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China's History of Exotic Meat and Deadly Diseases

Sangita Iyer | Posted 04.29.2013 | Canada
Read More: Animal Cruelty, Civet Cat, Pandemic, Daoism, China, Republic of China, Sars, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, Confucianism, Cats, Cantonese Cuisine, Coronavirus, Chinese Government, Mass Killing, Mao, Human Health, Mao Zedong, Guangdong, Buddhism, Exotic Meat, Dogs, SARS China, Canada News
Sangita Iyer

China does have a tradition of compassion for nonhumans. So the daunting question is: what went so awry that in the name of economic development, both farm and wild animals are now being treated ruthlessly, even as they're being driven to the brink of extinction? What is the root cause of the animal welfare crisis, especially in mainland China?

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Chinese Dams Will Damn the Country

Patricia Adams | Posted 06.12.2012 | Canada Politics
Read More: Reservoir-Induced Seismicity, Dam Collapse, Earthquake, Tsunami, Dams, China, Chinese Dams, Earthquakes, Chinese Government, Tibetan Plateau, Canada Politics News
Patricia Adams

Chinese citizens are becoming increasingly vociferous in their outrage over lives risked, and lost, to shoddy standards, most recently in the country's food and high-speed rail industry. Should a dam suffer catastrophic dam collapse, that anger could quickly spill over to the hydropower industry for threatening ordinary citizens' lives.

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