Serious Wednesday!

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

I call this post "Serious Wednesday" because I want to touch on something that's near and dear to my heart.

Yesterday, I was watching BBC Canada World News which covers in depth international news which doesn't get a lot of coverage here in Canada.

If you've been following my blog you know I feel passionate about animal cruelty.  I've talked about illegal shark hunting that's going on to get their fins which in turn are sold to Chinese nationalists for their shark fin soup.  These poor fish are slaughtered by the thousands for "soup".  Sound ridiculous?  Well it's a profitable business.  The Asian market lures poverty-stricken fishermen to butcher these fish promising a huge payout.  They keep ther hands clean and take little risk.

I watched a documentary  showing the capture of sharks and how their fins are savagely chopped off while they are alive and then the carcass is kicked overboard.  Very humane don't you think?

Well it's not just sharks.

I watched coverage on the BBC Canada network on how ivory is still in great demand and once again the Chinese are paying huge amounts of money to poachers in Kenya and Nigeria for their "tusks".  The poachers just want to survive and do it for the money.  The lure of the dollar is too great to say no.  The ivory is used to make jewellery and carvings not food or other necessities of life.

Do you know how they get the tusks from the elephants?  They cut off the face in order to get them and leave the carcass to rot in the blazing heat.  Nice, eh?

It's time we held people accountable for their actions.  I use the term "people" loosely because these are not people but souless creatures with too much money to spend.

Of course nothing is done because China invests a lot of money in a lot of projects worldwide.  Heaven forbid we upset them. 

If I sound angry and upset well I am.  In society today we are so concerned about being "politically corrrect" and not "rocking the boat" because of the fear we may upset international relations that we have have lost all common sense. 

If nothing is done and we turn a blind eye, certain wildlife species will become extinct. 

Let's not lose "our souls" in the process.

Ciao