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Helena Harrington <largibbon

Re: Saint Bernards

Wed, 05 Feb 2003 07:59:35 +0100

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I am more and more in the mood to try once to eat dog-meat, if you are

torturing us all the time

with this letter-campagne. I don't know anybody

here around our place, who is eating dogs. And if: What would be so shocking

about that? What makes

dogs and cats to better animals than cows

and chicken??? I think it is important, to treat the animals right if they

are alive. But I don't

have problems if people eat them. If you are so strictly

against eating dogs and cats, I think you should stop to eat animals at all.

 

Do you have any facts about the dog-eating people in Switzerland? I would be

very interested,

because I have never heard about it. Perhaps you have wrong informations???

In which part do they

live?

 

And by the way: Is a Saint Bernard a better dog than an other one?

 

Don't you think that we have bigger problems in the world at the moment?

 

Blanca Imboden

 

 

Helena Harrington wrote:

 

> Dear Councillor,

>

> I was both shocked and horrified to learn that some Cantons in

> Switzerland are killing and eating their dogs, including the Saint

> Bernards, of which your country is so proud.

>

> This atrocious situation must be urgently addressed. I understand (and

> do not condone) that some Asians carry out this type of barbarity on

> domesticated companion animals who serve mankind faithfully, but to hear

> that this practise survives in modern Switzerland is totally

unacceptable.

>

> Whilst I understand that Switzerland is not a part of any trading

> federation per se, you must be aware that your closest neighbours are

> the European Union. Every Member Country of the EU has banned the

> consumption of dog and cat meat. Should Switzerland at any time in the

> future wish to join the EU (or any other trading federation), I will

> actively campaign to deny your membership whilst you permit such

> abominations to take place within your country.

>

> There is no excuse whatsoever for this practice to continue and I

> respectfully demand that your Government pass legislation in the very

> near future to make it illegal to slaughter dogs for human consumption.

>

> I always believed that Switzerland was in every respect a model country

> even in its animal welfare laws. Actually Switzerland is reputable for

> having some of the best animal welfare laws in Europe. Apparently you

> forgot to include in these laws the protection of dogs.

>

> Switzerland has always been renown for it's humanitarianism. I beg you

> not to allow this image of your nation to become tarnished.

>

> Yours sincerely

> Helena Harrington

> Melbourne, Australia

>

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