[654] in peace2
Re: [aapn] Help St Bernards from Torture (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Soenneker)
Thu Apr 12 18:45:30 2001
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Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 18:47:17 -0400
To: Karen Sachs <karens@mit.edu>, peace-list@mit.edu, save@mit.edu
From: Richard Soenneker <dickj@MIT.EDU>
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>Sign it, then forward to EVERYONE you know. IF YOU ARE THE 50th
>SIGNATURE,
>could you please then forward the petition to Elly :
>bopfm@enternet.co.nz
>before forwarding it to your friends.
>
> PETITION TO STOP THE EXPORT OF ST BERNARD DOGS TO ASIA AS TABLE MEAT
>
> St Bernard dogs are being exported to Asia (China,Phillipines, etc) as
>table
> meat. Some of these dogs are first tortured to increase their adrenaline
>levels BECAUSE IT IS BELIEVED THAT THIS MAKES THE MEAT TASTE SWEETER, then
>skinned alive. These animals are being killed because their meat is
>considered to be an aphrodisiac.
a bit more info on this chain email:
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/petition/bernard.htm
a short note about the content of the email from that page:
"Two of the points often mentioned -- that the dogs "are sometimes
subjected to a painful death because breeders believe that the resulting
adrenalin rush improves the flavour" (or because this supposedly enhances
the aphrodisiacal qualities of the meat) and that St. Bernards are being
imported into China in large numbers -- are more difficult to verify. The
St. Bernard is supposedly the preferred dog in China because it yields a
better-tasting and more economical source of meat than other breeds, but
it doesn't make much economic sense to go to all the expense of importing
thousands of dogs from other countries when breeders could simply raise
them much more cheaply themselves.
Still, though the idea of someone's eating St. Bernards (or any other type
of dog) may be abhorrent to us, it's also rather hypocritical of us to
demand that it stop. Even if the Chinese are eating dogs, why is that any
different than our eating lamb, for example? Would America react with
anything but scorn if Hindus around the world presented the U.S. with a
petition demanding that we stop the "abhorrent practice" of eating cows and
exporting beef?"
Richard Soenneker
Dickj@mit.edu
"Human life begins beyond despair." J.P.Sartre
