crime : crime : ABUSE OF ANIMALS IN CHINA FOR FUR INDUSTRY. [+] serious ballot by drinkaholic ACTIVE Wed Dec 14, 05 - Mon Sep 08, 08 Sir Paul McCartney has vowed never to perform in China after seeing horrific undercover footage of dogs and cats being killed for their fur. The former Beatle also said he would boycott the 2008 Beijing Olympics after viewing the footage taken in a fur market in Guangzhou, southern China. The film shows animals being thrown from a bus, and into boiling water. A Chinese official said boycotts were not justified, and blamed US and European consumers for buying the fur. In the film, dogs and cats packed by the dozen into wire cages little bigger than lobster pots are pictured being thrown from the top deck of a converted bus onto concrete pavements. The screaming animals, many with their paws now smashed from the fall, are then lifted out with long metal tongs and thrown over a seven foot fence. They are then killed and skinned for their fur. Animal welfare group PETA believes many of them are still alive as their skins are peeled away. "I wouldn't even dream of going over there to play in the same way I wouldn't go to a country that supported apartheid" -Sir Paul McCartney Sir Paul, and his wife Heather, looked aghast and close to tears as they watched the footage for a special report for the BBC's Six O'clock News to be screened on Monday. They urged people not to buy Chinese goods. "This is barbaric. Horrific," said Sir Paul. "It's like something out of the dark ages. And they seem to get a kick out it. They're just sick, sick people. "I wouldn't even dream of going over there to play, in the same way I wouldn't go to a country that supported apartheid. This is just disgusting. It's just against every rule of humanity. I couldn't go there." In another piece of the harrowing footage, shot this summer by an undercover investigator connected to the People for the Ethical treatment of Animals (Peta) campaign group, cats are seen squirming inside a sack which is then thrown into a vat of steaming water. They are boiled to death and skinned by a fleecing machine similar to a launderette tumble drier. Some of the 28-minute footage is too gruesome to be broadcast. Campaigners estimate that over two million dogs and cats are killed for their fur in China every year. China also farms animals such as mink for their fur and makes over half of the world's fur products. McCartney added: "How can the host nation of the Olympics be seen allowing animals to be treated in this terrible way?" Heather McCartney, herself a vociferous animal rights campaigner added: "I've seen so much footage where these poor creatures are clearly alive when they're skinned. And for what? For fashion? It's sick. "People in every other country in the world should now boycott Chinese goods." Dogs were seen in grim conditions "If they want to consider themselves a civilized nation," said Sir Paul, "they're going to have to stop this." A spokesman for the Chinese Ambassador in London told the BBC: "Though cats and dogs are not endangered, we do not encourage the ill treatment of cats and dogs. "But, anyway, the fur trade mostly feeds markets in the US and Europe. Most of this fur is not for the Chinese market. So the Americans and Europeans should accept the blame. "We have no plans to clamp down on this internally that I am aware of - it is for the US and Europeans to take their own action. They should boycott fur as a fashion material. "I do not agree with Mr McCartney and his wife's point of view - a boycott of Chinese goods and the Olympics is simply not justifiable." It is not currently illegal to trade in dog and cat fur in the UK and most of Europe. ---------------------- Do you with the approach McCartney and his wife have taken?I agree with him.Ive been trying to watch the video but I cant find it anywhere but just from reading the descriptions,I think its horrible that this is legal and happening as we speak.Animals are creatures too,I mean all thats suffering for what?Fur?Seriously,someone should show J.LO that video. I agree with McCartney I disagree with McCartney Ballot #84479 : SEE RESULTS Comment: show your vote with comment?

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