"Ifyousayallsentient beingswillbenefit," saidthe farmer, "mywifemay be very weak and others will take advantage of her, gettingthe benefitsheshould have."
Like many of China's impoverished elderly, she is a former farmer, too old to benefit from the booming economy that has swept the younger generation into China's factories, and passed over by a benefit system that is skewed in favor of urbanites.