Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

SoylentNews is people

posted by martyb on Saturday April 11 2020, @12:14AM   Printer-friendly
from the Fido-Lives! dept.

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.


Original Submission

 
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
Display Options Threshold/Breakthrough Mark All as Read Mark All as Unread
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
  • (Score: -1, Troll) by aristarchus on Saturday April 11 2020, @06:11AM (13 children)

    by aristarchus (2645) on Saturday April 11 2020, @06:11AM (#981035) Journal

    Runaway, you are doing it again. You are displaying your ignorance in a way that only Donald himself could rival. If you want us to listen to you, you should stick to facts, not what you have heard in your ignorant and storied life. It is like listening to Trump go on about tariffs, with his petty businessman's understanding of economics. He is just wrong, because he is stupid. Intellectually incurious, as they use to say of Precedent W Bush. But in your case, there never was any curious to not be of. So Sad. You are a worse loser than Trump, Runaway, as evident by your ignorance, poverty, and hoplophilia.

    Starting Score:    1  point
    Moderation   -2  
       Flamebait=1, Troll=2, Insightful=1, Total=4
    Extra 'Troll' Modifier   0  

    Total Score:   -1  
  • (Score: 1, Redundant) by Runaway1956 on Saturday April 11 2020, @06:24AM (12 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Saturday April 11 2020, @06:24AM (#981044) Journal

    We should listen to a faux petty philosopher instead? Sure, I understand that you are intellectually curious, but the world doesn't revolve, or rotate, around some curiosity that wishes it understood the philosophy from a long dead era that it regurgitates from time to time. Civilizations have arisen and fallen since the time of those long-dead Greeks - including those Greek's own civilization. Although, come to think of it, the real Aristarchus was just about contemporary with some of the Chin.

    • (Score: 0, Flamebait) by aristarchus on Saturday April 11 2020, @06:31AM (11 children)

      by aristarchus (2645) on Saturday April 11 2020, @06:31AM (#981046) Journal

      Seriously, you petty hillbilly ex-trucker, you have no idea who you are talking to, here, do you? Do you not think I was not intimately aware of the writings o Shang-yang, and Han Fei Zi? Yes, took them some time to make it over the Silk Road to Alexandria, but books were more valuable than silk, much like how in these times ideas are more important than idiotic emotional appeals to the least educated Americans. I am the real Aristarchus, you idiot. And you really, really, have no idea what racist bullshit you are repeating from your Russian paymasters.

      • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Saturday April 11 2020, @06:49AM (10 children)

        by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Saturday April 11 2020, @06:49AM (#981048) Journal

        ideas are more important than idiotic emotional appeals

        Funny you should mention that. Which party is more worried about "my feelz"? I mean, we can't call a fag a fag, can't name a whore as a whore, can't even notice or make mention of a prson's color, because we might offend them? Yeah, I gotta agree that ideas are more important than "my feelz", which is why I don't respect "safe spaces". Thank you for agreeing with me!!

        Now, back to ideas - Chinese is almost a race unto itself in some ways, but it's race+ in some ways too. It's like they are almost all one big extended family.

        • (Score: 3, Touché) by aristarchus on Saturday April 11 2020, @07:03AM (9 children)

          by aristarchus (2645) on Saturday April 11 2020, @07:03AM (#981049) Journal

          China is a culture, you moran! A Civilization. When your ancestors were watching the Medieval Minstrel verision of "Tiger King" the Chinese were doing math, astronomy, medicine and engineering that would blow your socks off. No, seriously, you are too ignorant to even attempt to educate, Runaway! i have had students like you in past, millennia ago, veterans of the Asiatic wars, dumb as whole bags of hammers, but no one could tell them they were wrong, because they were so certain they were right. Even though everything they thought they knew was completely wrong. Not long ago, Runaway, you completely embarrassed your self here on SoylentNews with your total ignorance about the population of China. And you think anyone should trust your judgement on a Civilization that was very far along while your ancestors where still working out the connection be sex and pregnancy? Please! Spare us your lack of knowledge, Runaway! You grow tiresome, and are revealing yourself to be a fucktard racist hillbilly. Stop

          • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday April 11 2020, @07:22AM (2 children)

            by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Saturday April 11 2020, @07:22AM (#981052) Journal

            veterans of the Asiatic wars,

            I think that you're a veteran of the psychic wars.

            Population of China? You'll have to refresh my memory on the supposed "embarrasment". A billion and a half, give or take? https://www.ceicdata.com/en/indicator/china/population [ceicdata.com]

            • (Score: 4, Funny) by aristarchus on Saturday April 11 2020, @07:50AM (1 child)

              by aristarchus (2645) on Saturday April 11 2020, @07:50AM (#981056) Journal

              Runaway, you are an idiot. An imbecile. An ignoramous. A dilletante. A poser. A knave and a poltroon. You are too stupid to carry on a conversation with. So I will just continue to insult you. Some of these you may not recognize as insults, you roundhead pollywagger, but take my word for it, they are. You denizen of the most shit-hole county in Arkansas, dependent on Foreigners for employment! Purveyor of Fox News Talking points! You mendacious bastard! Racist pig! Untermenschen lumpenproletariat! Slack-jawed Slantern! 小人! Petty Minded Hater of Those Smarter than yourself! Snaggle-toothed Bald-headed Poofta! Bespawler of the juice of Tobacco! Fopdoodle with appendage! You did not know the population of China, in accordance with the rest of your ignorance, some time ago when you make a typical stupid post, and you were called upon it. Now, like Seah Hankity, you try to rewrite history, by Googling? Oh, thin gruel, Runaway! Your ignorance is apparent to one and all, and the libs, well, any moderately educated liberal, or conservative, can see you are filled with the most deleterious excrement. Do not reply to this comment, Runaway. As your superior, I command you! Do not!
                 

              • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday April 11 2020, @10:22AM

                by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Saturday April 11 2020, @10:22AM (#981083) Journal

                I'll just remind you that I have met superiors in my lifetime. They are few, and far between, almost as rare as hen's teeth. Aristarchus, the original, may have been my superior. Faux Aristarchus? ROFLMAO, your dreams aren't even that good!

          • (Score: 3, Insightful) by maxwell demon on Saturday April 11 2020, @08:18AM (5 children)

            by maxwell demon (1608) on Saturday April 11 2020, @08:18AM (#981064) Journal

            China is a culture

            No. China is a country. There certainly are cultural traits common to the people in China, but that only means that Chinese culture exists, not that China is a culture.

            --
            The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
            • (Score: 3, Insightful) by aristarchus on Saturday April 11 2020, @08:33AM (4 children)

              by aristarchus (2645) on Saturday April 11 2020, @08:33AM (#981071) Journal

              I would deg to biffer. China has never been a country until the Warlord Kiang Kai Shek tried to make it one. Or perhaps 孫逸仙, but when 毛泽东 took over, really China went back to being an Empire, and did not emerge to be a "country" until Tricky Dick Nixon visited. And they still are not used to to. Love how the elections for Parliment in Taiwan where advertised as the first democratic elections since 1949, when actually they were the first in China, ever, and then only a small bandit province of China.

              No, China is a culture. Ethnicity does not define Chinese-ness, as much as the Han would like to think so. And Vietnam, Singapore, Korea(s) and Japan all fall under Chinese civilization. History, philosophy, religion, writing systems, Confucianism. Only recently has China realized it is only one among many, and it has not quite sunk in, yet. Maxwell, give me Tibet for $500!

              • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Saturday April 11 2020, @01:28PM (2 children)

                by maxwell demon (1608) on Saturday April 11 2020, @01:28PM (#981107) Journal

                I wonder what your definition of “country” is. Because I would certainly consider an empire to be a country.

                In any case, China is a political entity. It is neither an ethnicity nor a culture.

                --
                The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
                • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 11 2020, @09:34PM

                  by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 11 2020, @09:34PM (#981296)

                  I would certainly consider an empire to be a country.

                  Ireland (N and S) and Scotland would like a word with you.

                  Puerto Rico would like a word with you.

                  Etc.

                • (Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Sunday April 12 2020, @12:44AM

                  by barbara hudson (6443) <barbara.Jane.hudson@icloud.com> on Sunday April 12 2020, @12:44AM (#981371) Journal
                  The British Empire, the Spanish Empire, the Aztec Empire - none of those was a country. They were empires. So an empire is my re than a country.
                  --
                  SoylentNews is social media. Says so right in the slogan. Soylentnews is people, not tech.
              • (Score: 2) by Thexalon on Saturday April 11 2020, @02:49PM

                by Thexalon (636) on Saturday April 11 2020, @02:49PM (#981141)

                China has never been a country until the Warlord Kiang Kai Shek tried to make it one.

                Qin Shi Huang would definitely disagree with you. I mean, how badass do you have to be to have your name on the map 2200 years after you conquered the relevant territory? And there were several successor dynasties that controlled a large percentage of the territory now known as modern China.

                Like a lot of countries, China has had times when it was internally divided, and also had changes to what territory they actually controlled on their edges, but that makes them no different from most other modern countries, from Russia to Germany to the USA.

                And this is all to the degree that the word "country" means anything other than "an territory under a common governmental structure at any particular time in history", of course. The concept that it meant anything other than that was invented in approximately the late 1800's to convince people to fight in wars while the kings and other top brass stayed safe at home.

                --
                The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.