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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.


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  • (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.

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