"It's Their Destiny" - Updates
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| November 22, 2001 |
Regular News items on Korean animal abuse. |
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For once, not related to Korea - but all the more important for that
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Barcelona, Spain
Mataro, in Barcelona, does not employ municipal workers to deal with the problem of the city's stray animals. Instead, they have decided to tender this out to a private company that can do the job more cheaply. The horrific video on this page shows just how this company can be so cost-effective.
After capture, the stray dogs and cats are kept for 8-10 days. If at the end of this period they remain unclaimed, they are "euthanised". This in itself (although unpleasant) is not particularly unusual. The manner of their deaths however is, and is more reminiscent of the Nazis' "Final Solution" than ways of disposal of unwanted animals that one would expect to find in any modern, civilised European country.
Firstly they are gassed to prevent their struggles, not by purposely designed anaesthetics, but by carbon-monoxide from a pipe fitted to the exhaust of a truck. The hapless victims are then stuffed into plastic bags and burnt alive, in full view of others awaiting this fate. Waiting time is around 10 - 15 minutes.
Regular visitors to this site will perhaps recall the recent incident in a Spanish animal refuge in which 15 dogs had their paws chopped off and bled to death (Animal News, 5/11/01), and may not be too surprised that this can happen in a country that, were the perpetrators involved convicted, would merely fine these criminals. Hanging, incidentally, also appears to be a common method of killing unwanted dogs in Spain. Sound familiar?
Those of us working to end the torture of animals in Asia are frequently accused of "imperialism" and "seeking to impose our values on other cultures". This is an opportunity to refute those accusations once and for all by lending our assistance to the organisations trying to end these abominations in Europe. Please watch the video (our apologies for the audio being in Spanish) and then visit "The Canine Situation in Spain" website.
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