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  • 2012-04-04 (xsd:date)
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  • Are Turtles Used on Chinese Souvenir Keyrings? (en)
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  • February 2012 saw the circulation of this item decrying the encasement of live turtles, fish, and salamanders in plastic bags of colored water and sold as souvenir keyrings in China, exhorting readers to urge the media to pick up this news and help put a stop to a form of animal cruelty. Although it's difficult to gauge how widespread or pervasive this practice might be in China, a few western news articles have made mention of it in recent years. The UK's Sun tabloid, for example, carried a brief item about goldfish key fobs being sold as souvenirs during the run-up to the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing: In April 2011, a Dubai news source briefly referenced an Asian report on the phenomenon: That same month, the New Zealand Herald also referenced a Chinese news report about the live animal key rings: The web site of Phoenix radio station KTAR echoed the other news reports in noting that the bagged fish and turtles sold as key fobs would soon die if not released from their packaging, and that China lacks animal protection laws restricting such practices: (en)
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