Hong Kong's Brutal Purge of 40,000+ Pigs

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HONG KONG GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS
Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (AFCD)
5/F, Cheung Sha Wan Government Offices
303 Cheung Sha Wan Road; Kowloon
24-hour interactive hotline: 852-2708-8885, to speak to operator your call� will be transferred to "1823 Citizen's Easy Link" � fax: 852-2311-3731 � email: mailbox@afcd.gov.hk
SOURCE URL: http://www.afcd.gov.hk/english/contactus/ contactus.html
KEY FIGURES:

Mrs. Stella HUNG, JP, Director of Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation

Mr. LAU Sin Pang, JP, Deputy Director of Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation

Mr. LIU Kwei Kin, Agriculture Branch, Assistant Director

Dr. Anthony James, Chairman, Animal Welfare Advisory Group - To advise the Director of

Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation on matters concerning animal welfare

Food and Environmental Hygiene Department, Headquarters
44/F Queensway Government Offices
66 Queensway, Hong Kong
fax: 2869 0169 � email: enquiries@fehd.gov.hk
Web complaint/query form: http://www.fehd.gov.hk/comments/qform2.html
SOURCE URL: http://www.fehd.gov.hk/comments/contact_us.html

Mr. York Chow, Secretary for Health, Welfare and Food Bureau ��
19/F, Murray Building; Garden Road, Hong Kong
ph: (852) 29738284, (852) 21892748 � fax: (852) 25413352, (852) 28400467

email: enquiry@hwfb.gov.hk
SOURCE URL: http://www.hwfb.gov.hk/en/contact_us/enquiry/

New Territories North Animal Management Centre
13 Jockey Club Road; Sheung Shui, N.T.
SOURCE URL: � www.afcd.gov.hk/english/ quarantine/qua_awc/qua_awc_ac/qua_awc_ac_dog/qua_awc_ac_dog.html

Mr. So Ying Kiu, Chairman
Hong Kong Livestock Industry Association
No. 5, G/F., Pau Cheung Square
Yuen Long; New Territories
ph: (852) 2474 3630 � fax: (852) 2442 1695

Hong Kong Government Secretariat (Policy Bureaux), Chief Secretary: cso@cso.gov.hk
Hong Kong Tourism Commission:�tcenq@edlb.gov.hk
Government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in Beijing:�bjohksar@bjo-hksarg.org.cn

CHINESE GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS
His Excellency, Hu Jintao, President of the People's Republic of China
9 Xihuang-Chenggen Beijie
Beijing, Peoples Republic of China
email: info@cppcc.gov.cn, info@china.org.cn

Chinese Government's Official Web Portal: english@mail.gov.cn
National Government: govonline@chinascape.cn.net
Supreme People's Procuratorate of China: webmaster@spp.gov.cn
Xinhua News Agency: xhszbs@xinhuanet.com

China Internet Information Center� [authorized government portal site to China]
24 Baiwanzhuang Road
Beijing 100037, China
ph: 86-10-68996217 � fax: 86-10-68997796 � email: wandi@china.org.cn, webmaster@china.org.cn
web email feedback: http://service.china.org.cn/link/wcm/comments_e
SOURCE URL: http://www.china.org.cn/english/index.htm

The National People's Congress (NPC) of the People's Republic of China
Wu Bangguo, Chairman of the Standing Committee of the 10th National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China; No. 23, Xijiaominxiang
Xicheng District, Beijing 100805, The People's Republic of China
email: english@npc.gov.cn
SOURCE URL: http://www.npc.gov.cn/zgrdw/english/home/contactUs.jsp

Ministry of Foreign Affairs Of The People's Republic Of China
Mr. Li Zhaoxing, Minister of Foreign Affairs
No. 2, Chaoyangmen Nandajie
Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100701
ph: 86-10-65961114 � email: webmaster@mfa.gov.cn
SOURCE URL: http://www.fmprc.gov.cn/eng/

Ministry of Agriculture, People's Republic of China: webmaster@agri.gov.cn
Ministry of Health, People's Republic of China: zxc@szhealth.gov.cn ,
manage@chsi.moh.gov.cn, manage@moh.gov.cn
SOURCE URL: http://www.moh.gov.cn/

China National Tourism Administration
9A Jianguomennei Ave., Beijing 100740, China
ph: (0086-10) 65201114 � fax: (0086-10) 65122096

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SAMPLE LETTER�

Honorable Government Officials:

As news of Hong Kong's mass pig extermination travels the globe, the public is outraged by accounts of shrieking animals left to die on floors soaked in blood and brain matter. In the government's rush to phase-out pig farming licenses, it has ordered the massacre of 40,000 or more breeder pigs. Authorities assured farmers their surrendered pigs would be "humanely destroyed."

Instead, the government hopes to meet its year-end deadline with gunshot-style killing inside the New Territories North Animal Management Centre of the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (AFCD).

As described in press reports, "A shooter with ear-shields on, holding a Remington shotgun, was standing on a concrete platform three feet high above the pigs. 'Bang!' Another pig fell to the ground. Although shot in the head, the pig was still struggling hard, rolling from side to side with the pain. The shooter did not give him a follow-up shot." Some pigs agonize for five or more minutes before succumbing to their wounds.

Animals shudder in the corner of the killing room, forced to watch the shooter hook his next pig. This constitutes needless torment. In fact, the daily massacres are so inhumane officials have outsourced killers to replace government veterinarians who refused to participate.
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Once again, I respectfully ask Chinese officials to make enforceable animal protection laws a priority before the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.

The mass killing of pigs without electric stunning violates China's "Prevention Of Cruelty To Animals Ordinance," which stipulates an animal must not be "tortured or terrified." Fully alert, bullet-riddled pigs are clearly "tortured and terrified." Food and Environmental Department (FEHD) slaughterhouse regulations call for pigs to never endure unnecessary pain.

Photos and eyewitness descriptions show these pigs do not experience instantaneous death. This is hardly an "internationally accepted method of euthanizing pigs." It is morally and legally reprehensible.

If this brutal extermination of pigs continues, it will irreversibly shame China and the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. What China saves in cheap, crude kill methods � it loses in revenue from Chinese tourism and products. I stand firm in my boycott of Chinese travel and goods until authorities implement significant reforms for pigs, dogs, cats, bears and all animals.

Thank you for accepting my comments on this matter of international concern.

Sincerely,