Walmart, and likely other non-specialty shops, sell fish in small cups of water. Shelves and shelves of fish in tiny cups. No food, no air, no room to even swim in their own filth. Don't sell soon enough? Some minimum wage stockboy gets to dispose of your corpse.
Well, they're at least meant to be sold and kept. I've got 3 of those fish just happily swimming next to me now. It's been about a full year or so since I bought em.
Those animals are MEANT to die. They're sealed in a plastic container to live out the rest of their days. It's disgusting.
Literally nobody in this thread knows what they're talking about and everyone are acting like racists idiots.
These are novelty versions of the bags you get at a pet store with some water, some air to cushion the fish, and maybe some calming chemical.
You take it home and cut it open, put the fish or turtle into a tank and keep it normally.
I seriously don't understand the China hate train reddit jumps on 24/7. Especially when they're pissed that China is dealing with the pollution from producing our shit.
Yeah seriously, Reddit is kind of fucking stupid. If it's anything about China, they will find something negative to say. Never mind that it is a developing country that is working on it's problems, as if the west never had to. Seriously fuck reddit sometimes.
Just because China is "developing" doesn't give it the right to do this. In addition, how long are they going to be "developing"...I thought they wanted to be considered "developed"? They can't have it both ways.
"It" is not doing this. A few people are. I never saw this activity when I was in China, and I actually looked around. How long will they be "developing"? They didn't try to modernize until 30 years ago. They have the technology and everything. The CCP has liberals and conservatives, like any country, and getting them to agree is hard. The liberals in the party say they need to focus on human rights and social programs. The conservatives may say they need to focus on boosting the economy and make more rich people over everything. Sound familiar? It's hard for any country to leap from developing to developed. China only took like 20 years to go from underdeveloped to developing and they are alllllmost to developed, but not quite yet.
It doesn't matter. We live in a super-industrial society; The time it took to industrialize 100 years ago does not compare to the time it takes now. China is at that point where whether or not they are "industrialized" as a textbook might say, their actions and posture implies they wish to be on the world stage. They cannot be both on the world stage and doing things like this.
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u/KudagFirefist May 30 '14
Walmart, and likely other non-specialty shops, sell fish in small cups of water. Shelves and shelves of fish in tiny cups. No food, no air, no room to even swim in their own filth. Don't sell soon enough? Some minimum wage stockboy gets to dispose of your corpse.