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Stop South Africa From Sacrificing Animals at Soccer World Cup - The Petition Site


Animals  (tags: petition, AnimalWelfare, AnimalCruelty, animalrights, animals, animalwelfare, cruelty, death, ethics, killing, humans, protection, slaughter )

Daphna
- 57 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
for the 2010 World Cup tournament scheduled to take place June 2010. Zolani Mkiva, chairman of the Makhonya Royal Trust, said the tournament has to to be blessed in true "African style" and that they are going to slaughter cows in sacrifice at each of th
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Gorilly Girl (371)
Sunday October 25, 2009, 4:29 pm
Thank you! You signed at 2:02 PM PDT, Oct 25, 2009
You can do more

Hmmmmmmmmm guess I already did it...LOL

Big Gorilly Hgs
 

Rhonda Maness (467)
Sunday October 25, 2009, 8:22 pm
Thank you for signing “Stop South Africa from sacrificing animals at Soccer World Cup
Thanks Daphna
 

Joycey B. (699)
Sunday October 25, 2009, 9:34 pm
Thanks Daphna.

# 184: 9:33 pm PDT, Oct 25, Joycey Berry, North Carolina
 

Tierney G. (317)
Monday October 26, 2009, 1:36 am
Signed Oct 25 but thanks Daphna
 

Gudrun D. (103)
Monday October 26, 2009, 6:50 am
Thank you! You signed at 6:49 AM PDT, Oct 26, 2009
236 signatures! Thanks Daphna!
 

chris b. (1404)
Monday October 26, 2009, 7:34 am
What with the Zulu bull killing tradition and the whitemans canned hunting and deliberate whale massacres along with Namibias emulation of Canadian seal clubbing what next a full English fox hunt. But this is resurrecting some old "tradition" so we must not criticise it! What kind of message does this present the world about South Africa a bright modern country which apparently wants to return to the dark ages of beastial savagery. What next, Aparthied! Poverty! Colonialism! Exploitation! Wake up South Africa and do something for your people and animals have you not had enough of suppression and exploitation to last a few lifetimes without an exibition of blatant cruelty at the football stadiams staging the tournament. Such cruel sacrificial spectacles should stay in the history books as a lesson in how not to behave! There can be no sane reason for visiting cruelty on any animal in the name of "tradition"! Think again before you do irreparable damage to South Africa's reputation and inflict in the process unnessary cruelty on innocent animals!
 

Kari D. (177)
Monday October 26, 2009, 8:54 am
# 260: 8:51 am PDT, Oct 26, Kari Dyrdahl, Minnesota
 

Annie Cowling (44)
Monday October 26, 2009, 3:41 pm
Signed, thank-you
 

Mary Cook (505)
Tuesday October 27, 2009, 6:33 am
"A long habit of not thinking a thing is wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right."
~Thomas Paine

"Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity."
~Shaw

"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
 

chris b. (1404)
Tuesday October 27, 2009, 6:40 am
They certainly connot invoke that excuse as they implie some sort of pre colonial "African" ritual which by definition must be a non continuous ritual atrocity So why ressurect it now! Leave it in the history books with all the other undesirable things we have done in the past. Invest in the future by learning from the past! Not by emulating past activities especially those that are cruel and harmful to animals or humans!
 

Maryanne Campbell (84)
Tuesday October 27, 2009, 7:49 am
Signed and noted,thank you
 
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