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Government Brutally Killing 40,000 Pigs

Target: Hong Kong Government, SAR
Sponsor: David Wong Kai Yan
  • Signatures: 2,419
  • Goal: 40,000
  • Deadline: 12-15-2008

The Hong Kong Government has recently revoked licences of hundreds of local pig farms.  Over 40,000 pigs are involved.  The government is in the process of killing these pigs, right now.  They are using the least expensive way - bullets.  Undercover workers has taken appalling pictures, showing the pigs undergoing lengthy pain & struggle and fear as they witness their peers being tortured to death. 

We must put a stop on this cruelty.

Original reports here: http://www.animalearth.org/petition4/
(English and Japanese translations included)

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Number Date Prefix Name City Country What treatment do the unwanted pigs deserve? Picture Report
2,426 3:14 am PST, Nov 18 Ms. Jasmin Rosales Randwick Australia    
2,425 10:15 pm PDT, Oct 28   Kathy Shimata Honolulu United States Cruel, cruel, cruel. There must be a better answer.  
2,423 9:11 am PDT, Oct 26 Mrs. Ariane R. Erfurt Germany    
2,422 4:19 pm PDT, Oct 9 Mr. Nico Namokel Dresden Germany    
2,421 3:04 pm PDT, Oct 2   Muriel Josserand Meximieux France    
2,420 3:03 pm PDT, Oct 2   Marcelle Josserand Charnoz France    
2,419 1:04 pm PDT, Sep 24   sarah harper algonac United States    
2,417 1:55 pm PDT, Sep 22   tiffany hamann north port United States    
2,416 1:21 pm PDT, Sep 15 Ms. Katherine Arakelian orlando United States Pigs deserve to be treated with tender loving care just like any other animal. They don't deserve to be abused at all. They have feelings.  
2,415 11:02 am PDT, Sep 14   Marc Marroyen Gent Belgium    
2,414 9:50 am PDT, Sep 14   kurt van kleef Zwevegem Belgium    
2,413 9:50 am PDT, Sep 14   isabelle pattyn Zwevegem Belgium    
2,412 9:49 am PDT, Sep 14   rosine baert Zwevegem Belgium    
2,411 9:49 am PDT, Sep 14   vanessa callens Zwevegem Belgium    
2,410 9:49 am PDT, Sep 14   roos baert Zwevegem Belgium    
2,409 9:49 am PDT, Sep 14   frederic vermeulen Zwevegem Belgium    
2,408 8:15 am PDT, Sep 14   Iryna Marroyen Gent Belgium    
2,407 9:40 pm PDT, Sep 10   Helen Leung Hong Kong Hong Kong    
2,406 6:29 pm PDT, Sep 3 Ms. aqua hegron Alpharetta United States    
2,405 5:49 am PDT, Aug 22 Mrs. Lynda Harding Bristol United Kingdom    
2,404 6:43 pm PDT, Jul 28 Mr. Austin Kendall Lakeland United States    
2,403 1:42 pm PDT, Jul 21   greta malkotzoglou Athens Greece    
2,402 9:06 am PDT, Jul 19   Frank rybicki Mittenwald Germany    
2,401 3:41 am PDT, Jul 17   Marcello Meili Zurich Switzerland    

Government Brutally Killing 40,000 Pigs

The NEXT MAGAZINE was told: "Sounds of killing stormed recent noons of the New Territories North Animal Management Centre(commonly called the “Dog Shelter”) of The Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (AFCD) (Hong Kong).  "Truck loads of healthy pigs were transported to the Centre, all lined up waiting to be killed – scream of pigs, mixed with blood spills and brain matters – far more brutal than the electric stunning used in slaughterhouses.  Thoughts of the bloody scenes scared away government veterinarians; and outsourced killers needed to be called in to do it.   After seeing the pictures, lawyers said the government was abusing animals and plainly breaking the laws. Last year, the government pumped one billion HK dollars (HK$1,000,000,000) to lure pig farmers to give up their licenses, the theory being that pig farming was causing serious pollution.  Delicious piglets have a pricey market but the 40,000 breeder pigs are worth nothing for their inferior meat and find no buyers. The government told the farmers to surrender their pigs and assured them that “humane destruction” (“euthanasia”, literally translated) would be given to the pigs free of charge. Instead of keeping its promise, the Government is trying to meet its year-end killing deadline in the cheapest way, by putting on the massacre shows, daily...."

Japanese translation:

?業および保存?(AFCD)(?港)の北動物管??心(一般に「犬避難?」と呼ばれる)の最近の正午に、大きく怖い悲鳴が?げることが?る。たくさんの?康なブタは何台のト?ックで、?心に運ばれて、殺されるべき完全に並べられた待っていることに-?のこぼれおよび頭脳の問題と-はるかに屠殺場で使用された電気思いがけないより混?される残?なブタの叫び運ばれた。?場面の思考は政府の獣医をおびえさせた;それをするためにそして外?委託されたキ?ーは呼ばれる必要が?った。映?を見た後、弁護士は政府が動物を虐待して、明らかに法律を壊していたことを言った。 ?年、政府は　“養豚業が深?な?染を引き起こしていたことで?る”という?由で、1,000,000,000のHKド?で、養豚家に免?証を?きらめさせることを納得した。おいしいコブタに?価な市場が?るが、40,000匹の繁殖動物のブタは彼らの劣った肉のため価値がないで、バイ?ーを見つけられない。政府は「無料でブタを安楽?させる」とブタを手渡した農夫に保証したが、実は最も安い方法で年?の前に全?のブタを??できるため、?日虐殺することがつづいている。...

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