China is the second largest economy in the world. Producing almost all of the world’s products, materials and technology. But what is a country that makes its money off of brutality and cruelty? Off of bloody, ruthless and devastating violence against innocent and harmless animals.
Many celebrities, rich and wealthy people all have a fur coat or clothes made of animal fur in their wardrobes. However, many do not know the ugly truth about how their materials were made. A lot of imported fur comes from China because it is the largest export of animal fur. In fact, “China is the largest importer of fur pelts in the world, therefore making them the largest re-exporter of finished fur products,” according to Wikipedia research. A lot of animals such as sheep, raccoons, rabbits, foxes and most of all, dogs, are killed everyday just for their fur.
Many videos exposed by china’s very few activists or activists from the United Kingdom and the United states who have intervened with this issue, have either disguised themselves as workers or secretly captured footage on Chinese men and women workers hanging animals on sharp hooks. Once they are hung, the “workers” cut their fur viciously, trimming off their flesh. The animals’ bodies, some conscious and some unconscious, are then thrown onto piles of other furless and dead animals.
Moreover, many dogs that are scattered all over many places in China are not “welcome to their city.” In an article that talks of a mob of Chinese in a city called Shijiazhuang where “dogs aren’t allowed” throw bricks to two dogs who wandered off from an owner. They ended up in a hell hole where there was a “dog-hunt” to find them, shoot them six times and “chopped up by people hitting it with spades.”
In addition to such cruelty in China, there are flea markets that sell dog meat. Exposed pictures and videos show piles and piles of axed and chopped dogs. There is also dog meat trade, dogs slaughtered for human consumption.
The lack of strict protection of these helpless animals is beyond disbelief. There aren’t laws that ban a market from doing this. Recently, a group of activists wrote a letter to President Xi Jinping and urge him to put an end to the corrupt and horrific dog and cat meat and fur trades immediately. Over 4,000 signatures of support and bravery from people all around the world. Unluckily, with China’s 1.8 billion populations, it almost seems as if no one cares. True ignorance is truly unbelievable.
“I think animal cruelty in China takes it to a whole another level of brutality,” says high school student Ricardo Melendez. He says he has watched horrific clips and footage of the way animals “especially dogs” are treated. “A lot of my friends have shown me videos on like YouTube, and words cannot describe how I feel. I blame the government because they don’t force laws on animal cruelty as much as they should be and they are responsible for controlling injustice behavior.”
“Where else are we going to get fur from? I mean don’t get me wrong, I think it’s horrible of the way these animals are treated to get fur however, we can’t stop the use of trade. The world relies on money so it’s an issue that will remain because no one can actually stop the world,” says Dre Liason. He believes this issue has no solution.
“I hate people who use fur. It’s so wrong like even people in music videos use it and for what? They look ridiculous. No creature deserves to be treated this way at all,” says high school student Sky Pina who resents the usage of fur coats and “would do anything to stop it.”
Many argue that animal cruelty is a huge issue all of us should be against however; others may argue that it benefits trade and increases money. They may say you can’t change trade, you can’t stop animal testing because it’s been attempted to stop however very few companies have stopped it. If many people from countries all around the world take a stand, it can help stop the way animals are treated. It’s a controversial issue and we must speak for the creatures that can’t.