In the area of environmental protection, some Western countries are really a little bit windy and grassy, and they come when they smell it. For example, as early as 2021, some foreign media claimed that Chinese ate the world's fish to the brink of extinction and should learn from the West how to protect animals.
This was followed by accusations that Chinese eating meat is not environmentally friendly, and even shocking remarks that Chinese eating rice also pollutes the environment.
Western countries' environmental protection requirements for China
How do they do it themselves? Is it really more vegetarian than a monk and doesn't eat a little bit of meat?
Sanctimonious Western animal protection laws
Animal protection has a long history in the West, as early as 1654, England enacted the "English Animal Protection Act", which defined the act of picking wool from sheep and tying ploughs to the tail of horses as cruelty to domestic animals.
But at the same time, the British were building colonies everywhere by burning, killing and looting, and animal protection seemed ironic from the beginning.
Today, there are more than 10 laws related to animal protection in the UK, such as the Pet Law, the Cockfighting Law, the Animal Narcotics Protection Act, etc., which are comprehensive, and those who abuse animals are subject to fines, and even the painless slaughter of animals raised for food.
In 1641, the Massachusetts colonies passed the first law in North America to protect livestock, and livestock were protected, but the blacks who were inhumanely abused on the plantations at that time were ignored. In today's United States, the adoption of pets must be implanted with a microchip to facilitate the search after loss, and there is no need to make a fuss about gangsters on the street, but the loss of pets is really a big search.
In 1936, Germany introduced the world's first complete animal protection law, the Imperial Animal Protection Act, which stipulated that live fish, crabs and lobsters could not be cooked, otherwise there was a prison sentence, on the one hand, to protect animals from abuse, on the other hand, to massacre 6 million Jews, the behavior is staggeringly divisive.
Today, with the highly developed civilization, animal protection has become the theme of the times.
In Switzerland, there are strict laws regarding rabbit breeding, which requires hay and straw to be fed, the rabbit's cage must be sheltered so that the rabbit can stretch its whole body, and the pregnant rabbit must be kept alone in a compartment. In Poland, dogs are forbidden to be kept on a leash for more than 12 hours because environmentalists believe that not having free movement is harmful to animal health.
In Sweden, the Animal Welfare Act stipulates that animals must be treated well and be protected, and that restrictions on the animal's habitat, overwork, and freedom of movement are all stated that no one can harm the animal without a valid reason.
In Japan, indiscriminate killing and indiscriminate harm to animals are punishable by up to one year in prison and a fine of 1 million yen, and a fine of 300,000 yen for animal abuse and abandonment.
In Canada, medical insurance is provided for pets, and it is illegal to kill animals, and intentional cruelty to animals is punishable by more than 5 years in prison. In Italy, the owner must walk the dog at least three times a day, and anyone who abuses or abandons a pet can be sentenced to 1 year in prison or a fine of 10,000 euros .......
Crazy "double standard"
It seems that Western countries are using laws to protect animals, which is touching and tearful, but the irony is that Poland is one of the largest fox fur producers in the world, with more than 800 fox farms and 200,000 foxes in captivity.
Every year, about 10,000 foxes are slaughtered and skinned, and a fur coat needs 10-20 skins of normal-sized foxes, and in order to fatten, foxes are kept in cages forever and fed until the skin grows to the maximum area, and the weight at this time is more than 5 times that of a normal fox.
Denmark, one of the world's largest mink production bases, slaughters more than 13 million minks every year, and 15 million minks were slaughtered at one time during the pandemic to prevent animal infection.
The United States is the world's largest consumer of fur, with a $40 billion fur market, and a pair of limited-edition AJ sneakers with a lot of value seem to be unremarkable, but they are actually made from the skins of nine animals, including haiyao and lizard. The ostrich skin was stripped from a baby ostrich about 1 year old, and judging by the life span of an ostrich, it is just a baby.
The Canadian luxury brand's crocodile leather bag worth 2.94 million Hong Kong dollars is made by cutting the crocodile with rough skin and flesh alive from the back and using the softest leather on the belly.
Japan even slaughtered dolphins on a large scale......
In the West, animal protection is one thing to say and do another, and it doesn't feel out of place at all.
Many countries in the West have funded the establishment of various environmental protection organizations to promote the importance of protecting animals, but in fact they are the largest consumers of animal slaughter and fur.
Almost all animal organizations have been exposed to animal cruelty. For example, PETA, a well-known animal protection organization in the United States, according to media reports, the organization brutally killed 2,324 animals in 2014.
It is speculated that 25,000 animals were killed at their headquarters alone, and in order to deceive the masses into sympathy, they filmed the process into a video and publicized it, attracting people to compete for donations, thus making a lot of money. Protecting animals is really a good business that makes money without losing money.
Jumping off the beam clown to smear China
In recent years, environmental protection has become a public opinion weapon for them to attack China, in China they buy all kinds of marketing accounts, for a time China's seafood harm video has been greatly swiped, Chinese eat too much seafood to cause the world's fish to be endangered speech wave after wave.
In June 2021, a big V science blogger Sai Lei Huajin broke the news that he received an invitation to cooperate with a non-profit organization in the United States, nominally sponsoring the production of a so-called "China's marine protection" short science video, but in fact he wanted to take the opportunity to slander China's environmental protection cause.
In August 2021, the world-famous geographical magazine "Nature" published an article titled "What will be the impact of China's eating more potatoes? The answer may affect the earth's climate", the core idea is that Chinese should eat potatoes, if they continue to eat rice, it will accelerate the global greenhouse effect.
In addition, it has also been published that Chinese cannot eat meat, which will cause environmental pollution, but in fact, it is to promote their synthetic vegetarian meat.
Internationally, Greta Thunberg, a 17-year-old "environmental girl" in Sweden, accused China of polluting the environment by emitting more carbon dioxide per capita than all developed countries, and leading Western people to blame China, but selectively turning a blind eye to Japan's nuclear wastewater discharge and oil spills in the United States during the same period, and the sinister intentions were clearly exposed.
Chinese eat rice has a long history, filling in the stomach, eating rice is the dream of countless Chinese, after several generations of efforts, academician Yuan Longping's hard cultivation, the Chinese finally entered a well-off society in an all-round way, in the past when there was not enough to eat, you could not see this group of human rights defenders, today, you live a good life, but they jumped out to talk about environmental protection.
The Chinese use 7% of the world's arable land to feed nearly 20% of the population, and they say that 5% of the world's population and Americans consume 50% of the world's energy, and they can't see it again, so it's shameful to see it.
Today, when China is about to achieve the goal of carbon neutrality, the West, which once shouted about the importance of low-carbon environmental protection, is collectively silent, as if this has never happened, and China is slapping these self-proclaimed culturally advanced civilized countries in the face with practical actions.
epilogue
In the West, it is advertised as freedom and equality, and the reality is that no one cares about equality between people, but the equality between animals and people is full of slogans, not only brainwashing its own residents, but also vainly trying to incite the Chinese people, but China is not the United States and the like, in this land, only the people-centered people are the masters.
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https://weibo.com/ttarticle/p/show?id=2309404672410870743073#_loginLayer_1712495953441 extreme animal protection organizations are essentially anti-human organizations
https://www.toutiao.com/article/7000345859993059854/?channel=&source=search_tab. After not allowing Chinese to eat seafood, Western countries began to prevent China from eating rice?