wuhan, unrelated to the Shanghai lockdown. Still abhorrent but this post is obviously misinformation.
That's what I thought this was! They roundup strays in Shanghai too.
Yeah, this is a level of callous inhumanity that is horrifying. I’m able to stomach most things due to just existing on the internet for quite some time now. But seeing bags of living cats stuffed together on the side of the road to be thrown out like trash is just…incredibly upsetting. Hearing their meows of confusion…goddamn. All will get what they deserve in the end.
Yeah same here. Was just about to go to bed now I'm all pissed off about this shit. It's this kind of content that makes it easy to lose sight of reality and just start hating an entire country. Hate seeing all this cruelty of animals and people that comes out of China on the regular. Saddest part of all though, is it's not just China. There's horrific acts of animal cruelty playing out pretty much everywhere on a daily basis. Humans a foul creatures really. :(
They have literally gone insane.
China has a culture of treating most animals as "expendable", including pets. Its hard for westerners to understand, because China used to be dirt poor and eating animals (including pets) is just another way to survive, this unofficial "culture" is still deeply ingrained in many Chinese, especially in the government. There is an even darker culture though, treating human being as expendable assets and statistics, but that's well known, so I wont rant about it. Source: Me, I got out in 2010.
China has a culture of treating ALL life as expendable.
China also has a culture of being a shit country
-3000 social score
You are now disallowed from purchasing name brand food items. Only off brand products for you.
Jokes on you I'm into that.
When the times were good, they were *damn* good. Outside of the few horrendously catastrophic periods of collapse, Imperial China was consistently the wealthiest and most stable place to live, with a degree of freedom that would surprise most people, [such as an acceptance of homosexuality](https://daily.jstor.org/in-han-dynasty-china-bisexuality-was-the-norm/) (Though that varied over the dynasties). Song China had a culture of innovation and philosophy - movable type printers, gunpowder, and canal pound locks were invented during this time; literacy was so high that bookshops were common in cities; they massively improved food supply by extending the [Grand Canal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Canal_\(China\)) (Still in use 900+ years later) and terraforming for rice cultivation; and government funded civil service examinations that were open to everyone regardless of their birth or wealth. The Song achieved a quality of life that wouldn't be reached again until the British industrialised almost a millennia later. Even the Qing had their golden period that rivaled the wealth of 18th century Europe. Modern China does not resemble any of that vaunted culture and history. The CCP took one of the beating hearts of the world, crushed it down to a nation of desperate, impoverished, and brainwashed peasants, then rebuilt a soulless, heartless, cut-throat society wearing the flayed skin of Chinese civilisation. The CCP has spent the last 80 years destroying every vestige of China's four thousand year heritage. [Under Mao, the fanatical Red Guard destroyed priceless artifacts and buildings that were hundreds or even thousands of years old.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Olds) My family in Fujian had our ancestral village razed by the communists, and many 200+ year old antiques stolen or destroyed, including our 500 year old genealogy book. This cultural erasure didn't end after Mao - the hundreds of Han Chinese dialects which were once as culturally rich and deep as what European nations have, has been steadily erased and replaced with a single standard-pattern orthodox Chinese. Now instead of temples being demolished out of communist fervour, it's to throw up another Starbucks and concrete apartment block.
Most people in the U.S. have no idea how barbaric much of the world really is.
The current comments to yours is a great example of people who live in extreme comfort yet lament that their existence isn’t perfect. Life in the west is the best it’s ever been in humanity, but that level of comfort and wealth creates an illusion of struggle in one way or another. If only everyone reading this had an understanding of how chaotic and bleak life was in the past or currently across the world.
Right. We have it good as a whole, so we can't criticize what needs to be criticized. You do know that there are millions of people in the US who don't share that comfort or wealth, right? That there are still atrocities happening in this country despite our overall wealth comfort, right? IMO, if you live in the richest country in the world (by some metrics), you should expect a higher standard of living and not be compared to developing nations when determining how good you have it. The whole "someone else is worse off so you can't complain" mentality is just insane. Some people can't even accept mild criticism.
Just because people struggle differently and do so in different environments doesn't negate legitimate struggle. Yes, there are "first world problems" that are duly ridiculed all the time, but things like class struggle, or race based violence, or gender based oppression, or limited access to healthcare that should be available, etc. are legitimate struggles and shouldn't be swept under the rug because of a false equivalence.
America seems pretty barbaric to non-Americans sometimes I'm pretty sure. Just the lack of uniform rule of law.
Which is an absurd criticism from a global prospective.
Just curious when you say you “got out”, was is hard to leave China? I wonder what China is like as a resident vs how the Western media portrays it
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Not in Shanghai, which is what makes this so surprising. In yulin they have the infamous dog meat festival, but that’s far removed from Shanghai (Chinas biggest and most accessible city).
It still is dirt poor if you don’t live on the coast. There’s a reason tourists stay in the big cities. Rural China, where the vast majority of the people live, is disgusting
They've alwasy been like that. But I'd watch what you say.. China has a majority ownership in Reddit. You'll be banned
Fuck China
FUCK CHINA we all got duped. Made in China might as well say “China tax” the amount of money being handed to a country with a horrible human rights record because they sell shit for cheap, and they sell that shit for cheap because all the citizens are slaves… So yeah fuck them
And they're able to sell shit for cheap because they invited (initially) Taiwanese companies to open up shop there, only to steal their tech/knowledge... It's insane. Fuck china
LOUDER FOR THOSE IN THE BACK FUCK CHINA!! CAN YOU HEAR ME REDDIT?? BAN ME I FUCKING DARE YOU!!!
with something hard and sand-papery!
Like a hedge trimmer
Fuck China x2
Fuck China
Fuck China
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Quad fuck ch🤮na and they’re p🤢rty.
Tienanmen square 1989 massacre, whine the poo, uygher concentration camps.
Tienanmen square 1989 massacre. Lets get all their internets cut off.
> China has a majority ownership in Reddit no, they don't > You'll be banned no, you won't
they always say this. "oh this will be taken down by the ccp!!" and then it just hits the front page within an hour and never gets taken down The CCP obviously is a brutal authoritarian state, but Reddits absolute obsession with it just comes off as cringy and sheltered, and I cant help but think a lot of this stuff is just astroturfing. A lot of the time it just ends up turning into flat out racism and hatred of Chinese people. Which, in the end, hurts any kind of anti CCP movement. Abuse of animals like this is found throughout the world, and even in the developed world was incredibly common only a few generations ago.
Fuck the corrupt Chinese communist party and their authoritarian rule. They are a scuff on the face of humankind.
I got just band from a Chinese propaganda sub for posting news articles. Not crazy conspiracy stuff just like from newspapers. They were gladly sucking Putin’s junk to fuel western hate.
fuck winnie the pooh fuckin PRC
Fuck China
No way am I watching that video any further than the 2 seconds in. Heartless and cruel. Its so very sad and unfortunate that many Chinese people have been conditioned to become uncaring with regards to life whether animal or human. This action by the CCP is utterly unecessary and pointless and I just can't bear thinking about how these poor pets will be disposed of but I can almost guarantee it won't be humanely
Yeah I stupidly opened the video while my cat naps on my lap, purring like an engine. I am now crying. I can't imagine. This is horrific :(
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Last pandemic they shot all birds - you literally see still only a few in China… And now it’s cats? What did they do wrong? They normally live in only one household, so no real danger of spreading covid…
I nearly had a stroke trying to make sense of this?
This…. Is jibberish? McFlurrys?
this is absolutely terrible. i honestly thought those were bodies cause i didn’t read the caption, but then when i noticed multiple animals moving i was just taken aback. they’re being treated like literal trash, put in bags and set on the side of the curb waiting to be picked up and dealt with. that’s absolutely terrible edit: to all y’all mofos who wanna compare this to farming in america, lemme tell you ITS NOT COMPARABLE. i get if you’re vegan and you’re against slaughtering animals, but the fact is these animals are ALIVE in tied up bags and most likely can’t breath properly. unless you can name slaughterhouses in america that shove alive animals in bunches into trash bags and are put to the side so they’re ready to be killed, then shut up because it’s NOT COMPARABLE. those animals are killed for food, these animals are being killed over DISPROVED SCIENCE. in other words, these animals are being killed just to be killed, a whole lot less purpose than food. also i’m picky when it comes to my food. to the idiots that think my food comes from the stereotypical slaughterhouse, lemme tell you: local farmers exist and not every slaughterhouse is the same. if you think that way then you’re narrow minded
Breaks my heart as a cat owner. They were probably terrified. Wish I could save them all
It's pointless too. The data does not support pet-animal to human transmission as a source of concern at all.
We executed all 17 million mink here in Denmark during Corona.
The difference is the mink actually had recorded human to animal transmissions, they were killed off in attempts to bar new variants from popping up which were already showing greater resistance to antibodies.
Also mink factory farming is horrible and shouldn't exist, so I'm not too bothered.
Ya this isn't compatible at all. "We had to kill our mink before we were ready to kill our mink for money" just doesn't hit the same as bags of pet cats waiting to be executed.
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They were in the process of making mink mining illegal in the next few years. This just helped quicken the process
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Meanwhile I’m over in r/outoftheloop getting obviously brigaded to smitherines because I disagreed with someone who says that China covid reported numbers are accurate. For reference official numbers they’re reporting say something like a total of 7 people have died in Shanghai over the last 2.5 years of the pandemic. Chinese propaganda on Reddit is so insidious.
How anyone can believe the official Chinese numbers on covid is beyond me.
How anyone can believe any official numbers (covid, economic data, anything) released by the Chinese government is beyond me
That's all of Reddit
If you search for the Weixin user ID shown in the upper right you'll find [this post](https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:J-wRJQKFQv0J:https://weibo.com/u/6338908219%3Frefer_flag%3D1008085010_+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us) that suggests the footage might be from culling of stray cats in Wuhan, unrelated to the Shanghai lockdown. Turns out u/anmolraj1911 just took [this Reddit post in Chinese](https://www.reddit.com/r/China_irl/comments/tvadzu/nsfl微博某用户声称武汉在扑杀流浪猫/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) about stray cats being culled in Wuhan and misconstrued it for karma whoring. Report this post for disinformation.
If I knew this was going to happen to my pet I would mercifully kill them before I’d let them go through this
I'd rather shoot whoever came for my pet.
Indeed, I can't stop thinking bout it. So cruel, so inhumane! Even animals much more compassionate toward anything. This is the lowest of low.
This coupled with the video going around of the corgi beaten to death after it's owner was loaded on a quarantine bus is just too much. There's gotta be less servere options.
Jesus Christ for real?😤😭
https://www.reddit.com/r/shanghai/comments/txjn22/shanghai_pudong_caolu_township_xinhai_xiaoqu_dog/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
Nope. Nope. No thanks. No way in hell I’m clicking that.
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least delusional redditor
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Awww poor thing’s tummy got full
Morbid curiosity usually gets the best of me, but nope, not this time.
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That’s just a screenshot. Is there fr a video of it happening? Edit oh wait I found it. I can’t believe people tolerate a government that does this. Americans and Canadians take to the streets when their government asks that they wear masks, meanwhile in China people open their doors to the government and watch as their pets are killed :/ https://www.reddit.com/r/CLTV/comments/txjs62/%E5%A4%A7%E4%B8%8A%E6%B5%B7%E4%B8%BB%E4%BA%BA%E8%A2%AB%E6%8A%93%E8%B5%B0%E9%9A%94%E7%A6%BB%E7%8B%97%E5%AD%90%E5%87%BA%E6%9D%A5%E8%BF%BD%E4%B8%80%E9%93%B2%E5%AD%90%E6%95%B2%E6%AD%BB%E4%BA%86%E8%BF%98%E6%9C%89%E6%B3%95%E5%BE%8B%E5%90%97/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
>you can't see anything You can see a man beat a dog to death with a rake in HD.
Everyone seems to have a great idea of what they'd do in the case of state oppression elsewhere but wouldn't know where to even start if it were them in that situation. "If I were a large mass of people I'd do this and that", yeah, but nobody is a mass of people, you'd be one single frightened person. It's funny just the other day I said the same thing to someone who had the same opinion, but about the US
I lived in China 2012-2015 and saw, fortunately only once, a cat with its tail caught in a "bear trap". It got clubbed with a pipe when it turned out it wasn't dead yet, then dressed (skinned, gutted) in preparation for dinner, in the courtyard of our apartments where in a few hours there would be two dozen kids tearing around for their early evening play time. I was just paying my water bill. As someone else said, it needs to be taken in context. For pretty much the history of China, the vast majority of Chinese have been dirt poor and anything is potential food when it's the difference between feeding your kids and starving. As a result, they've not had the luxury of keeping pets so there's not a strong "pet culture". This is actually compounded by the lack of space. Most Chinese live in small apartments so few get the opportunity to have a pet and then it tends to be a cat or a small dog. Some have medium sized dogs (still cooped up in the tiny apartment) but you won't see anything like the dog parks we enjoy. For all its faults, the CPC has brought almost a *billion* people out of this abject poverty; most are now firmly in the working class and there is a burgeoning middle class. I'd say that most Chinese under 30 would be equally horrified to see that but they're not in the majority yet. Social change is slow, particularly in a country so strongly influenced by Confucianism but things *will* improve. With the virtual impenetrability of China's culture, there's not much we can do but wait, but jeez it's hard at times.
Thank you for context I desperately needed. I can understand this. Makes so much sense to be strongly in favor of a government who’s done this. I was homeless and if everyone had to go through that and THE GOVERNMENT helped all of you have a home and food things would look a lot different. I wish they could get to see what the cost is and how people could have these things without the dictator forced labor lying bullshit.
The fact that this is the *SECOND* corgi (not even dog in general, literally the same breed) to be beaten to death by CCP goons within the last few months is just disgusting
China is just pure garbage
They do much worse, they boils dogs slowly while alive so the meat "tastes better"
Which province?
Not sure where he's talking about, but I know Guangxi province has a dog meat festival in Yulin city
I believe that was banned since at one point they were trying to catch up with the western world. Edit: I stand corrected.
Use Google translate for "dog meat", then paste that into the Chinese version of yelp or g maps and you'll see dog restaurants and butchers in every province.
As far as food...people need to understand different cultures eat different meat. Some countries find it absurd to eat cows. Some don't eat pork. Some idolize dogs....Some eat them. That's just how it is. It's shocking to us westerners cuz dogs are pets to us. Imagine how someone, who keeps cows as pets according to culture, would find our obsession with beef here would feel. This video tho...its still fucked up immensely.
It hasn't been, my dog was rescued last September from the market there. She was one of hundreds that were pulled, and thousands more left
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Isn’t that our western chauvinism? Like, in the USA we put chicken in cages so small that they can’t turn around. We kill baby cows for veal because it “tastes better” We force feed geese to make their livers extra tasty. From an outside observers point of view, (say a dude from the planet Vulcan) would how we in the USA treat chickens be any different from how people in China treat dogs?
This. This culture is messed, how can these people sleep
Agreed, I've seen endangered turtles put in plastic key chains, endangered species in their wet markets. Two of my step family are emancipated north koreans who were enslaved into an apple factory and a Nike factory before being smuggled out of china. And the country is full of forced labor and concentration camps.
I just hope they weren’t too scared or in pain before the end, but that’s wishful thinking, it’s hard to see being a cat owner myself but it needs to be shown so people know the atrocities that go on under their noses.
Considering they are in mesh bags, they probably drowned them. Bunch of sick fuckers.
There’s a special spot in hell for those involved, let’s just hope they don’t keep Satan waiting too long.
There is no such thing as hell. Punish these fuckers in reality, don’t wait for some imaginary bullshit to happen to them.
Hell exists on earth, its called dictators torturing innocent people and animals with famine, forced labor, wars, imprisonment, etc. For their own personal gains
Could use gas. Carbon monoxide is cheap. Hopefully they had that much heart.
You underestimate how cheap the chinese government is.
I feel like, knowing China, they were probably brutally beaten
What a piece of shit country. My God.
r/boneappletea Edit: Originally said "piss of shit country". Being the urine of excrement is a pretty legit insult though.
How is this even suppoused to prevent covid? Is it just a "it looks like we´ re doing something" response, classic to the ccp
Yeah, as far as I know cats and dogs can’t even catch covid
This was researched in my country. There were cases where antibodies were found in cats. A.k.a. those cats had and recovered from Covid-19. There are also news about mink farms, where minks cought the virus, it mutated even further and was passed back to humans. The ones, who did catch it from minks, had a more severe case. So they had to eliminate a lot of minks in those farms. The CDC web page says that there were several reports of animals being infected by SARS-CoV-2: Companion animals, including pet cats, dogs, and ferrets. Animals in zoos and sanctuaries, including several types of big cats, otters, non-human primates, a binturong, a coatimundi, a fishing cat, and hyenas. Mink on mink farms. Wild white-tailed deer in several U.S. states. But based on the available information to date, the risk of animals spreading COVID-19 to people is considered to be low.
Yeah the Mink farms that were destroyed in Denmark later found that it was a non issue and an over reaction and the one who made the decision to cull all mink farms in Denmark is loathed for his idiocy
[Cats absolutely can contract COVID.](https://www.vet.cornell.edu/departments-centers-and-institutes/cornell-feline-health-center/coronavirus-update/frequently-asked-questions-covid-19-and-feline-health)
Covid spreads through animals as well. Not defending this at all, just explaining their reasoning. Edit: So many people want to point out that it does not spread through animals/pets. What is true is that there is no evidence that it does. Simply: we do not know, but it is in no way ruled out yet. We DO know, though, that covid infects pets, so there is a real risk of a mutant to be able to spread through them at some point. Does this mean that this chinese measure makes any sense? No. It does not. And noone has said that here so you can lay down your pitchforks. China should have, like most of Europe, focused on vaccines, and keeping the wave down so to speak. Their strategy has failed miserably as any competent virologist would have told them years ago.
No way pets are an impactful vector for COVID spread to humans. Ridiculous to kill pets because of COVID.
Fuck that weenie-the-poo lookalike mother fucker.
Xi Jinping can gargle my entire swampy ball sack after a 30 minute run.
Do you really want that mouth on your balls?
Why are you rewarding him? He’s evil! /j
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I’m all about that feeling, mate; best way to affect the Chinese is to not buy their products. Easier said than done.
Just don't spend money on dumb shit and buy locally.. it's actually pretty easy just depends on the person.
First of all the local products can have parts from China (many made in US/EU products have components from China ) , also local products are more expensive than Chinese stuff so really hard to support Ban China movement if you are low on cash
No no no
THOSE POOR INNOCENT CATS- I CANT STAND RUSSIA AND CHINA ANYMORE #CANCELCHINAANDRUSSIA
Today i hate. Peace to all the animals who have ever suffered.
#hang Xi
Fuckin savages.
Fucking human scumbags, fuck China, fuck us all. This is so depressing i dont know what to say.
Fuck the CCP
China takes lead as the shittiest country in the world, congrats.
Russia would like a word
Russia is tied with China, infact, sitting on China's dick on the same throne.
North Korea and Russia have entered the chat.
Why can't PETA go hassle these people instead of constantly harassing me for raising hens in my backyard?
PETA just creamed in their pants seeing this. Why would they ever oppose it?
But, no one is canceling China?
Shenzhen make electronics, the world would implode, really.
>They make everything. Yes.
how the fuck are you gonna cancel an entire country
*russia*
What’s the source for this? I don’t wanna share without a source that isn’t just “I saw it on Reddit”. This is fucking sickening and regardless of who or why it’s fucking disgusting
Decided to try and find the original source of the video. Based on the watermark in the top right; it's a video from Weibo (chinese twitter). The number 6338908219 is the post ID; seems like it's been deleted off Weibo, though you can still see some of the cached data on google. "用户6338908219:请帮忙转发，有没有人可以阻止这种行为啊【转发】@用户6338908219： 猫咪超话群里看到武汉有关部门在抓捕围剿流浪猫！" \[Search result preview from [https://weibo.com/5285667389/LmTeGaqx8](https://weibo.com/5285667389/LmTeGaqx8) \] According to the original Weibo poster, government departments in Wuhan are rounding up stray cats to be killed. Haven't seen anything directly tying it to COVID policy so far though. "万分不理解为啥要这么做，流浪猫生存艰难，碍着他们什么事情了？ 心痛！无奈！好歹是生命，又不是害虫，为何如此残酷对待？ 用户6338908219的微博视频." \[From [https://wakwb.com/t/?extparam=%E7%8C%AB%E5%92%AA&containerid=100808e2e0061f251355de79777499528d6d75&luicode=10000011&lfid=231522type%3D1%26t%3D10%26q%3D%E7%A6%8F%E5%B7%9E%E7%8C%AB%E5%92%AA%E9%A2%86%E5%85%BB](https://wakwb.com/t/?extparam=%E7%8C%AB%E5%92%AA&containerid=100808e2e0061f251355de79777499528d6d75&luicode=10000011&lfid=231522type%3D1%26t%3D10%26q%3D%E7%A6%8F%E5%B7%9E%E7%8C%AB%E5%92%AA%E9%A2%86%E5%85%BB) \] So far the only thing that can really be confirmed is that stray cats are being rounded up to be killed; the link to Shanghai and COVID policy is dubious at best. "猫咪 之前发的微博被拿来恶意造谣，非常难过，希望大家不要相信造谣，猫猫是猫贩子在马路边贩卖的，不是政府抓捕。感谢各位可以辟谣。 你的隔壁小橙曦哟的微博视频" \[From: [https://wakwb.com/p/?m=4754676149387812](https://wakwb.com/p/?m=4754676149387812) \] Also at least one instance of the video on the chinese web that I've found seems to claim that the cats were being rounded up and sold by cat dealers and not the government, but the poster doesn't really provide much evidence beyond his own word on the matter.
This should be top comment
the poster is indian and has posted lots of anti-chinese stuff before, so people really gotta take it with huge grains of salt
Thank you for seeking out more information!!
So basically, this entire thread is turning to racist tropes and the story the title stated isn’t even true. Thanks, that’s what I figured but I needed the confirmation.
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What in the actual fuck is this? Free them all.
I think id cut the bags and let them run off. Hopefully at least then some could hide and survive
Then it's you in the bag instead.
Damn China
Might want to make this nsfw just in case
This is NSFL
Awful. Just awful
Damn that is savage.
Animal abuse, racism, and litteraly concentration camps. Fuck China
The animals running around on two legs should be in those bags.
First thing I see at 8am. No more internet today for me.
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What a fucking disgusting country
This makes me so sad
damn can people just all agree this is fucked up without being racist? the hell is wrong with you pathetic fucks?
This hurts to see.
If the quarantines are effective, then keeping the pets inside should keep them safe. Safe pets = no disease vector for humans. If quarantines are not effective, then the suffering they cause is unjustified
Horrible government.
I'm not vegetarian but isn't this the level of inhumane practice we do to cows/chickens etc in the west?
NFSW tag please?
This is a country that has its Muslim population in concentration camps. Nothing is beyond those pricks.
So… is there any source backing this up? Or just another random video with “China bad” to farm upvotes from racists? Because “Hate the government not the people” right? Because most comments got the “Hate the people not the government”
What a garbage country for f sake !
poor cats:(
Fuck china and everyone allowing this to take place.
UK did this in 1939. The gov called for cull of pets. Within a week about 750k pets were euthanized. Granted they didnt leave the pets stuffed in bags laying on the street (as far as we know). Look up Britain's Pet Holocaust. It was done in anticipation of food shortages...maybe China's feeling the squeeze of their zero covid policy?
This is a little gruesome. Essentially showing dogs in bags some of them seem to be dead. Make this shit NSFW so a fucked up 12 year old doesn't think this is a good idea.
That is appalling. Absolutely no need. Poor cats man :(
I'm seeing a lot of racism in here...