or ll bean, or True Value, or anywhere. Just remember that in general. But especially when you eat at a Chinese restaurant. Or a Korean restaurant.

Huh? I think those are the most local and typically are US citizens... no?

Koreans eat dog meat. --a joke about that)
and another old joke involves Chinese restaurants serving cat meat to unsuspecting patrons. again, a joke, albeit with poetic license. So to sum it all up, next time you are eating at a Korean or Chinese restaurant think about the picture, not in terms of the perceived cruelty, but of what might be beneath that savory sauce.

Except with chickens battery farmed to the extent major supermarkets can sell them for £2.50 for a whole bird, who would bother to run after kitties?

If you want to worry about what you eat, think about all the male chicks that hatch in the egg producing "industry" and are diverted down the conveyor belt into the high speed grinder. 72 hours old. Live. Every day. Bri - don't search on YouTube.

I'm not taking the moral high ground here. Eating only free-range eggs/ chicken doesn't absolve me of guilt.

and the truly amazing thing...
 

The link still works, and is current during this Burning Man.

( I know, it's an old post that I'm bumping to the top...I'm bored..)

Fine. See if I ever make a joke again.

When I first moved to China, I was somewhat horrified to see a couple of security guards getting their kicks slowly burning a live rat in a cage-trap over a small fire. Kind of giggling as they moved the rat in and out of the fire.

Sorry to say I am no longer surprised at that sort of thing.

My time spent in Asia taught me that Asian culture is alien to western culture. I'm sure there are things we do here that make asians sick also. Who's to judge which culture is right or wrong?

By the way they treat their people.

WTF is in the sky at 0:28, 0:31, and 1:03? Some sort of Hindu deity?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nataraja
Probably makes sense in the context of the film, undoubtedly the story line relates to a broader concept. From what I have seen (at a distance) of the culture, its spiritual dimension, gods and all, is alive and well.

http://www.dollsofindia.com/dollsofi...aja-PT70_l.jpg

Weird, Old Ads
 

For the life of me I cannot find the link to where I found these, they had several more that weren't quite as weird.

1st: Thorazine; 2nd: Pakistan Int'l Airlines (prophetic, don't you think?); 3rd: No f'ing clue.

Chinese Wal-Mart
 

These may be elsewhere in the Cellar...

Momdigr got an email with a bunch of these pics from a Chinese Wal-Mart. I don't know how accurate they are but they are wtf. Here are a few of the pics: