PETA Forces Bolivian Military to Cease all Dog Stabbing and Torture
Submitted by blakmira on Wed, 04/01/2009 - 15:06
After nearly a month of public campaigning against horrific combat-training exercises conducted by the Bolivian military—in which live dogs were shown in a video being tied down and stabbed repeatedly and screaming in agonizing pain—PETA is now applauding the Bolivian Ministry of Defense for issuing the country's first animal protection regulation, which ends the torture and killing of animals in military exercises.
Thousands of people wrote to the Bolivian government through our online action alert, asking officials to end all use of animals in military combat trainings. On Monday, the minister of defense in Bolivia, Walker San Miguel, appeared on Bolivian television to issue the regulation, declaring that "we are issuing a Resolution 217, by which we prohibit all acts of violence, exploitation, mistreatment that provokes the death of animals."
As this is Bolivia's very first animal protection regulation, this is a historic decision that we're sure will positively impact how other countries in the region treat animals. We couldn't achieve any of our landmark victories for animals without your help. Please support our lifesaving work today.
There's no excuse for any country to torture and kill animals—and we want the Department of Defense in the U.S to hear this message loud and clear. Tell the U.S. to follow Bolivia's lead and stop burning, shooting, poisoning, and stabbing live animals in medical-training exercises.
On behalf of animals everywhere who have no voice but that of caring individuals—thank you!
Blakmira ---
Kicking ass over everyone else on this thread! Great job & thank you for caring & being a voice for defenseless animals. :)
Obama = O.ne B.ig A.ss M.istake A.merica
Obama = O.ne B.ig A.ss M.istake A.merica
blakmira thank you for your good
work. It's one more front in the ongoing struggle to educate people toward responsible behavior and moral awareness, to all other people as well as to animals and the earth.
I fully support PETA in its educational and humanitarian work, though I think its efforts to get laws passed may, long term, just add more problems by feeding the perception that it's the government's job to take care of everything; and in reality we know historically and today, men of power are the worst examples of inhumanity, on a mass scale that harms and destroys people, animals, and the earth.
Definitely. PETA needs to drop the statist approach
and work on persuading people with logic.
oh you are so welcome
Gandhi said "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."
One of the greatest creative geniuses of all time, Leonardo da Vinci actually used to rescue chickens from poultry vendors just so they wouldn't be slaughtered -- one of history's first animal rights activists.
It really takes guts and heart to step away from the pack and care about another species.
Ingrid Newkirk Says different things than you.
Ingrid Newkirk PETA,s president and cofounder's admited goals is to ban eating meat, drinking milk, fishing, hunting, wearing leather shoes, owning pets and benefiting from medical research.
Last year they killed 21,339 animals last year.
They found homes for 1 out of every 300 animals they get.
PETA has a $32 million annual budget by contrast local SPCA's have a shoestring budget but manage to find homes for the vast majority.
PETA's own 2004 tax returns show a $1,500 gift to the terrorist Earth Liberation Front (ELF), a donation made after ELF activists had been convicted of various violent crimes.
In short PETA kills animals... to save money for advertising... to tell people not to kill animals. Sounds about right.
"Live Free or Die"
"Live Free or Die"
ahhhh... so it is more important then
to despise PETA than to applaud the fact that they got the Bolivia Military to stop torturing dogs? Many people were outraged by the video. Did you watch it?
I've never see a quote stating they wanted a "ban" on any such things as long as there is "supply and demand." As for benefiting from medical research, you mean like vaccinations and FDA-approved drugs that kill? More people are becoming educated about the scam of big pharma and their toxic drugs.
But yes, animal rights activists who perform illegal rescues are targeted as "domestic terrorists;" -- ironically enough, so are Ron Paul supporters and Libertarians!
As for "owning" pets, Ingrid doesn't "own" any animals but she is however the guardian of a dog.
I shall not argue with you
I used to be a loyal member of PETA untill I was at a speach given by Ingrid where I heard her say these things.
That is when I left.
My husband and I are humane to animals. We have chickens for eggs and meat and my husband is a hunter.
I applaud PETA for stoping a very bad thing, however they are hypocrites.
I will help the SPCA rather than PETA.
Animal rights activists who peform illegal rescues are targeted as criminals for violating someone elses property.
Animal rights activists who fire bomb homes and businesses are targeted as terrorists.
Please do not compare the Patriots on this site and across the nation to violent people.
As for your 1984 double speak. "Ingrid doesn't "own" any animals but she is however the guardian of a dog"
In the eyes of the law she ownes that dog period. No matter how she spins it.
To close my husband and I are moral people so we try to be as humane to our animals as is possible. But "humane" is an interesting word because it has to do with humans and no other animal.
As an example
I had a cat who recently died of cancer but in his younger years I would watch as he caught a mouse. He would take it to the middle of the biggest patch of grass he could find, put the mouse down and back away from it and crouch.
The mouse thought that he had left, shaking and terrified the mouse would try to get away to safety. My cat would let it get a few feet away and then pounce, bite hard into the mouse and give it a thrashing. then put the still live mouse (he would not kill it for at lease an hour, once it took him three hours) back down and slink back and crouch again to let him try to escape.Where was the humane treatment there?
Or the time my beagle Snoopy found one of our chickens in his yard. So he chased it and it got stuck half way under the fence. My beagle proceded to lick off all its feathers and then the skin before we found this. The chickens intestines could be easily seen and we had to put her down.
Where was the humane treatment there?
Honestly I do not care what you answer to these questions. After being on this site for so long and feeling as if I know a great many people on this site they are not moved by emotional agruments or hipocrates. They follow logic and peacefull means of action and protest.
Please do not confuse us with violent extremists.
"Live Free or Die"
"Live Free or Die"
Funny you should mention
Funny you should mention Hippocrates (I think you meant hypocrites, though) as he was the author of the phrase "First, do no harm." That's the credo most loyal PETA supporters try to live by and follow.
You really shouldn't insinuate that all or most believers in animal rights are "violent extremists" and/or do illegal things. A lot follow the principles of Gandhi, as in non-violent protest and living your life as an example. "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good people do nothing." - Edmund Burke
As for you were formerly a "loyal" member of PETA, that does not compute. You slaughter your own chickens and your husband is a hunter, yet you formerly supported PETA? Speaking of logic, now that doesn't sound very logical to me.
Sorry, I don't understand your question about where was the humane treatment after you euthanized a suffering chicken, as that was the proper thing to do. That is what PETA would have done.
If you're comparing an animal's instincts to those of a human, that is even more confusing. If you want to make the point that humans have the right to use, abuse, kill, etc. most any animal they want, but also say they are equal -- well, you can't have it both ways.
Apparently you're unclear as to the definition of doublespeak --owning and being a guardian have two totally different meanings. Does your husband own you? Do you own your children? It makes more sense to me to that although I own furniture, I admit that I can never own any living being as I believe slavery of any kind is always wrong.
After watching the video...
...I'd like to personally kill each and every one of those soldiers (and that teacher that starved her cats too).
The worst thing is, they said they do this in America too.
Thank you for watching the video
The US military has been doing this for decades to "train" soldiers how to kill and maim living beings.
What about the 2000+ pets
that PETA killed last year, adding to their 20,000+ total of pets killed?
Oh, I heard they "adopted out" 7 pets all last year too.
Yep, read it right here on DP, I think it was yesterday.
Check the recent archives.
PETA is an animal killing organization.
Apparently
you didn't read PETA's comment and reply "Why We Euthanize" -- not interested in both sides of the sad story, are you? I can reprint it, if you like. Let me know after you've read it if you still think your statements are based on careful thought and are based on something other than misdirected anger.
"In my first year working at a grossly substandard animal shelter in Maryland, I forced myself to go in early to euthanize dogs by holding them in my arms and gently helping them escape an uncaring world without trauma or pain and to spare them from being stabbed haphazardly—while they were fully conscious, terrified and aware—in the general vicinity of their hearts with needles blunt from reuse and left to thrash on the floor until they finally died by the callous people who would arrive later to do the job.
I always wonder how anyone cannot recognize that there is a world of difference between painlessly euthanizing animals out of compassion—aged, injured, sick, and dying animals whose guardians can't afford euthanasia, for instance—as PETA does, and causing them to suffer terror, pain, and a prolonged death while struggling to survive on the streets, at the hands of untrained and uncaring "technicians," or animal abusers.
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Diamond was suffering from a painful facial tumor that was slowly eating away at his face
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Sasha had a severely infected bite wound.
It's easy to point the finger at those who are forced to do the "dirty work" caused by a throwaway society's casual acquisition and breeding of dogs and cats who end up homeless and unwanted, but at PETA, we will never turn our backs on neglected, unloved, and homeless animals—even if the best we can offer them is a painless release from a world that doesn't have enough heart or homes with room for them. It makes it easy for people to throw stones at us, but we are against all needless killing: for hamburgers, fur collars, dissection, sport hunting―the works. PETA handled far more animals than 2,124 in 2008. In fact, we took in more than 10,000 dogs and cats and work very hard to persuade people to spay and neuter their animals and to commit to a lifetime of care and respect for them. We go so far as to transport animals to and from our spay/neuter clinics, where they are spayed or neutered and given vet care, often for free! Since 2001, PETA's low- to no-cost spay-and-neuter mobile clinics, SNIP and ABC, have sterilized more than 50,000 animals, preventing hundreds of thousands of animals from being born, neglected, abandoned, abused, or euthanized when no one wanted them. And on a national level, PETA is focusing on the root of the problem through our Animal Birth Control (ABC) campaign.
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Big Girl was still alive when a field worker found her
If anyone has a good home, love, and respect to offer, we beg them: Go to a shelter and take one or two animals home. The problem is that few people do that, choosing instead to go to a breeder or a pet shop and not "fixing" their dogs and cats, which contributes to the high euthanasia rate that animal shelters face. Most of the animals we took in and euthanized could hardly be called "pets," as they had spent their lives chained up in the back yard, for instance. They were unsocialized, never having been inside a building of any kind or known a pat on the head. Others were indeed someone's, but they were aged, sick, injured, dying, too aggressive to place, and the like, and PETA offered them a painless release from suffering, with no charge to their owners or custodians.
Every day, PETA's fieldworkers help abused and neglected dogs—many of them pit bulls nowadays and many of them forced to live their lives on chains heavy enough to tow an 18-wheeler—by providing them with food; clean water; lightweight tie-outs; deworming medicine; flea, tick, and fly-strike prevention; free veterinary care; sturdy wooden doghouses stuffed with straw bedding; and love.
What we see is enough to make you lose faith in humanity. One pit bull we gained custody of, named Asia, looked like a skeleton covered with skin when PETA released her from the 15-pound chain she had been kept on for years. Asia suffered from three painful and deadly intestinal obstructions, which prevented her from keeping any food down. She faced an agonizing, lingering death, so our veterinarian recommended euthanasia to end her suffering. We pursued criminal charges against those responsible for her condition, leading to their conviction for cruelty to animals. That is just one of the dozens of cases we see every week.
The majority of adoptable dogs are never brought through our doors (we refer them to local adoption groups and walk-in animal shelters). Most of the animals we house, rescue, find homes for, or put out of their misery come from miserable conditions, which often lead to successful prosecution and the banning of animal abusers from ever owning or abusing animals again.
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Santana had facial injuries so serious that his right eye was swollen shut and his jaw was ripped and hanging
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This dog was suffering from advanced cancer
As long as animals are still purposely bred and people aren't spaying and neutering their companions, open-admission animal shelters and organizations like PETA must do society's dirty work. Euthanasia is not a solution to overpopulation but rather a tragic necessity given the present crisis. PETA is proud to be a "shelter of last resort," where animals who have no place to go or who are unwanted or suffering are welcomed with love and open arms.
Please, if you care about animals, help prevent more of them from being born only to end up chained and left to waste away in people's back yards, suffering on mean streets where people kick at them or shoo them away like garbage, tortured at the hands of animal abusers, or, alas, euthanized in animal shelters for lack of a good home. If you want to save lives, always have your animals spayed or neutered.
Posted by Ingrid E. Newkirk
What I see
are 4 examples, a lot of emotional anecdotal rhetoric, and over 2100 pets killed last year alone.
Sorry.
On the show Miami Animal Police
so many animals that have been rescued have been abused so badly that they are euthanized. There is at least one that has to be put to sleep on every show.
These are no one's "pets" with chains embedded in their necks and left outside to starve. The animals PETA's veterinarian euthanizes are rescued from horrendous, abusive conditions, like the ones in Miami. There is not enough homes to take in these animals, the pounds put to sleep millions every year. There's no need to demonize PETA or the Humane Society for these actions. They are doing the best they can with intolerable conditions these animals are left in and as long as thoughtless people keep breeding their animals and then dumping them off when they get tired of them.