Saturday October 31, 2009, 8:24 am
Signed, thank-you Cher

Saturday October 31, 2009, 9:33 am
What is happening to society when there are people consider it having fun to torture and kill any animal in such a horrifying way? Are humans losing all sense of decency?

Saturday October 31, 2009, 11:35 am
"Thank you for helping Animals"

Signed Cher...and hope a ton of people do the same!

Saturday October 31, 2009, 11:40 am


Me too Marilyn ... me too!!!!!!!!!

Saturday October 31, 2009, 11:51 am
signed. sign while we still got some time

Saturday October 31, 2009, 11:58 am
Signed, thanks Cher.

Thank You for Helping Animals!

Saturday October 31, 2009, 12:15 pm
Signed thanks Cher
This is hard to understand how anyone in their right minds could or would do this!

Saturday October 31, 2009, 12:30 pm
Thank You for Helping Animals!

Saturday October 31, 2009, 1:22 pm
Signed. Will tell friends and post the link the the Firebull group. C x

Saturday October 31, 2009, 1:42 pm
signed gladly

Saturday October 31, 2009, 8:43 pm
Thank You for Helping Animals!
Thanks Cher

Sunday November 1, 2009, 1:30 am
Signed Cher. Let's hope we can stop this cruel custom

Sunday November 1, 2009, 2:08 am
This practice has probably existed for hundreds of years. I wrote a tactful note. Like domestic violence, these traditions continue until we raise consciousness . . . and more. (Yes, people do this due to poor self-esteem, often regenerated because of poverty.) Be patient -- some changes take lifetimes -- but change does come.

Sunday November 1, 2009, 4:14 am
Signed and and forwarded and posted on all blogs

Sunday November 1, 2009, 6:31 am
I added that surely there are other ways of testing one's courage than to inflict pain on an animal.

Sunday November 1, 2009, 6:55 am
"Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity."
~Shaw

"A long habit of not thinking a thing is wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right."
~Thomas Paine

"The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom."
~J. Mill

"The most damaging phrase in the language is: 'It's always been done that way.”
~Grace Murray Hopper

"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."
~Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, 1869 - 1948, Nobel Prize Winner

"Any society which does not insist upon respect for all life must necessarily decay."
~Albert Einstein

Sunday November 1, 2009, 8:36 am
Signed and sent and forwarded. Thanks Cher. Added comments too. See below.
A society that tolerates cruelty, worse - encourages and rewards it, is dangerous to itself and to all other communities and societies. People who have learned to enjoy being cruel will only continue being cruel. This does not heal itself, but feeds on itself and escalates. These cruel, brutal, and vicious people will find victims and those victims will be the most vulnerable members of society. They are creating abusive and violent people - why? Where is any upside to this? How does any good come from creating cruel and brutal people who will go on to find more victims to attack? Why would anyone find these people trustworthy to visit or to do business with or even tolerate at all? Is your entire society rooted in the dark ages or do you just treasure the violent and brutal parts of your past? How revolting and subhuman. So, why?

Sunday November 1, 2009, 10:29 am

Noted & signed.

Sunday November 1, 2009, 5:47 pm
signed

DISGUSTING BARBARIC INHUMAN MONSTERS.

SICKOS. TEAR APART AN ANIMAL TO SHOW BRAVERY? MORE LIKE SHOW HOW BLOOD THIRSTY AND SICK OF A SOCIETY YOU LIVE IN.

Tuesday November 24, 2009, 5:41 am



Please contact South African officials and urge them to ban this bloody First Fruits Festival tradition.

Buyelwa Patience Sonjica, Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs
Fax: +27 12 336 7817

President Jacob Zuma
Fax: +27 12 323 8246

Lakela Kaunda, Deputy Director General, Private Office of the President,
Fax: +27 12 323 3231

Godfrey Mdhluli, Media Liaison Officer, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
Fax: +27 12 321 8558

Anele Lokwe, Private Secretary, Ministry of Arts and Culture
Fax: +27 12 440 4485

Welile A W Nhlapo, Ambassador
South African Embassy, Washington DC
Fax: 202 265 1607