http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14139027/from/RS.5/

SHANGHAI, China - China slaughtered 50,000 dogs in a government-ordered crackdown after three people died of rabies, sparking unusually pointed criticism in state media Tuesday and an outcry from animal rights activists.

Health experts said the brutal policy pointed to deep weaknesses in the health care infrastructure in China, where only 3 percent of dogs are vaccinated against rabies and more than 2,000 people die of the disease each year.

The five-day slaughter in Mouding county in Yunnan province in southwestern China ended Sunday and spared only military guard dogs and police canine units, state media reported.

Dogs being walked were seized from their owners and beaten to death on the spot, the Shanghai Daily newspaper reported. Led by the county police chief, killing teams entered villages at night creating noise to get dogs barking, then beat the animals to death, the reports said.

Owners were offered 63 cents per animal to kill their own dogs before the teams were sent in, they said.

The killings were widely discussed on the Internet, with both legal scholars and animal rights activists criticizing them as crude and cold-blooded. The World Health Organization said more emphasis needed to be placed on rabies prevention.


Disgusting.

I looked.

i read some time ago peta killed a lot of animals, dogs cats , any one else read it?

OMG Heather, that's horrible

Makes me appreciate living in America even more!

As sick and disgusting as that is...those kinda bastards do the same to people. Saddam did worse to people. And lotsa folks didn't get too stirred up about it. (not pointing at anyone specific)

Way to turn it political Snoop.

PETA is a big believer in euthanasia for animals... not that we want to bring that topic up again.

I don't think caring for animals and caring for people is mutually exclusive. Just because someone gets worked up over puppies doesn't mean they don't get worked up over people, too.

It is political. Who do ya think ordered and executed it? Damn Chineese government! What kind of people do you think they are?

Ok yes, it's political in relation to the chinese government since that's where this is going on, but that's not where you took it. You compared it to Saddam, and how many other threads do we have going about that?

Mean! They are mean people! If they do this kind of horrible thing to cuddly, cute dogs I can't imagine what they do to ugly humans. I'm so sorry I forgot to mention the mistreated people of China in the Noah's Ark part of this forum. I regularly scan past all the other bazillion threads on politics because I actually hate humans and think animals should rule people.

You mean animals don't rule people? Cr@p! My dog makes me take him out every single morning 15 - 30 minutes before my alarm goes off! My cat meows in the middle of the night until I finally get up and put more food in his bowl (even though it wasn't empty.)

My animals rule me. Apparently you haven't gotten those two kittens yet!

I don't think I will eat Chinese anymore. I always thought it was just a myth that they eat dogs... but, that article confirms it. BLECH!!!

I seriously doubt Chinese food in America contains any type of canine or feline.

However, it does contain pig, cow, chicken and fish, and possibly rat, mouse turds and cockroaches.

Inspiration for a blog entry.