Buddhist temple abbot wants dog meat taken off menu

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Kim Bartlett <ANPEOPLE

Wed Oct 29, 2003 5:20 pm

Chiang Mai, Thailand, 10/29/03: Buddhist

temple abbot wants dog meat taken off menu

anpeople

 

 

This is in the extreme north, near Laos.

 

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The Nation, Bangkok October 29, 2003

 

CHIANG MAI: Abbot wants dog meat taken off menu

 

The abbot of a local temple yesterday called on San Pa

Tong district

residents to stop killing and eating dogs.

 

" I would like to beg for their lives, " said Phra

Pornpisit Thammatharo

of Wat Sawang Arom. He said he was worried that many

stray dogs would

be killed for their meat this winter, since the

district's residents

believe it keeps them warm.

 

Phra Pornpisit said he realised this was an age-old

practice in the

area, but killing animals was a sin for Buddhists.

 

Animal-rights activist Rossukhon Jarassri said she had

learned that

some 30,000 dogs had recently been captured, ready to

be slaughtered

this winter.

 

 

 

 

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