AR-News: (NZ) Concerns grow over animals buried alive enmass

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Tuesday, 17 February 2004, 5:55 pm
Press Release: World Society for the Protection of Animals 
Concerns grow over animals buried alive in mass graves 
International charity the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) 
has received worrying reports from its Asian member societies and other 
sources about the inhumane ways in which poultry are killed during efforts to deal 
with the avian flu outbreak. 
These reports include chickens often buried alive in mass graves in countries 
across Asia; in South Korea and Vietnam, tens of thousands have been beaten 
with iron bars or sticks before being buried; chickens in China have been set 
on fire whilst still alive and, in Taiwan, chickens have been poisoned and then 
buried. 
Millions of poultry have already been handled and slaughtered with little 
regard for their welfare. The international bodies responsible for handling this 
outbreak, FAO (UN’s Food & Agriculture Organisation), OIE (World Animal Health 
Organisation) and WHO (World Health Organisation), have so far neglected to 
address the issue of animal welfare.




full story:

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0402/S00152.htm 

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