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Posted (six) in (Asia, Sick food, animals) on July-18-2009 (14) Comments  Read More

There has been so much controversy over the too sick practice of eating dogs. Talk about some sick food.

Some countries like the Philippines have outlawed the practice and made dog meat illegal (too bad no one enforces it)

This is just wrong, the sick video below shows the treatment of the dogs before being slaughtered. Sick Shit for sure. Many of them are totally abused and beaten before being sliced and diced into soup. In one of these videos, the fool hangs the poor tortured dog. WTF?

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Posted (six) in (Asia, Extreme Weather, disasters) on December-31-2008 (3) Comments  Read More

Sick Shit seems to happen every year and 2008 is no exception.

We saw some sick natural disasters in 2008…  floods, fires, earthquakes, cyclones, tsunamis and tornadoes all around the world. At this year end, looks like hundreds of thousands of people have lost their lives to mother nature’s supreme power
The Just Sick Shit year end of 2008, Disaster list, month by month

January 2008 Disasters

January saw three major disasters around the world,
Starting on New Years and going for 4 days Kenya saw riots that burned down homes, businesses, farms and killed an estimated 300 people in the riot. The riots began over a presidential election where Mwai Kibaki (Kikuyu) defeats Raila Odinga (Luo) sending the two Luo and Kikuyu tribes into a tribal battle for 5 days of new years violence.
from the U.S department of State

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Protesters run away as riot police chase them in Kibera slums, Saturday, Jan. 5, 2008, as a government statement said Saturday that Kenya’s President Mwai Kibaki is ready to form “a government of national unity” to help resolve disputed elections that caused deadly riots. Some 300 people have been killed and around 100,000 made homeless in violent clashes since the recent presidential vote, bringing chaos to this east African nation, and ethnic divisions pitting some tribes against President Mwai Kibaki’s Kikuyu people.

January 7 & 8 US: Tornadoes caused by record-breaking temperatures kill at least six people, including two children, destroy houses, and flood roads.

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Jan. 28 - China: 78 million people are affected by severe snow storms and bad weather leaving over 800,000 people evacuated, millions without power, 600, 000 train passengers stranded and 2 dozen dead. This disaster is expensive for China costing an estimated 3.2 billion dollars.

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January to Spring Brazil: Brazil starts a fever outbreak that will last for months. By April, more hospitals are opened and people begin education for curbing the mosquito driven dengue fever that has now infected over 75,000 people and by April, killed at least 80. January saw the start on the dangue fever epidemic.

February 2008 Disasters

The disasters just kept going through February…
Feb. 3- Rep. of the Congo: at least 45 people are killed and about 450 more injured after two earthquakes, a 6.0 and a 5.0.

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Feb. 5 U.S South.: at least 55 people are killed and hundreds more injured after violent tornadoes rip through the southern United States. According to emergency officials, the victims include 31 people in Tennessee, 13 in Arkansas, 7 in Kentucky, and 3 in Alabama.

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Feb. 7 - U.S.: an explosion at an Imperial Sugar Refinery near Savannah, Georgia kills 14 people and injures many more.
Feb. 21, Venezuela: A airplane from Venezuela crashes into the Andean Mountain - killing all 46 people aboard.

March 2008 Disasters

March 14 - US: Georgia is hit by another disaster, this time it’s bad weather and tornadoes rip through the southern state. 2 people are killed and at least 30 people are injured in Atlanta and northwestern counties of Georgia including Polk County and Floyd County. The tornadoes bring down many large centers including the CNN one and cause millions in damage.
March 17-US: Flooding and bad weather affect states from Pennsylvania to Texas causing road closures, evacuations and the deaths of 13 people.

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April 2008 Disasters

April 29, US: Tornadoes in Virginia cover 3 counties, destroy communities and injure many

May 2008 Disasters

May saw 2 of the worst natural disasters of the decade and left over 150,000 casualties, billions in damage, millions homeless and the entire world trying to help.
May 3 - Myanmar: One of the worst natural disasters of the decade hits, Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar. Death and destruction follow leaving millions homeless and an astounding estimated 78,000 people dead or missing. Most of the deaths were caused by water and the huge tidal waves that flooded the land and ripped structures apart.

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May 11- US.: 20 people die and many left homeless in southern states because of tornadoes
May 12 - China: A 7.9 earthquake strikes China killing over 67,000 people die and leaving hundreds of thousands more injured. Following the earthquake were more natural disasters in the form of floods and landslides that killed, injured and left many more people trapped.

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June 2008 Disasters

June 9- US.: Central states see severe weather and record flooding, 10 people die as the Cedar river rises 17 feet, the highest recorded, and floods Cedar Rapids breaking dams and causing thousands of evacuations.

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June 11 -US: In Iowa a tornado kills four Boy Scouts and injures 48 people

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June 17 - southern China: the worst flooding in 50 years kills over 60 people, destroys 5.4 million acres of crops, causes landslides, and leaves 13 people missing in nine southern Chinese provinces.

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June 21 - Philippines: Typhoon Fengshen crosses the Princess of the Stars, killing most of the 865 passengers and crew. There are 59 known survivors. Almost 500 other people die during the storm.

July 2008 Disasters

July 24 - Japan: 6.8 magnitude earthquake strikes many miles below the earth’s surface in the region of Iwate.
July 27 - Ukraine: 18 people die during 5 days of very heavy rain inthe Ukraine and Romania,

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August 2008 Disasters

Aug. 1- Pakistan: a large mass of ice breaks on K2, the world’s second-highest mountain, causing an avalanche that kills 11 climbers.

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Aug. 4 - Himachal Pradesh: almost 150 people die in a stampede during a festival celebrating the Hindu mother goddess at Naina Devi temple in northern India. A rumor of a landslide is said to have started the stampede
Aug. 20 - Spain: Over 150 people die when a 160-person passenger plane skids off the runway and explodes while trying to take off at the Barajas airport in Madrid.
Aug. 23 - U.S.: 12 people die, many more are injured and left homeless as Tropical storm Faye hits Florida and other southern states.
Aug. 28 - India: Kosi River floods killing 75 and leaving millions homeless or living in camps.
Aug. 28 - Cuba: Over 130 people die and many more are injured when Hurricane Gustav makes landfall in the Caribbean.

September 2008 Disasters

Sept. 1 - U.S. Gulf Coast: Hurricane Gustav back at work leaving Cuba and now hitting the U.S. Hurricane Gustav devastates the Gulf Coast, kills at least 26 people in Louisiana, Georgia, and Mississippi.
Sept. 5 - Haiti: Tropical Storm Hanna strikes Haiti, killing hundreds of people and injuring thousands.
Sept. 7 - Cuba: Cuba and the islands just got hit with one storm a few weeks back and now they face Hurricane Ike which kills over 60 people in Haiti, 4 more are killed in Cuba, and 80% of homes are destroyed on Turks and Caicos islands.

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Sept. 12 - U.S. California: Metrolink commuter train collides with a freight train northwest of Los Angeles, killing 25 passengers.

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Sept. 13 - US: Hurricane Ike hits Texas and causes more deaths, evacuations and loss of power, Hurricane Ike travels inland causing severe flooding and power outages in parts of Louisiana, Kansas, Missouri, and Illinois. 17 more people die due to Ike.

hurricane ike devastation

Sept. 30 - India: Another religious stampede and a collapsed wall kill over 100 people during the Navratra religious festival. Those Indian religious festivals are starting to look dangerous

india stampede religious temple

October 2008 Disasters

Oct. 6 - Kyrgyzstan: 6.6 magnitude earthquake levels the town of Nura. 70 people die, hundreds more are injured.
Oct. 29 - Pakistan: 6.4 magnitude earthquake hits southwestern Pakistan, killing at least 170 people and destroying around 15,000 homes.

pakistan earthquake

November 2008 Disasters

Nov. 7 - Haiti: School collapses killing 90 students.
Nov. 9 - Sea of Japan: A new Russian nuclear sub has an accident.  20 people die and 21 more are injured when two compartments flood with Freon gas during tests in the Sea of Japan.
Nov. 15 - U.S.: California wild fires

california wildfires 2008

Nov. 22 - Brazil: Brazil is hit again by bad weather and 119 people die and over 80,000 homes are destroyed during heavy rains and flooding.

December 2008 Disasters

Dec. 11-  U.S.: The New England states see tons of ice and snow during storms.  Many power lines are effected, hundreds of thousands left without power causing President Bush to declare a state of emergency in parts of Massachusetts and New Hampshire, getting FEMA to come in with help.

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Posted (six) in (Asia, Sick food, sickos) on August-1-2008 (16) Comments  Read More

I guess I have been on a sick food trip lately… so here is some more sick ass food - barbecued dog, YUMMY! ahhh… NOT! These fools are a bit twisted.

I Understand the argument that people eat animals and that dogs are just another animal, however I do not sleep with a cow in my bed nor would I trust a chicken to safe guard my home. My child does not play fetch with a fish nor would that same fish attack anyone that threatened him like my dog would.

The dog is my kids best friend and when he was a toddler, the dog never let him out of his sight. The dog is part of the family and hurting such a loyal and trusting animal willfully is beyond our comprehension. Killing the dog and eating him is unthinkable and far too grotesque for even the worst of nightmares. Sick food for sure

This is a pic from a Korean protest against the dog meat market

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Some years back, a neighborhood Korean restaurant got busted. They were kidnapping dogs from yards and serving them up as chicken. The dozens of missing pets and the matching heads in the dumpster behind the “eatery” did them in. They got busted for animal cruelty, the doggy eatery got closed down and the pet executioners got fined.

The newspapers wrote that due to cultural differences, they believed dogs were fair game and did nothing wrong. It seems chicken got to expensive and dog was free (stolen). Needless to say, they got closed down and each person who ever ate there probably puked and now stays far away from Korean cuisine.

Korea, Vietnam, China and other Asian country’s do have doggies on the menu and I gotta say, it doesn’t look very appetizing, actually, its some sick shit!

There is something very sick with eating “man’s best friend” and sadly, the dogs are not killed in any way that would be considered humane. Many are beaten to death, bludgeoned or stabbed. If they are used as sick food, there should be a better way to raise and slaughter the animals. PETA would have a field day out there, but I doubt PETA has an Asian Chapter.

This image is from a site called artfreaks and the description really pulls at my heart strings. Talk about some sick and twisted shit.

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Outrageous. Shocking. And very sad indeed… This poor dog met a very unhappy end to its no doubt miserable life. The eyes are stricken with terror and pain - the mouth still snarling viciously, even after the poor creature has been roasted to a cinder.
Until I saw this, I could somehow never really believe that people actually eat dogs in the Philippines. And, to be fair, even now, I am sure that the percentage of the population that do so is pretty small.
I stumbled across this dog’s head on a barbecue when I was taking my neighbor’s dog for a walk around the back of a newly constructed house on the estate where I live. On enquiry, I found out from one of the construction workers that they had bought the dog when it was still alive, for 200 pesos - (about US$ $4.00 - slightly less than a day’s wages for a building laborer here.) The dog was, apparently, killed by being beaten to death and then knifed, in order to let the blood out.
Now, I have to admit, I do enjoy eating “balut” (duck embryos - they are very tasty and do wonders for the libido!)
But this is one item on the menu here in the Philippines that I would dearly love to see removed forever…

I have never been to the Philippines, but the local cuisine makes me ill. This picture of the “home made muzzle” is horribly rotten. WTF?

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I found this story about an asian dog meat market from a site called… Chinasucks.com, go figure

Xichang, known as China’s “space city” and capital city of the Liangshan Yi Nationality Autonomous Prefecture in southwestern Sichuan Province, People’s Republic of China.

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These are pictures of a market area on an embankment above the river in the old part of town. At the front there are puppies and kittens for sale as pets and further back are about 100 dogs waiting to be selected by customers. When selected the vendor puts the dog in a sack and weighs it. After a price is agreed the purchaser kills his dog and butchers it (sometimes in that order, more often in the reverse order). Business was brisk with a dog being killed about ever 5 minutes. There seemed to be two techniques. The one man technique was to hit the dog twice on the head with a wooden plank which dazed it sufficiently to make it safe for him to plunge his knife into its jugular without getting bitten. He then held the dog up by the tail until it bled into unconsciousness - he would then proceed to butcher it with the dog coming in and out of consciousness. With the two man technique, one man held the dog up by her tail while the other pulled the neck back with a wire round the dog’s neck. The first man was then able to reach down, again without fear of being bitten, to sever the jugular vein. Since the dog was in no way stunned, she struggled and howled and urinated until passing out. The watching dogs were also shaking and howling. The dog was flung onto her back and the butchering began - consciousness returned on lying flat but she was too weak then to struggle much. One of the men laid down his knife and put his mouth to the inside of the dog’s hind leg.

article I found about the growth of the Chinese dog meat market

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Growth of the Chinese Dog-Meat Market

The Chinese market has emerged with the appearance of Saint Bernard breeders on the scene, and has proliferated, partly due to Government funding. Dog farms are currently springing up all over China, with industry ads boasting high rates of return, three times as profitable as poultry, and four times as profitable as raising pigs. Chinese dog farmers believe that in a few short years, dog farms will become as prolific as those raising sheep and cattle. In Peixian for example, 300,000 dogs are slaughtered annually. Some farms raise as many as 100,000 dogs a year, most for slaughter but some also for their fur. The animals are killed at about 6 months of age.

Dog vs. rice? I would so pick the rice.

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