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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.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Saturday April 11 2020, @09:37PM (1 child)
I agree. But the power elites of America have all sold us out to China. Do we just call all the people who used to make, say, washing machines and crowd-source a production line? Do we send Bob out with the truck to collect enough scrap metal and plastics and hand it off to Annie to smelt and roll out, and then hand it off to Jose to run a stamping machine?
I don't see any other way. No bank will fund Americans. No company's executives will invest in Americans. The politicians will probably try to outlaw Americans making things for themselves. It's just about that bad.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 13 2020, @08:38AM
Bob don't have a truck no more, he's got an SUV, and the scrap metal would be really bad for the upholstery.