SOURCE: http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapc....ap/index.html

hm. I was about to ask if they ate them....

One problem in China is their sanitary problems. They eat practically anything that walks on the ground and feed their livestock scraps of whatever. Their contact with wild or stray animals are frequent, too. Most of their diseases(like SARS) could've been prevented if they'd just watch what they're eating and feeding. The majority os sicknesses come from animals in the first place.

Killing those dogs is probably a quick way to deal with the problem for now. Many uneducated people would still we handling those dogs.

ITs horrible that the Gov't doesn't try to give out vaccinations to the rabies disease, but they kill so many dogs.

OH and oxy, that is kindof a bad stereotype that China eats what ever walks on the ground. Sure they eat lots of stuff you don't, but that doesn't mean its unhealthy. Plus, i like Chinese food and i never got sick from it.

Not in the big cities, but in the rural areas where development hasn't reached yet. Disease almost always start from rural areas. Education is better in well developed cities, where people are less likely to do weird things. I didn't mean the entire country, just the less educated.

on an added note, Chinese food in China and chinese food in America is totally different. heck, depending on what province you're talking about, Chinese food varies throughout China entirely.

Well i have been to China and ate the food there too. And i still don't think that they eat what ever walks, or else like what you would have said, they would've eaten the dogs. But i do believe some Koreans eat dogs.

I really do not see the need for them to kill 50,000 dogs because of rabies...they do have a vaccine for it.

the idea was to get rid of a rabies problem. why wouldn't they kill the dogs? it's not like it wasn't for a reason.

Testing on the dogs would be a lot smarter, instead of just killing 50,000 random dogs.

That is ****in ridiculous. Why not just put them down like normal people does: capture them, test for the disease, if positive, put them to sleep with an injection.

Beating them on the streets takes more time, more work, creates a dreadful scene for people, and oh, dogs can feel pain too.

do you understand how much time, money, effort it would take to take 50,000 dogs, test them for rabies, and then inject them with the chemical needed to "put them to sleep". those chemicals aren't cheap. although beating them is gruesome your idea is simply not an option.