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WRITE THAILAND WEEKLY!
To complain about cruelty to animals in Thailand
please send email to
Mrs. Sudarat Keyuraphan
Member of Parliament
email sudarat@sudarat.com
According to Roger Lohanan, manager of the Thai Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, more than 500 dogs are violently slaughtered every week in rural Thailand as part of an international leather scam. These poor dogs are confined to crowded, filthy, and tiny bamboo pens before being killed and routinely go days without being fed. Many of them are beaten to death or are sliced with a knife and tied upside down from trees and left to bleed. Mr. Lohanan, who inspected one slaughterhouse, claims it sometimes takes up to twenty minutes for the dogs to die. The skins of these mistreated animals are then sold to many different countries and mislabeled as the cruel, yet more socially acceptable, "cow skin." Some of the leather sold in the U.S. is also made from horses, sheep, lambs, goats, and cats.
You can help. Stop buying garments, shoes, and accessories made from animal skin. When you buy leather, you cant tell where it came from or who it was made from all you can be sure of is that youre supporting an industry that profits from pain and suffering.
Please write to the Ambassador of Thailand to the United States, urging him to use the influence of his authority to stop the hideous slaughter of dogs for leather in his country.
Write Nitya Pibulsonggram of the Thai Embassy with this
letter or one of your own:
thai.wsn@thaiembdc.org
Date
His Excellency Nitya Pibulsonggram, Ambassador
The Royal Thai Embassy
1024 Wisconsin Ave., NW
Suite 401
Washington, DC 20007
RE: Stop the Killing
Dear Ambassador Nitya Pibulsonggram:
I am writing you regarding the slaughtering of dogs in
Thailand. I have seen evidence on television and the Worldwide
Web that domestic dogs are brutally killed for their skin, flesh,
and other body parts in your country.
The leather products from these poor creatures are then
exported to countries all over the world including the United
States, Canada and the UK. Consumers in these countries purchase
these leather and fur items unaware that what they are buying is
a direct result of the pain and suffering of innocent domestic
dogs.
Please be aware that until there is an end to the slaughtering
of dogs in Thailand, I will be writing you weekly, and
encouraging others to do so, to remind you of this cruel atrocity
happening every day in your country.
Please do something to stop this abominable slaughter of dogs
now! I cannot believe that as we enter the 21st century, this
type of barbaric practice still exists on this earth!
Sincerely,
Your Name
Address
Last updated 13/5/2000