china archive at Haemet

With all the news lately surrounding the mass recalls of Mattel toys that were made in China, I feel like now is a good time to let you all know about a great new website: NotChinaMade.net, exploring the dangers of trading with China.

My good friend, MommyZabs, is the creator/author of Not China Made.

In the description of her site, MZ writes:

Before I take you any further on this blog I would like to first explain how I arrived to where I’m at. One day, while doing my typical blog surfing, I came upon a link that read 61 Christian Women forced to have abortions. Being avidly pro-life, I clicked it curious what I would find. I ended up on the China View Blog. What I read left me completely shocked.

While I had known for quite awhile that China practices population control through their one-child policy, and has always hated it, this time it penetrated much deeper. Reading the stories of my Christian brothers and sisters on the other side of the world having their almost to term, and sometimes at term babies, ripped out of their bodies tore a hole in my heart beat. Having a 2 children under the age of 4 it has not been long since I have felt my babies growing inside. The idea of doing your best to keep those babies alive and protect them from a government that wants them dead struck a new chord for me. The government deciding to suck life out of you and killing it with their bare hands if the baby somehow survived the process.

And that is only one reason why she started her new blog. I would really encourage you to add this to your daily reads.

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.