In the 120 year history of the Olympics, no country has hosted the Summer and Winter games. Beijing has the distinction of the only country to do so in the span of 14 years. They held the 2008 Summer Olympics and now will host the 2022 Winter Olympics. You can view the expensive and elaborate 2008 opening ceremony in the video for which they have been reported to have spent over $40 billion for the entire Olympic games.
I am astounded this country won this international coup for a second time after the news media outlets spoke of the tens of thousands of cats who were trapped, removed, placed in microwave-sized pens waiting for any owners, if any, to retrieve them with most being killed in the process prior to the games. The culling of the cats was to ensure the city (Beijing) looked its best for its 2008 Olympics. Cats and dogs are killed in some of the most inhumane ways imaginable.
News outlets also showcased the many stray dogs being saved by Olympic athletes in 2008. Some were flown to the states where they had new forever homes.
In 2006, over 50,000 dogs were purged (killed) from the city which included pet dogs removed directly from pet owners on the street or stolen from yards. Dogs were thrown into buses in order to be killed.
China is also home to the annual Yulin Dog Meat Festival, “a controversial tradition where thousands of dogs are killed, often in inhumane ways, for their meat and eaten in the southern Guangxi province, despite international calls for the festival’s ban. The 2015 Yulin Dog Meat Festival has drawn the wrath of animal rights groups from around the world who say this is animal cruelty at its worst. Dogs are crammed in cages and endure cruel treatment such as beatings and being skinned alive!”
A butcher grilling a dog who has been butchered at the Yulin Dog Festival
The custom of eating dog meat in China dates back centuries with man’s best friend still considered a delicacy in parts of China. Dog meat was banned from all restaurants surrounding the 2008 Olympic village. For a few weeks, dogs were safe from the clutches of these monsters.
The Dog Meat Festival was first held in 2009. “Many of the dogs are stolen from urban households and from farmers by thieves who sell the dogs for “easy money,” said Andrea Gung, a representative of a California animal rights group, the Duo Duo Welfare Project. Gung said she witnessed the preparation of dogs at the Yulin festival in 2014. “Some dogs were still wagging their tails when they were being killed in the slaughterhouse,” she said.
Not only does China treat dogs and cats atrociously (except for those who have dogs/cats as pets and those who are saving their lives), they have no respect for human life.
Baby girls are not considered desirable nor acceptable in China. “They have a one-child policy for “population control” enforced by the state with forced sterilizations, abortions, and gendercide. Some parents have been known to take matters into their own hands.” If you’re allowed only two children, and you already have one girl…well, in a culture where males are valued much more highly than females, it’s not hard to imagine what follows. Baby girls are stuck in sacks and thrown in rivers and down wells, even dumped upside-down in buckets of water.”
“The United Nations estimates that about 200 million girls are missing from the world due to this rampant genocide – now commonly called “gendercide.” The effects of these heinous practices, as time goes on, could be devastating in parts of Asia, as men look around and realize that all their potential wives do not exist.”
The International Olympic Committee views Beijing as a secure, reliable choice. “It really is a safe choice,” IOC President Thomas Bach said. “We know China will deliver on its promises.”
How could anyone think Beijing is a safe choice when it is crystal clear they have no respect for life, whether it is human or animal? The murder of innocent beings is not representative of the Olympics. Modern Olympics was supposed to provide a forum for the world to come together peacefully for the mutual enjoyment of universal sport.
Beijing represents nothing that resembles peace when they are responsible for all of these deaths.
Next time you buy an item and find it was made in China, remember there is a second choice!
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China is one of the if not the cruelest country in the world to animals.
I hate China! How they treat animals is infuriating and makes me boiling mad. They treat their people the same way. I want to say what I really feel. They are nothing but crap! They can go to hell for what they do to the innocent! Don’t buy anything made from China!