"Intressant söndagsläsning om djurrätt i Kina."Sprang på en lång och läsvärd text på forbes.com idag - Animal Rights In China. Texten är en intervju med en Peter J. Li (föredömligt förnamn för övrigt) och ger läsvärd inblick i villkoren för djur och djurrättsrörelsen i Kina.
Å ena sidan låter det extremt deprimerande:
"Animal suffering is unprecedented in China in magnitude in both numerical terms (having the largest number of nonhuman animals in farming units) and in welfare conditions. With regard to China’s ranking on a global report card, so to speak, I would not hesitate to say that it may be at the bottom, if not the very bottom. Why do I say so? Look at the facts: Mainland China does not have a comprehensive animal protection law. Animal cruelty is not a punishable offense. China has the world’s largest number of animals in the industrialized farms. China’s continuing development model gives priority to productivity increase defined in terms of material gains. China’s pro-business politics has made societal voices for animal protection a nuisance to policy-makers and the business communities alike. The overall political environment is against activism for animal protection, certainly in the foreseeable future."Å andra sidan något mer optimistiskt inför framtiden:
"China is changing beyond recognition in many areas. Dog eating is rejected by the majority of the younger generation, many of whom are the single child of their parents. They have no recollection of hardship days and are enormously more sensitive to suffering. They demand and get care and love. To them, it is natural for the same kind of emotional care to be given to others including nonhuman animals. Many of these youngsters display great sympathy and compassion for the disadvantaged. Those who stopped the trucks of dogs on China’s highways were all young Chinese activists; members of China’s burgeoning animal protection movement."Och jag påminns om en PETA-person jag känner som länge argumenterat för att djurrättsrörelsen borde lägga all sin energi på länder i Asien, utifrån att det är där djurutnyttjandes omfattning växer som mest just nu. Jag kan komma på en hel del argument till varför detta inte håller, men ändå.




