Posted on 06/16/2007 8:53:08 PM PDT by JACKRUSSELL
With Australia and the USA banning all imports of Cat and dog fur from China, and the EU soon to ban the fur, it's most likely that Canada will become the new dumping ground for these cat and dog fur products. Richard Swain, the US Humane Society undercover investigator,and a former Maryland police officer, conducted an 18 month investigation into the slaughter of cats and dogs for their fur in China.
He told the press... "In China I have seen warehouses the size of football fields piled to the ceiling with dog and cat fur waiting to be exported to the West".
Other cat and dog skin products include "rawhide' chews" which are actually made from the hides of dogs.
These products of everywhere. At least three shops in Sault Ste. Marie have these products for sale. When contacted, the owners of these businesses had no idea that the cute toys, keychains and statues were made from real cat and dog fur.
When they purchase these items for their shops, they are shown a certificate that states that the products are made from "goat and rabbit fur, by-products of China's food industry".
These certificates are fraudulent.
Identical toys, bought in Holland, were tested for DNA by the Academic Medical Centre of Amsterdam. Results proved conclusively that they were made of dog hair.
China is notorious for deceitful labelling of ingredients. Toothpaste, cough syrup, cat and dog food...the list goes on.
Currently , there is a wonderful woman on the east coast who is having DNA testing done on many of these products to prove to government officials that this trade exists and is in fact widespread over Canada.
Another concern is the fact that these products contain high levels of chromium, a tanning chemical.
When Austrailia did toxicity tests on these products, it was discovered tht the levels of chromium in these cute cat and dog products far exceded the safety levels.
The manufacterers and distributors get away with it becuase they are not sold as "toys" , but rather, decorative items.
Tell that to children. With many of these toys saying things like "I love you" , barking or meowing they are very appealing to young children, who more than likely would like nothing better than to play and cuddle with them.
So what is our government doing about it ??? NOTHING.
Letters to Trade Minister David Emerson are answered saying that Canada does not want to put any restricitons on the import of any kind of fur as it may hurt our exporting of seal fur.
And what of safety concerns? Well we'll have the answer to that one too. the same woman paying out of her own pocket to have DNA tests done, is also having the products tested for chromium levels.
Most people have no idea that this fur even exists in our country. They are shocked when they learn about it; and most people are appalled that the chew sticks they give their canine friends may indeed be dog skin, contaminated with who- knows-how -many toxic chemicals.
Avoid these products. Don't buy anything for your pet from China. Cat toys, chew sticks, furry mice. They at least could be made from cats and dogs, at worst they probably contain harmful chemicals. As for the furry figurines, don't buy them for your children. The chemicals in them could be harmful to your child.
For some reason it appears that these imports from China are not subject to the same rigorous safety testing as our home grown products.
Please don't buy these products. If you do you are contributing to the slaughter of cats and dogs, killed soley for their fur.
If you get enough countries to stop importing a product, the country that is exporting said product will say “Well this country and that country have stopped importing this product from us. Maybe we might want to ask them why, or look into it ourselves.”
We should just screw China anyway, keep them from buying more missiles.
I'm sure that as long as they own so much of our debt we will be tolerating their bad business practices for a long time. Have you noticed the stampede our legislators have made to try to rectify this? Me neither.
Logged and noted
Thanks
I’ll never buy products from China...minus this computer, that thermal coffee cup I had to have, our food, our catfood....
Who cares about the fur. My question is what are they doing with the meat? LOL
One of those "meat byproducts" on the label? Dog, the other red meat! Blackbird.
Please send me a FReepmail to get on or off this Canada ping list.
Thanks for the heads up on the chews
I was wondering why my cats had little interest in a recent set of new toys, thanks for the info.
Obviously China is preparing us for an invasion, slowly but surely Chinese will replace Americans.
Right on.
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Thanks for the ping mom.
Thanks for the info. Doing my very best to avoid products from China.
“They get a lot of milage from cats. They eat them and then sell their fur.. incredible”
The Native Americans got a lot of mileage from the animals they killed. Ate them, wore them, used the skins for housing, moccasins, decorations. etc.
That being said, I’m still squeemish about using pets in such a fashion.
We are starting a cat ranch and taking one hundred thousand cats
Each cat will have twelve kittens a year
The catskins will sell for thirty cents each
One hundred men could skin five thousand cats a day
We could be dealing a profit of over ten thousand dollars
But what should we feed the cats?
We will start a rat ranch next door with a million rats
The rats will breed twelve times faster than the cats
So we can have more rats to feed each day for each cat
But what should we feed the rats?
We will feed the rats
The carcases of the cats
After they have been skinned
Now get this!
We feed the rats to the cats and the cats to the rats
And get the catskins for nothing
We feed the rats to the cats and the cats to the rats
And get the catskins for nothing
We feed the rats to the cats and the cats to the rats
And get the catskins for nothing
We feed the rats the carcases of the cats
After they have been skinned
We feed the rats to the cats and the cats to the rats
And get the catskins for nothing
Rats to the cats and the cats to the rats
And get the catskins for free!
- Husker Du
What on earth do we need cat and dog fur for??
“Who cares about the fur. My question is what are they doing with the meat? LOL”
“One of those “meat byproducts” on the label? Dog, the other red meat! Blackbird.”
It wouldn’t surprise me if the Chicoms sell ground-up political prisoners as meat, the filthy, disgusting, subhuman bastards.
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