Animals through the World - Online since June 2003

Dear Friends,

Animal abusers always try to export their cruelties. When it is not bullfights it's rodeos. A rodeo was scheduled for Copenhagen, now another is scheduled for Hungary. If we don’t manage to stop this, one day they will spread all over Europe.

For the Animals
Maria Lopes
Coordinator

CHINA

Hong Kong's Brutal Purge of 40,000+ Pigs

Source:http://www.KinshipCircle.org

SOURCE OF INFORMATION:
Hong Kong Government Brutally Killing 40,000 Pigs
http://www.care2.com/news/member/653450313/350137
Hong Kong Government Contact Info:
http://www.info.gov.hk/eindex.htm
Hong Kong's Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Rules
CAP 169 PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ORDINANCE
CAP 169A PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS REGULATIONS
http://www.afcd.gov.hk/english/quarantine/qua_awc/qua_awc_leg/qua_awc_leg_pre/qua_awc_leg_pre.html

READ ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF PIG HORROR HERE:
http://www.animalearth.org/petition4/index.php

ALL EMAILS IN THIS ALERT:
mailbox@afcd.gov.hk,enquiries@fehd.gov.hk,enquiry@hwfb.gov.hk,
cso@cso.gov.hk,tcenq@edlb.gov.hk,bjohksar@bjo-hksarg.org.cn
info@cppcc.gov.cn,info@china.org.cn,english@mail.gov.cn,
govonline@chinascape.cn.net,webmaster@spp.gov.cn,
xhszbs@xinhuanet.com,wandi@china.org.cn,webmaster@china.org.cn,
english@npc.gov.cn,webmaster@mfa.gov.cn,emic@moe.edu.cn,
webmaster@agri.gov.cn,zxc@szhealth.gov.cn,manage@chsi.moh.gov.cn,
manage@moh.gov.cn,

szw@ccnt.gov.cn,chinaculture@chinadaily.com.cn,
xhzhang@cnta.gov.cn,webmaster@cnta.gov.cn,
jacques.rogge@ioc.olympic.org,2008@beijing-olympic.org.cn,
mishubu@beijing-olympic.org.cn,zongti@beijing-olympic.org.cn,
international@beijing-olympic.org.cn,sports@beijing-olympic.org.cn,
xuanchuan@beijing-olympic.org.cn,guihua@beijing-olympic.org.cn,
environment@beijing-olympic.org.cn,

marketing@beijing-olympic.org.cn,technology@beijing-olympic.org.cn,
legal@beijing-olympic.org.cn,gamesservices@beijing-olympic.org.cn,
jiancha@beijing-olympic.org.cn,renshi@beijing-olympic.org.cn,
caiwu@beijing-olympic.org.cn,wenhua@beijing-olympic.org.cn,
mediaoperations@beijing-olympic.org.cn,VEM@beijing-olympic.org.cn,
transport@beijing-olympic.org.cn,OTR@beijing-olympic.org.cn,
accreditation@beijing-olympic.org.cn

Honorable Government Officials:

As news of Hong Kong's mass pig extermination travels the globe, the public is outraged by accounts of shrieking animals left to die on floors soaked in blood and brain matter. In the government's rush to phase-out pig farming licenses, it has ordered the massacre of 40,000 or more breeder pigs.
Authorities assured farmers their surrendered pigs would be "humanely destroyed."

Instead, the government hopes to meet its year-end deadline with gunshot-style killing inside the New Territories North Animal Management
Centre of the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (AFCD).

As described in press reports, "A shooter with ear-shields on, holding a Remington shotgun, was standing on a concrete platform three feet high above the pigs. 'Bang!' Another pig fell to the ground. Although shot in the head, the pig was still struggling hard, rolling from side to side with the pain.
The shooter did not give him a follow-up shot." Some pigs agonize for five or more minutes before succumbing to their wounds.

Animals shudder in the corner of the killing room, forced to watch the shooter hook his next pig. This constitutes needless torment. In fact, the
daily massacres are so inhumane officials have outsourced killers to replace government veterinarians who refused to participate.

Once again, I respectfully ask Chinese officials to make enforceable animal protection laws a priority before the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.

The mass killing of pigs without electric stunning violates China's "Prevention Of Cruelty To Animals Ordinance," which stipulates an animal
must not be "tortured or terrified." Fully alert, bullet-riddled pigs are clearly "tortured and terrified." Food and Environmental Department (FEHD)
slaughterhouse regulations call for pigs to never endure unnecessary pain.

Photos and eyewitness descriptions show these pigs do not experience instantaneous death. This is hardly an "internationally accepted method of euthanizing pigs." It is morally and legally reprehensible.

If this brutal extermination of pigs continues, it will irreversibly shame China and the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. What China saves in cheap, crude kill methods -- it loses in revenue from Chinese tourism and products. I stand firm in my boycott of Chinese travel and goods until authorities implement significant reforms for pigs, dogs, cats, bears and all animals.

Thank you for accepting my comments on this matter of international concern.

Sincerely,
Name/Country

Protest against rodeos

Source: Anti-Rodeo.org

A rodeo show will take place in Budapest on the 12./13. of May at the Kincsem Park
Lóversenypálya race track. This rodeo show will travel through Hungary, Slovakia, when it will return to Budapest in September.

The Hungarian authorities have been made aware by us of the in-depth veterinary report on rodeo by leading German horse experts and ethologists.

On the basis of this powerful document, the flank strap, the spurs (which are kicked into the horse's neck and shoulders and into the bull's bellies), the Wild Horse Race and the Bull riding have already been banned in most of Germany's federal states.

Please ask the Hungarian government and tourism authorities to ban the event. Tourism is a very important economical factor in Hungary.

If you are in Hungary please pass this message on to animal rights groups, media and politicians, who might help.

Please write your own letter or use the sample letter:

Dear Mr. President,
Dear Prime Minister,
Dear Sirs,

I think rodeo is animal cruelty and I would like to protest against the rodeo, which takes places on the 12th and 13th May 2007 in the Kincsem Park Lóversenypálya in Budapest. I also ask you to prohibit the rodeo show on the other dates, when it travels through Hungary until September.

The EU-Commission views rodeo very criticaly. On the basis of a longterm-veterinary report the flank strap, the spurs, the bull riding and Wild Horse Race have already been banned in most parts of Germany. You will find the veterinary report on the internet on:
www.tierschutz-tvt.de/rodeoengl.pdf (English),
www.tierschutz-tvt.de/rodeo.pdf (German),

Rodeo gives a very bad example to children.

Please prohibit this animal cruelty event. Rodeo gives a bad image to Hungary and will affect tourism negatively.

Yours faithfully,
Name/Country

MALTA

Malta - Paradise or Killing Ground?

Source: http://itstheirdestiny.2kat.net

Although our updates usually deal with Asian subjects, cruelty unfortunately knows no borders and we are sorry to have to focus our sights on the islands of Malta and Gozo.

This small Mediterranean country has long been a favourite destination for holiday makers from Britain, Italy and, more recently, other European nations. Its warm climate and friendly people however hide a darker side from tourists - the cruel treatment of animals and an utter contempt for animal welfare laws.

The widespread poisoning of stray cats goes unprosecuted, while the Animal Welfare Act is unused because too few members of the Council that its success hinges upon can be bothered to hold meetings. Each spring, countless migrating birds are blasted out of the sky by hunters, in open defiance of European law. The Maltese Government has instructed the police not to prosecute. The list goes on.
For more info please visit http://itstheirdestiny.2kat.net/Malta.html

Prime Minister and the Minister responsible for Animal Welfare:

lawrence.gonzi@gov.mt,george.pullicino@gov.mt

With CC to tourism and newspapers:

info@visitmalta.com,info@mta.com.mt,sunday@timesofmalta.com,
daily@timesofmalta.com,
scalleja@independent.com.mt,ngrima@independent.com.mt,
maltatoday@mediatoday.com.mt,
team@maltastar.com,info@maltastar.com

Dear Sir,

Like many people in Europe, I expected that when Malta joined the EU the abysmal treatment of animals there would improve. At first, with the introduction of the Animal Welfare Act 2002 the situation looked promising. Time has passed however and there has sadly been little change.

Cruelty to animals is rarely punished and strays are poisoned in the streets with seeming impunity. The training of officials in recognising breaches of the Act is highly suspect, as is their will to prosecute offenders. When offenders are successfully prosecuted, the penalties handed down to them are woefully inadequate.

The Animal Welfare Council, so pivotal to the success of the Act, is ineffectual and lacking in commitment. Any proposals it has managed to create have so far been shelved.

I respectfully ask you to carry out an urgent revision of the Animal Welfare Act in consultation with the Partnership for Active Animal Welfare Societies (PAAWS) and ensure that representatives of these groups comprise half of the Animal Welfare Council. Since your judiciary tends to apply the minimum penalties for infractions of the Act, I would also ask you to increase these, with higher minimum fines and mandatory prison sentences for repeat offenders. Many thousands of Lira change hands at dog fights and to fine the offenders a few hundred Lira is derogatory and no deterrent.

I also urge you to open an aggressive investigation into the disappearance of street cats and the ongoing widespread poisonings. Please create a fund to enable Animal Welfare groups to effectively run a neuter and release program, thus controlling the numbers of strays and reducing the risk of their unauthorised and sadistic killing.

Meanwhile your Government refuses to ban the spring shooting of migratory birds in blatant breach of the EU Bird Directive. The EU is a democratic institution, membership of which carries a responsibility to abide by its rules. No member country can pick and choose over which ones it will follow. If the rules are inappropriate for Malta perhaps its membership is as well.

Please send a clear message that Malta will not tolerate cruelty to animals. Until such time as you do, I will regretfully be taking my holidays in countries that do more than pay lip-service to animal welfare.

Yours sincerely
Name/Country

U.S.A.

Urge UConn Health Center to permanently ban Primate research

Source:www.uchckillsmonkeys.com/campaign

Yes, the cruel monkey experiments being conducted by David Waitzman at the University of Connecticut Health Center have been terminated. However, the school has yet to agree to a permanent ban on the use of nonhuman primates in experimentation. In recognition of World Week for Animals in Labs, and in solidarity with the millions of animals who are suffering as you read this, please take a moment to write, call, or fax the UConn Health Center administration (even if you already have) and let them know you'd like to see this publicly-funded monkey torture ended forever.

Dear UCHC Administrators and Board members:

Thank you for your time. In light of the recent research misconduct uncovered in David Waitzman's nonhuman primate lab and the school's subsequent termination of the protocol, as a Connecticut resident and person who abhors cruelty, I am requesting that the UConn Health Center enact a permanent moratorium on the use of all nonhuman primates in all biomedical research at all University-affiliated facilities and that the University administration guarantee citizens that the new facility in the former FarmTech building, which is currently well-equipped to confine up to 60 more nonhuman primates, will not be used to conduct research on NHPs.

Every area of research in which NHPs have been used provides evidence against its utility. As a forerunner in progressive science, it is the University's obligation to employ ethical, humane research practices. The use of nonhuman primates for experimentation, in any capacity, is a clear violation of this imperative, as their capacity for suffering is undeniable. Furthermore, it is abundantly clear that researchers at the Health Center are unable to abide by even the most rudimentary animal protection guidelines.

I look forward to the announcement of a positive resolution to this situation.

Sincerely,

Name/Country

PLEASE VOTE FOR THE NEW ANIMAL PROTECTION LAW

The Parliament of Venezuela opened a poll concerning the new Venezuelanian law on protection of animals. This law will ban bulflights amongst other animal abuses.The law was already approved by the MPs and is now before the Environment Commission. If it passes here will be sent to the President of Republic. The poll is the right side of the website.

The question is:
¿Está usted de acuerdo con el proyecto de Ley para la Protección de los Animales Domésticos, Dominados, Silvestres y Exóticos Libres y en Cautiverio?
Sí
No

Do you agree with the proposal of law for protection of animals?
You have to click Sí (Yes)

Thanks. Please vote because the bullfighting mafia are voting in mass against the law.

PETITIONS

Save the Florida Panther
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/607920770

STOP THE BRUTALITY OF ORGANIZED DOG FIGHTING
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/410793720?z00m=99055&ltl=1176909622

Ban the import of dog and cat fur into Canada
http://www.petitiononline.com/Fur01234/petition.html

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