COULD NANJING AND ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI BECOME BIOLOGICAL SISTER CITIES TOO?
Maybe, in the year 2009, it will be one of these wooden crates where another disease makes the jump to humans. Maybe a few weeks or months later, some young American child in St. Louis, Missouri will come down with a deadly new bug her businessman father brought back from a flight from Nanjing. What was Daddy doing in Nanjing? Perhaps he was on an economic exchange with other St. Louis businesspeople to celebrate St. Louis’ 30 years of Sister City status status with Nanjing. Maybe he ate at the wrong restaurant at the wrong time. Maybe everyone in his delegation ate at the wrong restaurant at the wrong time. WHAT CAN BE DONE? CHANGE STRATEGY… I have a suggestion: Instead of emailing petitions for animal welfare laws into the blackhole of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, or the central government, why not appeal to the health and scientific communities inside and outside China. So, why not change the strategy a bit: Send letters of protest against cruelty — and for animal welfare laws –
