China reclassifies dogs as pets instead of livestock
China's Ministry of Agriculture issued new guidelines Wednesday that reclassify dogs as pets instead of livestock, part of the country's response to the coronavirus pandemic.
"As far as dogs are concerned, along with the progress of human civilization and the public concern and love for animal protection, dogs have been 'specialized' to become companion animals ... and they will not be regulated as livestock in China," the notice said.
The coronavirus is believed to have originated in horseshoe bats, which may have passed the disease to other wildlife species for sale in the markets of Wuhan, where the virus was first detected.
Following the outbreak, China banned the breeding, trading and consumption of wildlife.
Also at Reuters.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 11 2020, @12:59AM (6 children)
Your mistake is in thinking all other people are as intelligent and objective as you are.
(Score: 2) by meustrus on Sunday April 12 2020, @12:39AM (5 children)
This.
There are stupid racists out there a ping up their bigotry against Chinese-Americans because of the "Chinese virus". Like it makes a damn bit of difference. They're just too stupid to know what Chinese is supposed to mean.
Of course, responsible people understand this and avoid saying things that will cause stupid people to Amp up their bigotry. Irresponsible people don't care who gets hurt by the stupid people that hear their words.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 12 2020, @02:26AM (4 children)
Collateral damage. We are at war.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 12 2020, @07:14AM (3 children)
No, we are not. We are at near quarantine. Not even quite Plague, yet. But the Donald thinks he is at war with some very smart Germ(mans), so brilliant they developed a resistance to antibiotics. Medical genius, that Donald.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-vice-president-pence-members-coronavirus-task-force-press-briefing-24/ [whitehouse.gov]
Hoooboy!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 13 2020, @06:10AM (2 children)
No, we have been having a cold war with China since long before President Trump bumbled into office. The problem is that Americans won't take it seriously until after China wins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 13 2020, @08:25AM
The war with Commie Russia was in 1918, in Siberia. war with China was in 1950, in Korea. (Chicoms were allies prior), and teh other war with the Soviet Ruskies was in the '60s, in Vietnam. About the end of the American Anti-commie wars, oh, except Reagan in Grenada, where the US military, with its usual precision, bombed a hospital. Let's at least keep the history straight, shall we, Hm?
(Score: 2) by meustrus on Monday April 13 2020, @05:57PM
All things considered, cold wars are better than hot wars.
Nixon did a very good thing for the country by starting trade with China. China obviously got the better end of the deal there, but if they were shut out forever we likely would have already experienced World War 3. Now, we import so much from China and have so much debt to them that their economy would crash if they declared war, because imports would stop and we would cancel the debt.
China is too big and too well organized for anything we do to stop their ascent. The only way to win is to play the game better. This notion that our unfair deals with China are worse than the available alternatives? It's nonsense.
(at the national level, that is; no business should ever have been gullible enough to fall for the forced tech-transfer deals, those are absolutely worse than no deal)
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