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An article entitled The killing fields appeared in the Sunday Morning Post (Hong Kong) on 7 August 2005. The article refers to practices used to produce furs from racoon dogs, foxes, spotted mountain cats and rabbits. Within the four-page article, the following comments are made: Wu Zhenyu, 55, describes the trade that draws him 2,000 km from his home in Liaoning to a town where he spends two months at a time selling furs. We waituntil the coldest part of winter, when their fur is at its thickest, to kill the foxes, he says. you kill them, the important thing is to make sure you dont damage the fur. Some farmers kill them by electrocution, but many others beat the fox to death with a bamboo stick. Asked if he thinks beating the animals is cruel, he laughs and shrugs. People murder each other all the time. Isnt that cruel? ... For fur lovers it is a cut-price paradise. For animal welfare groups alarmed at Chinas rapidly expanding fur trade, it is a nightmare ... Buoyed by the revival of fur in the fashion industry in recent years, the Chinese mainland is, according to estimates by business experts, manufacturing up to 80 per cent of the fur coats sold around the world ... China is the fastest growing fur exporter in the world, but it is not just the scale of the fur trade on the mainland that concerns animal welfare groups such as Peta (People for Ethical Treatment of Animals) and Animals Asia, they are also alarmed at the lack of regulations and the cruelty the trade involves ... Female foxes are confined in small, stinking coops with litters of cubs and fed twice a day on bowls of grey slop. Nearby, racoon dogs and silver foxes show signs of severe distress, ramming their heads and trunks repeatedly against the crude wire than encloses them from birth until about four months old, when they are killed for their fur. In one cage a young fox stands protectively over the body of a month-old cub lying lifeless, its paws covered in flies dangling through the bottom of the cage ... Buy a jacket labelled Made in Italy and its rabbit fur lining may have started as an 18 yuan pelt in Chongfu ... Our fur goes everywhere in the world, says Tan, tucking into a bowl of steamed rabbit meat, a bountiful dish in Guanhu thanks to him. We cant keep up with this demand. We are very happy about this ... Peta and other animal welfare groups hope the approach of the 2008 Beijing Olympics will turn the eyes of the world on every aspect of Chinese life and encourage the government to introduce effective legislation to ensure animals are humanely treated. In the first campaign of its kind in China, Peta this year launched a Pamela Anderson poster offensive in Shanghais underground train stations to try to dissuade wealthy women from wearing fur. The campaign showed the Baywatch star, one of the best-known western female faces on the mainland, baring a naked back to the camera with the slogan: Give fur the cold shoulder. ... A lot of cruelty is effectively being outsourced to China. We shouldnt go down the path to encourage it or to make it less cruel. We should try to end it, Smillie (education director for Hong Kong-based Animals Asia) says. Why should we regulate it and give them a slightly bigger cage or better access to water?. The animals dont have a semblance of a normal life. Even if you bring in regulations, who is going to check on them?

Question 1: 1-From a stakeholder theory perspective explain whether the animal welfare groups in China are likely to affect the practices of the fur traders.

2-Consider media agenda setting theory to explain whether you think that the prominent four-page article appearing in the major Hong Kong newspaper could impact on the views of Hong Kong residents?