Live animals sold as key rings in China

[kas125]

(CNN) -- Small fish, turtles and other amphibians are being sold in Beijing as mobile phone trinkets and key rings, to the chagrin of animal rights groups.

Kept in bags filled with colored, oxygenated water the animals cost around $1.50 each.

One vendor selling the animals outside of a Beijing subway station told CNN that the bag contained crystallized oxygen and nutrients.

She said that that the animals could live for days but also warned that they should be freed from the bag as soon as the air ran out or they would suffocate.

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This is just sickening!

[Electric Monk]

1. Did you know that disco record sales were up 400% for the year ending 1976? If these trends continue

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UC1MCsWrVSw/TGSZwshaf_I/AAAAAAAABCU/iXl3rPJSsFw/s1600/Disco+Stu.jpg

[alphafemale]

2. They're not even attractive or interesting looking.

They look like you are carrying around the goldfish in a plastic bag that you won for a quarter at the county fair.

[Kablooie]

3. Some restaurants in China also keep live animals in cages.

In Canton there were frogs, owls, monkeys, dogs, raccoons, kittens, and other animals in tiny filthy cages.
All were kept to prepare for dinner.

it was hard to see.