Hong Kong will see the opening of Disneyland on September 12, 2005. The house of the mouse will bring what is left of the original Walt Disney legacy- respect for animals. Bambi, the 1942 movie, was the premier animation film that sent that message in a raw but poetic form of the hunter and the hunted from the hunted's prospective. " Man is in the forrest", said Bambi's mother. In China and Hong Kong it is hard to see the forrest for all those Chinese get in the way. There are 1000 Pandas in the wild and 1.25 billion Chinese. That ratio tells the whole story. Now with the industrial revolution moving to their neighborhood, the appetites of their ancient ids ( primal instincts ) want the delicacies of animal parts of endangered species.
The live markets of animals in stuffed- full cages would make some lose an appetite but not so with some of the " eatabus anythingabus" Chinese. The Avian Flu could be the fowls political equivalent of the suicide bomber in the Middle East. The Chinese should shift to more vegetables in their diet if their race is to be more healthy.
The wisdom of Lao-Tzu and of Buddha which advocated harmony with one's surroundings has largely gone unheeded. Look at Three Gorges Dam. Can Mickey succeed? Let's hope that mouse power can turn this hoard around.
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