Don’t Buy Chinese Products
I once created a post on my blog at the Catholic company I work for, in effect declaring how silly people are who refuse to buy Chinese made religious goods, reasoning that when we purchase Chinese products, we are supporting people who would otherwise have no income. Asserting we are not supporting the regime when we purchase Chinese products. I also rationalized that the Vatican knows the plight of the underground Chinese Catholics, and is working diplomatically to ensure their freedom. (How effective has that been?) I was wrong.
On the news today, the promotion of fashion with fur trim or lining on winter coats, marketed by Saks, Macy’s, Bloomingdale’s, Target, etc. as fake fur, is actually dog and cat fur. Okay. Whatever. We in the West raise animals for their fur, and we use it. What we did not realize about China is the way in which these people take the fur.
The animals are skinned alive. In one video, the dog being skinned is licking the attacker’s hand begging for mercy - while the man is skinning the dog. Supposedly, the fur is a better quality if it is removed while the animal is alive.
I was so outraged, I wished the entire nation of China to be consumed in a holocaust. I hoped the people perpetrating this cruelty would go straight to hell when they died. Yet one less emotional may argue, these are just dogs and cats.
Sadly, this is what it took for me to acknowledge a nation which harvests organs from prisoners to sell throughout the world for transplants - killing the victim in the process - is in actuality a ruthless, evil regime. China is a nation wherein there is no morality whatsoever. To a white boy such as myself - it’s been a reality I consciously ignored. At times, I assumed a mental reservation, rationalizing that because they are so culturally foreign, I more or less accepted that they were a completely different humanity, if you will.
Shocking? It is difficult for me to admit it. Nevertheless, that’s what many of us in the West must have thought when we viewed reports of the genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, or elsewhere. How else could we have ignored those events? These people just didn’t look like us, their villages do not remotely resemble our neighborhoods - they are primitive, the people are ”natives” - it’s almost as if they are not as human because they are not socialized as we are. Of course that is a false notion, yet I believe it’s the way Western people sometimes think.
Hopefully, we change our minds after we process the information, if indeed we allow ourselves to process it at all. Nevertheless, I think it is oftentimes our gut reaction. It’s our defense mechanism against the pain of acknowledging senseless suffering, as well as the brutality of human nature.
Sadly, this is the materialistic, consumer driven Western culture we live in; it is the status quo, and we are the market for this inhumanity. We selfishly demand -the immoral and ignorant supply.
The entire world contracepts and/or aborts human babies, and the entire world will soon euthanize the elderly just as generously, along with the insane and the disabled, so why care about the animals?
Jeffrey Dahmer and other serial killers once tortured and killed animals for fun - then they moved on to people. A world that can kill unborn children, a nation which harvests organs for profit from living persons, while it skins animals alive to satisfy human vanity and greed, is a world ready to exterminate anyone - in whatever manner that is efficient and utilitarian, best suiting the market economy.
And we support this when we buy Chinese products.
