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Dear
Friends
We are hearing increasingly throughout the
west of dogs being killed for meat in our own
countries in defiance of our laws. On the 20th
November 2001, a local TV station in New York
sparked off a furore when it revealed to millions
of Americans that Korean immigrants had imported
their habit of dog eating to the USA. In 2002,
Australians were outraged to learn that Asians
were eating dogs in Australia. Only last week, our
colleagues at Sirius GAO (http://sirius.2kat.net) uncovered a dog farm in New
Zealand (please visit their site for more details
and please don't forget to sign their Swiss
petition at http://www.petitionpetition.com/cgi/petition.cgi?id=5335).
The first item is particularly
worrying in that the suspects involved in this
latest USA crime appear to be Caucasian, although
the dog was made to suffer in the Asian
manner. It is imperative that all dog and cat
eaters of whatever race or cultural background
understand that such abuses of companion animals
will not be tolerated in the western world. This
case is a stark lesson to anyone who is tempted to
allow their righteous indignation to degenerate
into racism. We must always be vigilant for such
activities in our own neighbourhoods, whether
perpetrated by Asians, Caucasians, Africans, or
anyone else. We can never afford
complacency.
Jonesboro
Kathy Morris
Reports
Police Investigating Dog
Eating
June 11, 2003
Posted
at: 10:08 p.m. CDT
JONESBORO,
Ark. -- Jonesboro Police detectives want to talk
with two residents about the apparent beating (to)
death and consumption of a dog.
It's
believed that a chow-breed dog was taken from his
owner's home in Jonesboro sometime between late
Friday night and late Saturday night.
Local
animal lovers are pushing police so that, if the
suspects are arrested, they get the highest
possible penalty placed against them.
Jared Kemp
now only has the toy his chow named Pooh liked to
play with. Kemp and his father say they noticed
their family dog was missing from their home on
West Elm Avenue in the early morning hours on
Sunday.
"It's a
very peaceful neighborhood," said neighbor, and
dog owner, Karla Benzing. "For the most
part."
Benzing's
other neighbor across the street is suspected,
however, of committing an almost unimaginable act:
Beating to death a dog, grilling it, and then
eating it. Local animal lovers are pushing police
so that, if the suspects are arrested, they get
the highest possible penalty placed against them.
A police
report was filed Sunday night by three
acquaintances, including a relative, of Matthew
Harden, the man alleged to have committed the
crime. The three, according to the police, told an
officer that they did not believe Harden's alleged
claim that he killed the dog. That is until they
discovered parts of a dog remaining on the grill
at a home at Harden's residence at 500 West
Elm.
According
to a police report: "Upon looking inside the
grill, under the lid, (the officer) saw two canine
paws inside a Ziplock (sic) bag along with blood
stained paper towels."
The report
goes on to state that another Jonesboro man, Nick
Allison, is suspected of assisting Harden.
Harden's
friends say that he claimed to use a ladder to
hang the dog in order to process the carcass.
Investigators say that a nylon rope was found at
the base of a ladder that appeared to have blood
stains on it.
"I believe
it's 95 percent of the serial killers that have
ever been caught and convicted have confessed to
the fact that they started with torturing and
maiming and killing animals," said animal advocate
Wanda Turner of Northeast Arkansans for
Animals.
Harden and
Allison could be charged with Animal Cruelty, a
Class A misdemeanor. Turner hopes they'll also be
charged with the Class D felony of Criminal
Mischief because, she says, a court could view
Pooh as property.
"It's a
lack of respect for life," said Turner. "And it's
got to change."
The loss
of Pooh is only the latest of tragedies that have
hit the Kemp family. Jared Kemp lost his
grandfather last week; and, last year, another
family dog passed away.
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