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

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4/23/07: Hong Kong's Brutal Purge of 40,000+ Pigs

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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/qu\

a_awc_leg_pre.html

 

 

PETITION:

http://www.animalearth.org/petition4/index.php

PETITON: Government Brutally Killing 40,000 Pigs

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/981608417

READ ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF PIG HORROR HERE:

http://www.animalearth.org/petition4/index.php

 

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HONG KONG GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS

Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (AFCD)

5/F, Cheung Sha Wan Government Offices

303 Cheung Sha Wan Road; Kowloon

24-hour interactive hotline: 852-2708-8885, to speak to operator your

call will be transferred to " 1823 Citizen's Easy Link "

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Mrs. Stella HUNG, JP, Director of Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation

Mr. LAU Sin Pang, JP, Deputy Director of Agriculture, Fisheries and

Conservation

Mr. LIU Kwei Kin, Agriculture Branch, Assistant Director

Dr. Anthony James, Chairman, Animal Welfare Advisory Group - To advise

the Director of Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation on matters

concerning animal welfare

 

Food and Environmental Hygiene Department, Headquarters

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66 Queensway, Hong Kong

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Mr. York Chow, Secretary for Health, Welfare and Food Bureau

19/F, Murray Building; Garden Road, Hong Kong

ph: (852) 29738284, (852) 21892748

fax: (852) 25413352, (852) 28400467

email: enquiry

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New Territories North Animal Management Centre

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Mr. So Ying Kiu, Chairman

Hong Kong Livestock Industry Association

No. 5, G/F., Pau Cheung Square

Yuen Long; New Territories

ph: (852) 2474 3630; fax: (852) 2442 1695

 

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Beijing Organising Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG)

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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,

 

 

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