DAC—A Nightmarish Contemporary Concentration Camp

Animal control—the euphemism for massacre of helpless life forms—has been taken to the utmost level of abuse and cruelty by a place where helpless dogs are captured, imprisoned, abused, and killed with no regard for ethics and even court orders. Welcome to the earthly hell for homeless dogs, aka the Detroit Animal Control (DAC).

The horrors of this entity continue to come to the surface after its reckless killing of a stray pit bull named ‘Ace’ that had the fateful chance to come across the DAC staff that captured it outside a hardware store and imprisoned it as per state law: capture homeless pit bulls (again the breed which suffers without reason just like Jews suffered at the hands of Nazis in World War 2) and if their owners are not found in a short time, kill them. These captured dogs are not handed over to anybody—individuals or rescue groups. They are sentenced to death for the simple reason that they are not lucky enough to have an owner.

In the case of Ace’s killing, DAC did what made people cry and condemn the animal control body for its insensitivity, defiance if law, fraud, and cruelty. Owing to appeals from all over the county as well as other parts of the world to spare Ace’s life and give it over for adoption to a rescue group or any of the numerous people asking to adopt him, the Wayne County Court ordered DAC not to kill Ace. But the dog-killers did what they had to do. Ace was literally executed, and with such secrecy that it made the animal control sound like a cult given to murdering dogs with the curtains closed.

Not only did DAC disobey the court order but so daringly (read shamelessly) assumed the position that they never received the court order while Corbett O’Meara has told media that he himself delivered the court injunction to DAC and is now going to sue the animal control for illegally killing the animals. There is a lot more to this story of a helpless dog whose life was savagely destroyed by his captors and who is now being remembered with teary eyes by so many advocates of protecting life. At least one first-hand witness who has been at DAC to see Ace has described a horrific instance of cruelty to little puppies and there is evidence claimed by more than one person that Ace was killed a number of days earlier than declared by the DAC.

Ignoring court orders and killing a dog despite repeated appeals with the pseudo-reasoning that if they grant this animal’s life, they’ll have to spare all, DAC undoubtedly qualifies for being marked as a contemporary concentration camp right in America—a bunch of dog killers who can eat and sleep well with hands all red in innocent blood. Let us strongly condemn this barbarianism. Please contact the mayor of Detroit and ask for justice in the form of closure of this dog concentration camp, investigation of Ace’s killing, and maximum possible punishment for the culprits found guilty of cruelty to dogs.

It’s time to stop sadistic killing of dogs under the senseless rubric of animal control. Let’s control the killers!

Stop the Cruel Sport of Bullfighting!

Some cultures are bathed in the blood of animals, whether in form of mass slaughter to commemorate myths and traditions of sacrifice, or for the sake of mere entertainment. Of the latter, bullfighting is the most infamous example. Killing bulls in front of audience is just one horrific side of this brutality visible to the spectator. What is hidden is the intense physical abuse of the bulls, prior to letting them out in the field for the show, in order to make them aggressive and make the inhuman show possible.

Countries like France and Spain try to justify the cruel practice of bullfighting by calling it a kind of cultural heritage. But is it? Can something that provides entertainment by abusing innocent animals be a cultural heritage? If so, maybe it’s time to end this diseased part of the culture.

Care2 is hosting a petition to urge UNESCO for stop considering it cultural heritage as it is sheer cruelty inflicted on bulls, resulting the annual killing of almost 250, 000 bulls. Please sign the petition to say NO to this abuse masked as culture.

Thank you!

Stop Sadistic Ukrainian Teenager Killing Stray Dogs

One of the most terrible cases of sadistic killing of dogs has surfaced in Ukraine in the form of a 19-year-old guy who is hunting stray dogs to capture and kill them by putting them through most brutal torture. The killer named Alexey Vedulu is said to have killed over 100 dogs and puppies by various torture-filled methods. He is still at large and doesn’t care about law, which in his part of the world is too loose to scare him into sparing dogs.

Alexey Vedulu started posting photos and videos of his victim dogs on the Internet in October 2011, and attracted attention of animal rights activist. However, his story has not been covered by any major media source. According to authorities in his city of residence Kiev, Vedulu was injured by some stray dog in his childhood. Since then he has been obsessed with revenge on dogs and is now a compulsive dog killer. He plans new methods of torture-killing dogs by discussing with friends. Killing helpless dogs is his cruel obsession.

A petition has been created to get Vedulu arrested and prosecuted for brutal, gratuitous killings of dogs. The petition urges the Ukrainian President to take notice of Vedulu’s crimes and order his arrest before he can spell more innocent blood.

Thanking Vegetarians on Eid—the Day of Slaughter

Note: This blog post is for the vegetarian community only. If you are not a vegetarian, don’t read further.

Today, hundreds of millions of people of Muslim faith across the globe are celebrating Eid-ul-Azha, commemorating the story of Abraham’s sacrifice (of his own son, per religious tradition) by ritualistic slaughter of millions of animals they would eat, and waste. Considered a fundamental festival (as it is called) of the Islamic world, the occasion stretches over 3 days of slaughter, eating and greeting. But is there any point in killing animals when vegetarian food is available? Certainly not!

Slaughtering animals for food shows disrespect to life and Eid-ul-Azha is one of the classic manifestations of this attitude. Not only is this cruel festival responsible for killing innocent animals for superstition but also it kills the spirit of true sacrifice—the kind in which you will eat less to feed a hungry animal; abstain from luxury to save money for a poor one’s food or shelter; and above all, feel for other’s pain. Is Eid-ul-Azha capable of bringing about this kind of compassion to its followers? It does the opposite: by letting you kill life, it gives you an okay signal to your destructive instinct.

There are some caring and daring people who, even in places like Pakistan, express their disgust of the occasion rationally. An article that made my day is up here. Standing aloof and steering clear of any bloodshed, I want to thank all vegetarians for staying loyal to life. Let’s get to prepare ourselves some vegan stuff now!