Glen Mills just forwarded this one:
Olympic nightmare: A red tide in the Yellow Sea
BEIJING: With less than six weeks before it plays host to the Olympic sailing regatta, the city of Qingdao has mobilized thousands of people and an armada of small boats to clean up an algae bloom that is choking large stretches of the coastline and threatening to impede the Olympic competition.
www.iht.com/.../china.php
Then there was this:
Olympics clean-up Chinese style: Inside Beijings shocking death camp for cats
Thousands of pet cats in Beijing are being abandoned by their owners and sent to die in secretive government pounds as China mounts an aggressive drive to clean up the capital in preparation for the Olympic Games.
www.dailymail.co.uk/.../Olympics-clean-Chinese-style-Inside-Beijings-shocking-death-camp-cats.html
This was early on, but it sounds like they will have as much as half the amount of cars on the road by banning all government workers from driving:
Olympians air a gripe about Beijing
March 12, 2008
Matt Reed was 1,500 meters into the last segment of the triathlon when he found himself gasping for oxygen. His legs were still pounding away at the pavement, his body pumped up after cruising through the swimming and cycling contests, but his lungs were shutting down.
The 32-year-old triathlete from Boulder, Colo., blames air pollution for triggering his asthma attack during the September track meet.
articles.latimes.com/.../fg-olyair12
This thread is getting way too political for me. In fact being a member of the Anti Feline Slaughter Party (AFS) for short, I find it very offensive that the other side gets any discussion.
athens had the same issues, they rounded up the stray dogs and cats who roam because the owners didn't fix them(they claim it is a cultural issue), and killed them. iwannafly, as far as euthanization in the US, don't get me on my soapbox about animal rights... it is a tragedy that people don't spay and neuter. noone here to my knowledge is culling or eatingcats. :rant3: i work as a translator /interpreter for olympic games and international sporting events, and did not work greece and would not step foot in china because of the animal and human rights issues:rant3::mad::soapbox::soapbox:
This thread is getting way too political for me. In fact being a member of the Anti Feline Slaughter Party (AFS) for short, I find it very offensive that the other side gets any discussion.
athens had the same issues, they rounded up the stray dogs and cats who roam because the owners didn't fix them(they claim it is a cultural issue), and killed them. iwannafly, as far as euthanization in the US, don't get me on my soapbox about animal rights... it is a tragedy that people don't spay and neuter. noone here to my knowledge is culling or eatingcats. :rant3: i work as a translator /interpreter for olympic games and international sporting events, and did not work greece and would not step foot in china because of the animal and human rights issues:rant3::mad::soapbox::soapbox:
