致正在北京叫卖海豹制品的加拿大渔业部长的公开信

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致加拿大海洋和渔业部长Gail Shea 的公开信

Shea部长：

我们是遍布在中国大陆各地的关爱动物的人士，人数有好几百万人，而且在日益扩大。关爱弱小、爱惜生命、追求人与自然的和谐，是当今世界的浩荡潮流。我们作为这个潮流里的一成员，感到无上光荣。你的到来、你带领的加拿大代表团第二次来中国推销残暴的海豹产品，遗憾地说是对中国现代化、中国精神文明的建设，起破坏和阻碍作用的。

中国有句古话，“己所不欲，勿施于人。”也就是说，自己都不要的东西，不要给他人。众所周知，加拿大的海豹产品，是用小海豹的血和肉、海豹妈妈的血和泪制造而成的。海豹产品因其残酷性而为大多数加拿大人和欧美其他国家的人民所唾弃，这种见不得人的产品怎么能推销到中国来？你去年今年奔波到中国来，来向中国消费者兜售这种见不得人的产品，你知道你犯了什么错吗？

首先，你卖命为加拿大海豹业到中国兜售海豹产品，说明你认同海豹业者对中国人民的种族主义、文化帝国主义偏见。什么“中国人什么都吃”和中国人不关心动物死活的说法，说明加拿大海豹业者对中国人民存在落伍的、西方强暴非西方国家时的藐视非西方国家和民族的偏见。中国自古就有关爱生灵、怜悯动物的博爱情怀。当代中国在动物保护上的进步，更是各方有目共睹的。加拿大海豹业者有什么资格和理由认为中国人是麻木不仁的民族？Shea部长，你又有什么理由认为中国的消费者会拥抱海豹制品这类不道德和不体面的产品？

其次，认为中国人民会认同海豹产品，说明加拿大政府和海豹业者思想有多落伍、对中国的进步有多么的无知。世界各国都在密切关注中国社会的各种积极变化，以便能够及时掌握有关中国的最新资讯。对中国巨变的视而不见，是加拿大傲慢的表现。中国改革开放以来，民众对环保和动物保护的关注，与日俱增。民众的消费态度日益反映社会的环保意识。加拿大政府和海豹产业无视中国人民环保意识的提高，硬是要把破坏生态、残暴海豹幼仔的产品卖到中国来，不是一个尊重消费者的理智行为。

第三，Shea的行为，在消灭中国人民心中原有的对加拿大的良好印象。加拿大是西方大国中较早承认中华人民共和国的国家。加拿大人白求恩大夫，不远万里来到中国，帮助二战时的中国。他故事在中国时家喻户晓。大山（Mark Roswell）, 更是亿万中国人都知道的加拿大人。这两个加拿大人，拉近了他们的祖国和中国的关系。加拿大海豹业，正在对加拿大在华的形象造成重大且难于弥补的损失。大家只要到中国最大的腾讯网 （[url=http://news.qq.com/photon/tpyk/haibao.htm]http://news.qq.com/photon/tpyk/haibao.htm[/url]）上去读读两万多读者对加拿大海豹业的评论，就会知道Shea部长所支持的海豹产业正在给加拿大造成多大的伤害。

第四，对中国来说，加拿大的海豹产品就像是大英帝国19世纪初倾销到中国的鸦片，不仅鼓励不负责任的消费行为，而且能够起到毒害年轻消费者的作用。英帝国卖到中国的罪恶的鸦片，腐蚀了中国消费者的肉体。加拿大的海豹产品，宣扬对弱者施加暴力、推崇对残暴的冷漠，贻害的是中国消费者的灵魂。作为西方发达的国家，加拿大理应帮助中国推进文明建设。向中国推销海豹产品，是破坏中国文明建设的举动。西方发达国家应该是文明的使者，不能做文明的绊脚石。我们会抵制加拿大海豹产品这个当代的“鸦片。”

第五，目前在中国地区出售的海豹产品介绍，存在许多不实和误导消费者的内容。海豹油和海狗油的品质以及它们声称的功效，科学根据在哪里？有些海豹油产品甚至是为婴儿生产的。这些产品的副作用有哪些？外敷的这类产品，万一通过口腔食入体内，对幼儿会造成什么样的后果，有没有进行过严格的审查？海豹油从受到污染的海豹脂肪上提取，销售到中国的海豹油里面有多少有害残存？ 加拿大要随时准备承担伪劣产品可能造成的一切损失。

Shea部长及加拿大政府，将海豹产品推销到中国大陆是不明智、短视和得不偿失的。这类产品残害无助的海豹幼仔、破坏中国的现代化建设、毒害中国消费者、损坏加拿大在中国的形象。向中国推销海豹产品，损人又不利己。加拿大难道要学当年的英帝国吗？

爱我中华、关爱生命的同仁

                                                  2011年1月12日 北京

An Open Letter to Gail Shea, Canada’s Fisheries Minister

Minister Shea:

We are animal loving citizens from across China. We are in the millions in number and are growing by day. Care for the weak, love of life, and striving for the harmony between humans and nature are the unstopped trend of the contemporary time. Living in this era, we feel proud to follow this trend. Yet, your arrival in China and the Canadian delegation you are leading, the second of its kind since last year, for promoting Canadian seal product sale in China, are nothing but an act  hindering China’s progress in modernization and civilization.

“Do not give others what you yourself do not want” is an ancient Chinese saying.  Known to all, Canadian seal products are made out of the blood and flesh of the seal pups and out of the blood and tears of the mother seals.  The cruelty of seal products has been condemned by the majority of Canadians and others in Europe and the Americas. How can you peddle this shameful product to China? You have come to China two years in a row to promote the morally repulsive products. Do you, Minister Shea,  realize what kind of wrongs you are committing?

First of all, going out of your way to promote Canadian seal products is indicative of your position supporting the racist and cultural imperialistic bias held by the sealing industry towards the Chinese people. The perceptions that “Chinese eat everything” and that Chinese care nothing about animal suffering show how outdated the Canadian sealing industry’s view of the Chinese people is, a view that is reminiscent of the prejudice against non-Western people and non-Western culture held by the West when it was brutalizing the non-Western world in the old days. China has a legacy of compassion for all living creatures. Progress in animal protection in the contemporary era has also been recognized. Based on what can the Canadian sealing industry claim that the Chinese nation is indifferent to animal suffering? Minister Shea, what makes you the advocate of seal product sale in China, products that are hugely controversial and morally indefensible?

Second, the view that Chinese consumers will embrace products of animal cruelty indicates Canada’s sad out-of-touch with reality in China. The world is watching every new development in China in order to be on the same page with its breathtaking transformation.  Refusing to face reality in China is a sign of arrogance on the part of the Canadian government, an attitude of the old colonial powers in the 19th century. Since China initiated its economic reform program, the public environmental awareness has been rising. More and more consumers are consuming with a view to protect environment and the ecosystem. The Canadian government and sealing industry, by attempting to dump the seal products on the Chinese markets, show little respect to the Chinese consumers. Instead of encouraging new consumer culture in China, Canada’s seal product sale plan is trying to reverse that positive trend. Canada, you are standing on the wrong side of history.  

Third, by promoting seal products, Shea is helping Canada’s sealing industry to destroy the good image Canada has long enjoyed in China. Canada is one of the first Western nations that extended diplomatic recognition to the People’s Republic of China. Dr. Norman Beethune, a Canadian surgeon who worked in China during the Second World War, was a hero to the Chinese people. Mark Roswell, a Canadian student-turned comedian, is a celebrity in China. Both gentlemen have helped shorten the distance between China and Canada. Canadian sealing industry is undoing what Dr. Beethune and Mr. Roswell have accomplished. You only need to access China’s biggest online portal ([url=http://news.qq.com/photon/tpyk/haibao.htm]http://news.qq.com/photon/tpyk/haibao.htm[/url]) and read the more than 16,000 readers’ comments to realize how Canada’s image has been tarnished because of Canadian brutality against baby seals.

Fourth, Canadian seal products are no ordinary products. As morally indefensible commodities, seal products serve to encourage irresponsible and immoral consumer culture. Worse still, they can poison young consumers by desensitizing them to practice of inhumanity. Like narcotics that destroy the bodies of the users, seal products, a symbol of violence to the weak and of indifference to brutality, can distort the souls and destroy the spirit of the consumers.  As a developed Western democracy, Canada should help China’s progress in civilization. It has NO right to sabotage or block it by dumping morally objectionable products in the country.

Finally, descriptions of seal products sold in the Greater China Region are full of exaggerations and misleading information. What is the scientific basis of the claimed power of the seal oil products? Some seal oil products are made specifically for infants. What are the possible side-effects or consequences if the product is accidentally taken orally by the infant?  What is the residue level of harmful elements in the seal oil product, a level that is harmful to health?  Canada should be ready all time to take all responsibilities for any health consequences incurred by the shoddy seal products.

Listen, Minister Shea and Canadian government, promoting seal products to China is unwise, short-sighted and unworthy. Seal products brutalize defenseless seal pups, sabotage China’s modernization (in moral development), poison and harm Chinese consumers, and tarnish Canadian international image. Seal products harm China without even benefiting Canada.

Does Canada really want to impose morally repulsive products on the Chinese consumers?

Animal loving citizens of China

January 11, 2011




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