China abuses all animals. They abuse people. They abuse the air, the water, the soil. They are this massive growing populace that is the epitome of how horrible Humans can be to this planet, I’m not trying to overstate their impact or make them seem like a horrible country. But they just seem to streamroll over anything that gets in their way, which just happens to be nature most of the time.

People are quick to judge, but if you think about it, every culture has practiced (or is practicing) weird forms of animal abuse. In the US it was the passenger pigeon, a quote from an article of Damn Interesting:

Boys used long sticks to knock the birds and their young from nests where they were then clubbed as they rained down. Fire and sulphur were used to suffocate the birds as they roosted. Live pigeons with eyes sewn shut were also used as decoys to attract other pigeons (they were called “stools”, hence the phrase “stool pigeon”). Of course the shotgun was an ever-popular option. One published account quoted a man who recalled shooting blindly into a tree at night and collecting 18 birds. Migrating flocks provided a steady stream of birds that flew so close that 50 could be brought down with a single blast. When the bounty proved too much for a single man or even a single town to use, hogs were loosed to clean the ground of dead pigeons and helpless chirping squabs.

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