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Re: [aapn] Help St Bernards from Torture (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (paladin@lillith.mit.edu)
Thu Apr 12 19:18:04 2001
From: paladin@lillith.mit.edu
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 19:15:48 -0400 (EDT)
To: Richard Soenneker <dickj@MIT.EDU>
cc: Karen Sachs <karens@MIT.EDU>, peace-list@MIT.EDU
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Thank you all very much.
Eric Downes
On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Richard Soenneker wrote:
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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
>
