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The Brutal Festival at Nem Thuong Village, Vietnam ACTION


Animals  (tags: pigs, abuse, abused, AnimalCruelty, AnimalWelfare, animalcruelty, animalrights, animals, animalwelfare, crime, cruelty, death, ethics, humans, killed, killing, law, protection, sadness, slaughter, society, suffering )

Cristina
- 111 days ago - occupyforanimals.org
Every year, at a village near Hanoi, a pig is brutally chopped into two so that people can smear banknotes with its blood in the belief that it would bring luck.



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Cheryl B. (58)
Saturday February 4, 2012, 5:32 am
horrible
 

Cheryl B. (58)
Saturday February 4, 2012, 5:33 am
thanks for telling the world
 

Yvonne Fast (59)
Saturday February 4, 2012, 9:10 am
How extremely respectless and brutal! What's wrong with those people? This must be lack of intelligence!!!!
 

Inge L. (86)
Saturday February 4, 2012, 10:05 am
Horrific!!!!!!
 

Nancy Roussy (72)
Saturday February 4, 2012, 1:04 pm
Signed and noted, thank you!
 

Tommy D. (44)
Saturday February 4, 2012, 2:28 pm
Signed
 

Elizabeth O. (128)
Saturday February 4, 2012, 4:25 pm
Signed.
 

Iona Kentwell (88)
Saturday February 4, 2012, 7:13 pm
I try to respect different cultures and traditions, but this is seriously gross.
 

Alison A. (160)
Saturday February 4, 2012, 8:37 pm
What is wrong with these people, they are an utter disgrace, I really don't know how they could cause such suffering and fear, as for it being good luck; grow up! How can torturing others be good luck, try being a good person who is kind to all walks of life, at least then if it doesn't bring you good luck, you can still hold your head high and say you were a good person in life.

Message sent and GoPetition signed.

*****Please everyone, make sure you scroll to the bottom and sign the petition******
 

Roger Monk (0)
Saturday February 4, 2012, 10:43 pm
So, no superstition or mumbo jumbo there, then.

But let's not be too quick to sit in judgement. In the last five minutes on this site I've read about some States where bestiality is not a felony and a "Sport" of a rider jumping into water from a great height on the back of a horse. And don't get me started on what the Spanish races will do with bulls. Let's face it, some humans are inhumane.
 

Susanne R. (175)
Sunday February 5, 2012, 12:00 am
It appears that this tradition is based on an ignorant old belief fueled by GREED. I can understand the plight of the poor and their desire to improve their conditions, but ignorance can be fixed.

Let's hope the Koch brothers don't get wind of this tradition. If they do, they'll be setting up another one of their secretive meetings for ALEC members only...

Signed and noted!!!
 

Dan and Tina Partlow (31)
Sunday February 5, 2012, 12:07 am
Signed and noted. Barbaric!
 

Andrea Nemec (178)
Sunday February 5, 2012, 4:52 am
Noted and signed! Thanks!
 

Elaine A. (81)
Sunday February 5, 2012, 8:50 am
I so hate the asian peoples and their filthy acts of voilence towards animals! Has anyone told these slat eyed bastards they'd be better off eating rice!!!
 

Vicky Pitchford (138)
Sunday February 5, 2012, 9:01 am
horrible, and elaine, don't be racist.
 

Levyonn D. (0)
Sunday February 5, 2012, 9:14 am
There are violence towards animals in all the world, not just in Asia. In Spain (berfore) or Mexico for example you have the bullfighting. In Canada the seals hunting. Etc. So, Elaine don't be racist.
 

Michele Wilkinson (82)
Sunday February 5, 2012, 9:20 am
Noted and signed.
Thanks
 

Micheal Moffat (52)
Sunday February 5, 2012, 9:24 am
uneducated and superstitious sounds like most humans on this planet its time to wake the sheeple and get them some education.. wow, bull fights, dog fights, cock fights, horse fights, swing a dog in the air. tear apart a pig, cripple a bear to drain its bile, defin a shark to make some soup, torture and suffer animals to make food and a buck, kick a cat to make a field goal, starve a puppy to see if you can, crush small animals to make a video, sniper shoot a moose or ak47 a dear, use dogs on a wild boar.. test products and chemicals on animals big and small even though the results will still end up killing in the long run do what ever you want to make a buck to get off to tune out to feel powerful even if its only an illusion why the heck not, big sky daddy put it all here for our amusement and if not it then something else.. before you blame a culture of ignorant people look at our own culture of ignorance and ask yourself what's wrong with this picture?? knowledge is not power its empowering lets be empowered... life has value beyond measure
Peace and Love
 

Rooibos Bird (239)
Sunday February 5, 2012, 9:36 am
To all those everywhere who think "humans have the right to do as we please," look at the facial expression on the swine's face. The horror, the fear, the *knowledge* that one is a prisoner, about to suffer and be executed - it's all there. This is a HORRIBLE image because it really shows humans as an evil hoard, victimizing and murdering other species for some made-up justification.

Imagine if any one of us were kept this way by other humans, tied and stretched on our backs, and then hacked in two for *someone's pleasure*.

Oh, wait!

That's happened. It doesn't matter which species humans victimize, what matters is that we are *still* doing it, and making up incredibly childish excuses to "permit" such behaviours.

Shame on these mob of murderers, I hope Nemesis visits you soon to punish you for your crimes of hate, murder, and stupidity!
 

brittany h. (16)
Sunday February 5, 2012, 10:01 am
OMG, this is gross, too much. Sign and noted.
 

Carla E. (59)
Sunday February 5, 2012, 10:23 am
SICK SICK BRAINS!!! I am so upset, I can't tell you.
 

BarbCat Sunshine Lady (1335)
Sunday February 5, 2012, 10:23 am
My signature #4,155 and I commeted too! I don't see how on God's Earth these villagers can comment such a heinious crime! Thnx Cristina :(
 

Carla E. (59)
Sunday February 5, 2012, 10:24 am
No way to understand this, not for a second. Monsters!
I wish they would do the same with them!
 

Carla E. (59)
Sunday February 5, 2012, 10:25 am
Please everybody we have to tell this the world. Please share it.
 

Allan Yorkowitz (39)
Sunday February 5, 2012, 10:48 am
The actions, behaviors, and traditions in the Asian countries are truly acts of immorality.
 

Waltraud U. (17)
Sunday February 5, 2012, 12:35 pm
THEY WILL FIND THEIR MASTERS

I WROTE TO ALL OF THEM

THANKS
 

Alicia v. (179)
Sunday February 5, 2012, 12:36 pm
Signed. Horrwndous.
 

Carole R. (0)
Sunday February 5, 2012, 12:44 pm
I really didn't want to see this. Please provide signature field without the horror.
 

Alice B. (246)
Sunday February 5, 2012, 1:10 pm
Do readers truly believe that the pigs they are EATING from factory "farming" fare any better?!!!!!

HYPOCRISY FOR ANYONE SIGNING THIS WHO ALSO EATS ANIMALS HERE IN THE USA - ESPECIALLY PIGS - CLOSE TO 100% OF PIGS "FARMED" IN THE USA ARE FACTORY-"FARMED."

If you're not a part of the solution you're a direct part of the brutality yourself. GO VEGAN.
 

Marlene Dinkins (124)
Sunday February 5, 2012, 1:29 pm
horrible !!!!!!!!!brutality!!!!!!!! also sadness and pain in my heart. omg poor baby piglet. i wish i could hel him!!!!!!!!!! i wish i have magic, but i do not.
 

Kye J. (27)
Sunday February 5, 2012, 1:34 pm
Vile uncivilised bastards.I would love to see each of them decapitated.Signed
 

Marlene Dinkins (124)
Sunday February 5, 2012, 1:34 pm
am sorry but i could not signe!!!!!!! i had tryed many times.
 

janet f. (19)
Sunday February 5, 2012, 1:58 pm
These people are barbarians, savages. The disgusting, subhuman culture that breeds people like this should be eradicated. How any group of people could find that enjoyable just baffles anyone with a normal functioning brain.
 

Lilo Prinz (24)
Sunday February 5, 2012, 2:11 pm
signed and shared!
 

Irene L. (0)
Sunday February 5, 2012, 2:19 pm
How can such atrocities still be allowed to happen in the 21st Century? Mankind truly is the most disgusting, sickening, cruel, sadistic barbaric species of all. And we call ourselves 'intelligent'?
 

Petra M. (10)
Sunday February 5, 2012, 2:34 pm
Signed and noted, thank you !
 

Sandy G. (35)
Sunday February 5, 2012, 2:43 pm
Signed!
 

Fred Krohn (29)
Sunday February 5, 2012, 3:02 pm
Gø%%@mn communists! We should storm the nation, kick the damn Chinese and Communists out, and finish that stupid war the Frenchies bagged us with right!
 

Marliese B. (26)
Sunday February 5, 2012, 3:42 pm
Thank you. Noted, signed and shared. No words to express my disgust!
What a cruel world we are living in!
 

Joy Mcronald (21)
Sunday February 5, 2012, 3:48 pm
I would love to tie their legs and arms and pull those asses all over the streets... How disgusting....
 

Nelson Baker (0)
Sunday February 5, 2012, 3:54 pm
Damn cruel idiots.
 

Kye J. (27)
Sunday February 5, 2012, 5:13 pm
Good comment Elaine.I agree.I am sick of Asias disgraceful treatment of animals.They should kill each other and much on each others flesh.Leave the poor animals alone.Bastards!!That poor pig.How horrific.The terror on his face!!!
 

Anne K. (107)
Sunday February 5, 2012, 6:10 pm
Signed petition and left comment. Thanks Cristina. I wonder though, how different is this from factory farming and transporting pigs from factory farms to slaughterhouses to be hung by a leg and have their throats slit? I hope everyone who is condemning this atrocity does not eat pigs and also condemns brutality to pigs in the USA.

 

Rooibos Bird (239)
Sunday February 5, 2012, 7:05 pm

Instant solution: BAN SLAVERY AND ENFORCE THE BAN FOR THE PROTECTION OF ALL LIFE!
 

Stuart Thomas (326)
Sunday February 5, 2012, 8:41 pm
The belief that doing such a cruel and heartless act to a defenseless and innocent pig "in the belief that it would bring luck." CAN BRING THEM LUCK ????????????

It can be frightening how cruel some people can be if they think what they are doing can benefit them
somehow, even if it severly hurts and even kills another sentient mammal.

WHAT THEY ARE DOING TO THE POOR PIG IS DISGUSTING AND IT SURE ISN'T LUCKY FOR THE POOR HELPLESS PIG, IS IT!!!!!!!!
 

Gloria Morotti (14)
Sunday February 5, 2012, 8:56 pm
This situatiion makes me not want to be alive on the planet. Can't this animal be slaughtered in a more humane way, at the very least???
 

Stuart Thomas (326)
Sunday February 5, 2012, 9:03 pm
Noted and signed the petition to which I also added my words.
 

Dogan Ozkan (5)
Sunday February 5, 2012, 10:03 pm
notedand signed
 

Parvez Zuberi (6)
Sunday February 5, 2012, 11:49 pm
Signed and noted thanks
 

Sharon T. (6)
Monday February 6, 2012, 2:13 am
signed, noted, shared... appalled!!!
 

Ruth S. (220)
Monday February 6, 2012, 7:21 am
Signed.

"To be kind is to be courageous
To be great is to be compassionate
To have love and reverence for all life including animals wild and domestic is to fully understand the purpose and divine nature of God"
Arthur Poletti
 

Isabelle J. (49)
Monday February 6, 2012, 7:31 am
Crazy!
 

Isabelle J. (49)
Monday February 6, 2012, 7:35 am
Signed!
 

Brenda Towers (0)
Monday February 6, 2012, 7:53 am
Noted and signed. Unbearable to watch!
 

Pier Luca F. (17)
Monday February 6, 2012, 10:51 am
Done ...You are signer #5046
 

Jennifer M. (78)
Monday February 6, 2012, 11:46 am
I am physically ill... This is absolutely horrible!!! I wish ALL animal abusers could feel the pain and fear they are inflicting on these poor, innocent animals. It won't be long before Mother Nature takes her planet back... Signed and noted. Thanks
 

Liliana D. (96)
Monday February 6, 2012, 12:17 pm
done, no comment ......
 

monka blanke (62)
Monday February 6, 2012, 3:00 pm
You are signer #5163. This is beyond +++ I don't find words... get sick to watch the horror on the poor pig's face ! Heaven forbid this !!
 

Alison A. (160)
Monday February 6, 2012, 3:43 pm
I have read some of the comments here, telling us to look at our own culture before we judge others.... NO! I wont!

This topic is about the grotesque slaughter of a pig in Vietnam, it is not about the bullfighting in Spain, it is not about fox hunting in England, it is not about seal hunting in Canada, nor is is about cock fighting, dog fighting, animal testing..... the list goes on...

And that is the point, their is cruelty all over the world, if we all argued that other countries acts are worse, then what are we ever going to get done to try and stop the torture? What are we even doing here?????

Each cause deserves its own platform, each animal needs us to give them a voice, not argue that their pain, fear and suffering is not as bad or as important as another's.

I don't care the cause of these animals suffering is done due to religion, law, neglect or just 'fun', they are still suffering, so they don't need people telling others to look at their own culture before they consider helping them.
 

Merv S. (3)
Tuesday February 7, 2012, 5:29 am
Elaine A. is right. Accusing her of being racist is just pathetic. Is it not true that Asians are responsible for these cruel atrocities? Regarding these crimes, racism doesn't come into it. It is Asians alone who are guilty! Defend that! Shucks! Was it unfair to to say Asians did this? Get a life, they did this! Get over it.
 

Elsa O. (1)
Tuesday February 7, 2012, 3:13 pm
bunch of bastards!!!
 

Terri Hughes (397)
Wednesday February 8, 2012, 1:26 pm
''SIGNED''.....this is the twentieth century, this bulls**t needs to STOP. All the abuse and cruelty in China NEEDS to end. This was HORRIBLE and to make matters worse, the poor pig was ALIVE when these DUMB ASSES killed him. CHINA....have a heart and STOP the CRUELTY AND ABUSE. Animals feel pain just like we do. Smearing your banknotes in blood is NOT going to make them go away or bring you good luck, so get your head out of your ass and pay your bills, just like everyone, else!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

Charlene Rush (14)
Thursday February 9, 2012, 10:15 pm
What is the level of education, with these inhuman people?
 

Susan S. (189)
Sunday February 19, 2012, 4:30 pm
There is something seriously wrong with people.
 

Shelly Peterson (187)
Saturday March 17, 2012, 5:38 pm
signed!
 
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