Video of Dogs Butchered at Indonesian Market Sparks Outrage

Straits Times ^ | JAN 24, 2018

[nickcarraway]

Disturbing video footage of dogs being butchered and their hair burnt off with blowtorches at markets in Indonesia has prompted howls of protest from animal rights activists.

Campaigners from the Dog Meat-Free Indonesia group are urging authorities to shut down the country's live animal markets, where they say thousands of dogs and cats are bludgeoned to death each week.

Video filmed by the activists at markets in Tomohon and Langowan cities on Sulawesi island shows a stomach-churning array of burnt, mutilated animals - including monkeys, cats and bats - being sold openly.

[Fai Mao]

How monocultural of the people protesting!

Honestly, those dogs are the lucky ones.

[KC_Lion]

Why are people so Xenophobic and more especially Islamophobic?! :O

PETA hates foreigners AND Muslims!

[cba123]

Um.

I don’t think this is an Indonesian thing. I think it is an Asian thing, and many other places as well.

Seriously. I think this goes on all over the world.

All over. Wake up people.

[Steely Tom]

More of the Gorgeous Mosaic.

[MuttTheHoople]

Why do they hate Obama?

[SkyPilot]

Muslims.

[SkyPilot]

God gave us the animals, and Satan wants to destroy whatever God creates. Dogs are amazing creatures. The Bible and the Koran could not be more different on how we are instructed to treat animals.

[Tax-chick]

Why doesn’t anyone care about the bats?

[ConservativeMind]

I’d be willing to try dog meat.

[ConservativeMind]

The Bible is silent on eating dog meat, save for what Paul said was that all foods were made clean.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Fido is livestock to them.

[Delta 21]

Doesnt northern China have St. Bernard farms? Good dress weight. Woof WooF

[PGR88]

I thought dogs were “haram” in Islam?

[HiTech RedNeck]

While it’s permissible before God, if you had to survive you may eat Fluffy and Fido, cultural factors dictate whether it is a good witness.

And the answer there is pretty much no.

[heterosupremacist]

ConservativeMind wrote: The Bible is silent on eating dog meat, save for what Paul said was that all foods were made clean. You have made a valid point. Any beast of the field (even swine) were subjugated to Adam ergo HUMANITY; by the Creator of all Creation. When my dad served in Korea, all the best restaurants in Seoul served puppy McNuggets... MMMM...Tasty!

[the_daug]

Indonesia has maybe 200 tribes and tribal custom trumps religion.

[ConservativeMind]

The Bible does not say one leads another astray by eating or not eating a food.

[where's_the_Outrage?]

Some local Thais in my village used to raise dogs and all of sudden one day, no dogs. Found out they would sell them to “dog trucks” headed to Cambodia Markets. The link is not for the weak of heart.

https://www.google.co.th/search?safe=off&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1366&bih=618&ei=nVRpWuKjNMbGvgTM-qTACg&q=cambodia+dog+markets&oq=cambodia+dog+markets&gs_l=img.3...4881.13234.0.13699.22.12.0.9.9.0.352.1816.0j3j1j3.7.0....0...1ac.1.64.img..6.10.1924.0..0j35i39k1.0.nIh_EX7n-zo

[the_daug]

Actually the bible categorizes clean and unclean. Noah knew as there were 7 of every clean animal on the ark. Moses categorizes clean and unclean. But man was not given permission to eat meat till the landing of the ark.