I’m no PETA activist, but I do believe that events like China’s “Animal Olympics” are disgusting. I don’t know exactly how to explain my feelings on “the ethical treatment of animals,” but I do know I’m on a completely different page than PETA.

For one, I eat meat. I am pro-hunting, I don’t really mind fur (unless it’s from clubbing baby seals - that just sounds wrong), and I ultimately think that animal experimentation in the medical fields is good if it is beneficial to humans. My beef (bad pun intended) is this: being intentionally mean to animals isn’t cool.

Let me say that in a slightly more mature way… I feel that people are obligated to a certain degree to treat animals kindly. In other words, when people abuse their pets (or anyone’s pets for that matter) it really ticks me off. They’re hurting an innocent animal whose only means of survival are in their owner. The dog, cat, horse, or gerbil cannot defend itself. I think mistreatment of pets is cruel and ungodly. These Chinese “Animal Olympics” fall under that category in my mind. What purpose does punching a kangaroo serve? It’s just stupid. You’re not getting anything from it - food, clothing, medicine, etc. You’re just being cruel.

That said, I don’t know why it surprises anyone when there are stories of atrocities committed against domesticated animals in China.

This is a society that has no respect for human life - forced sterilization and abortions, absolutely no intellectual and religious freedom, etc - why on earth should they treat animals any differently?

It actually makes me angry when animal rights activists get upset about China’s behavior. I cannot, for the life of me, understand why they go crazy when someone punches a kangaroo, but they don’t bat an eye at the murder of millions of unborn children. Of all the horrible actions China’s communist system condones, you choose to talk about some animals? Their world is so small, so out of touch with reality, that they have no perspective of what is truly happening there.

I know some “conservatives” probably think that I’m being wishy-washy about wanting animals to be treated decently. But I just think of my two puppies, whose lives basically revolve around my family. They’re sweet and innocent, and I hate to imagine other animals like them being treated cruelly.

What I hate even worse, is seeing newborn babies in church or at the store, and imagining how many of their peers have been senselessly murdered in the name of “reproductive rights” or “population control.”

You tell me, what is the greater injustice? There is no reason a society that murders its own children would feel in any way obligated to treat animals ethically.