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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: 3, Informative) by Phoenix666 on Saturday April 11 2020, @09:32PM
"Chinese" is actually not a race, but a nationality. Most people conflate "Chinese" with the group of people they mean. The name of the actual race is "Han." To put it in a more familiar context, it's like claiming that "Ebola" is racist against Ebolans.
Most people in the West do not know that China has many ethnic groups and the Han, while being by far the largest, are only one of them. If you look at the area of China where the Han live, it's about 1/3 of the total; basically, everything from Harbin in the NE to Xian in the West to Hong Kong in the South, and then up the coast is Han country.
Ethnic Mongolians inhabit Inner Mongolia, though I believe they have become a minority there because Beijing has been flooding them with Han settlers. Uighurs inhabit Xinjiang in the NW, bordering Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. Ethnic Tibetans inhabit Qinghai (part of the Tibetan Plateau) and Tibet. Yunnan in the SW bordering Vietnam, Laos, and Burma comprises something like 50+ ethnic minorities.
In other words, this must be called "Chinese Coronavirus" or, more specifically, "Wuhan Coronavirus." Those claiming "Chinese" is racist are incorrect, and that the Western press is not reporting that represents a significant propaganda victory for the Chinese Communist Party.
Washington DC delenda est.