This Suit Is Not Black: Pre-Olympic Competition in China

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Friday, February 9, 2007

Pre-Olympic Competition in China

A Chinese zoo is running a Big Brother style competition during which contestants have to live in a cage with monkeys. The province of Shaanxi, PETA will be happy to learn, is encouraging the project so that the six contestants can “experience the lack of freedom animals have.”

Excuse me, please. Lay around all day and have other people prepare all of your meals and clean up after you? That’s lack of freedom? Please…I’d like to see these apes be forced to wake up early only to unwillingly have to leave their cage for a place with four solid walls, re-circulated air and no windows, be timed for lunch, which they’ll provide for themselves, only to go home to go to sleep and wake up and do it all over again. And when they aren’t compensated enough, they still have to give part of their pay to the zoo keepers.

If you’re between the ages of 18 and 60, “in good psychological condition with animal protection and survival knowledge,” you may enter. And if you’re the last one standing you could leave with about $1500, which is almost certainly not worth it at all.

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