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A host of Indonesian and international stars have teamed up for a new video urging Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo to shut down the country’s inhumane and filthy live animal markets and put an end to the horrific dog and cat meat trade.
The Dog Meat Free Indonesia video features some of the country’s biggest celebrities, such as Chelsea Islan, Andovi da Lopez and Sarah Sechan, as well as international names like Dame Judi Dench, Ricky Gervais, Joanna Lumley and Rick Wakeman.
To coincide with the launch of the video, Dog Meat Free Indonesia presented its second open letter to President Jokowi, expressing serious concerns about the country’s live animal markets and dog and cat meat trades in light of the coronavirus pandemic.
“Despite the worsening situation of the pandemic globally and throughout Indonesia,” the letter reads, “with all 34 provinces now affected and over 14,000 coronavirus infections and nearly 1,000 deaths nationwide, the sale of wild animals including bats, rats, and reptiles alongside dogs and cats and other domesticated animals in markets throughout the country continues unchallenged.”
If these dangerous markets continue to operate, the world’s risk of another global pandemic is far greater.
“It is essential that governments around the world act to address the source of deadly zoonotic pathogens to ensure they are not the next point of origin for the next pandemic,” said Karin Franken, DMFI founding member and director at Jakarta Animal Aid Network. “Without proactive and stringent measures in place to prevent cruel animal trades and markets that provide the perfect breeding grounds for viruses and bacteria, the question is not whether another pandemic will emerge, but when.
“To date, the only actions taken by authorities in Indonesia are those of Surakarta city who, in a misguided bid to prevent the spread of COVID-19, confiscated hundreds of bats from traders at Depok Market and subsequently burned them alive,” she continued. “Such ignorant and cruel acts must never happen again, and we urge the authorities to take urgent but humane actions to protect human and animal health and welfare.”
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Maudits soient ces barbares!!!!!
Let’s HOPE the President listens to REASON and COMPASSION and SHUTS DOWN all DOG MEAT Farms — FOREVER — we need SANITY, MORALS and HEART — we MUST PROTECT our Dogs and Cats from this NEEDLESS trade.
tHESE PEOPLE MUST GET EDUCATED AND STOP THESE HEINOUS CRIMES ON ALL ANIMALS INCLUDING DOGS.
Thank you wonderful Lady Freethinker for all your coverage and exposure of animal welfare issues. You are a vital link in enlightenment towards a better world for all the creatures with which we share this glorious planet.
This night mare,has to end.for all animals.
This needs to stop! Animals have feelings too and we don’t need another pandemic!
Sorry I hit the wrong button by mistake so didn’t mean to report your comment as I completely agree with you!
This country needs to come into this century
I know what that country needs but would never voice it out loud as I’d probably be called a terroist by Taxinda!
Get them stopped forever. If corona doesn’t stop these vile people responsible we need to find something that will.
Please stop live animal trade and cat and dog meat trade!
Stop the animal slaughter and sale in wet markets NOW! We don’t want anymore corona virus! This is horrible to be killing animals, then it starts killing people. Don’t you understand the connection? Atrocious! Barbaric!
HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE 😡
Enforce tougher laws on animal cruelty. There is far too much animal cruelty. Why should an animal suffer in the wrong hands? Why should an animal be beaten and tortured? Enough is enough.
Stop dog and cat meat trade forever!
Disgraceful and inhumane!
Disgusting and inhumane. STOP IT NOW!
Pure evil and monsterous. This is such heartbreaking unnecessary killing of innocent animals and it has to stop. Why hasnt the world had enough and why hasnt it been stopped.
TO PRESIDENT JOKO WIDODO,
WE WANT TO SIGN THE PETITION TO CLOSE ALL ILLEGAL SELLING AND WET MARKET SELLING AND ILLEGAL TRADING AND KILLING OF ALL DOGS, CATS AND WILDLIFES IN EVERY PART OF INDONESIA.
SIGNED BY JOSEPHINE
SINGAPORE
JUST STOP ALL THIS SICK BARBARIC ABUSE!
Please Please close down your live animal markets and dog and cat meat markets.
Please protect our animals.
Personally I am more concerned for the animals than the people. We are a cruel, entitled, dangerous, and the ultimate invasive species.
No more inhumano wet markets. Show the world you are civilized.
I couldn’t watch the video because I’ve seen other clips on just how cruel Asian countries are towards animals! It’s so sickening that one finds oneself wishing harm on those people and countries which isn’t healthy but because one can’t do anything about what’s happening that’s the only way it would seem to vent anger. However, it never ceases to amaze me that these videos continue to be posted and if a person voices just how disgusted they are they can face prosecution, yet the perpetrators of animal cruelty run free! The right people need to be procecuted for once!
THESE PEOPLE ARE NOT HUMAN. TO TORTURE AND KILL ANIMALS LIKE THEY DO IS NOT NORMAL BEHAVIOUR !!
I’m sorry but I just can’t look at the video it just breaks my heart to see such inhumane people doing this to innocent animals.
Why is it so hard for these governments to abolish this horrific dog and cat meat trade? This needs to stop not only in Indonesia but worldwide, enough torture, abuse and slaughter of these animals.
Whats WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE!???!!!! THEY SHOULD BE PUT THROUGH THE TORTURE. AND WHOEVER IS FILMING THIS ATRACITY PLEASE DONT JUST STAND THIER, PLEASE HELP THOSE ANIMALS THAT ARE ALIVE. PLEASE.
End this NOW!!!
These people are sick and they should be stopped.
Too bad we can’t enforce “eye for an eye”!!
The human population is consuming pets and wildlife, meaning that there are too many human inhabitants. Birth control is critically needed, or the population will begin eating each other, which may not be such a bad thing. If so, do it now and skip the animals. They did not create the human problem.
Awesome. They should call on Cuomo and Trump to end new York live meat markets along with anywhere else they may be in the u.s.
Please stop thus utterly useless and unnecessary practice that nobody gains from.
Thank you Dame Judy and everyone. Please stop this cruelty now.
Thank you celebs for adding your names to this vile trade. I’m sure it will make a huge difference.
Live wet markets have to be stopped it’s do cruel
The whole idea of wetmarkets is abhorrent to any civilised person…..the torture & killing of these poor defenceless animals is incomprehensible! ! To breed any animal only to suffer a life of torment until the inevitable is sickening & unacceptable. People allowing, operating, & consuming these animals are all complicit & should be stopped & held accountable. The usual argument of it being part of a culture is not an excuse for torture & anyone involved cannot be regarded as civilised.
The whole idea of wetmarkets is abhorrent to any civilised person…..the torture & killing of these poor defenceless animals is incomprehensible! ! To breed any animal only to suffer a life of torment until the inevitable is sickening & unacceptable. People allowing, operating, & consuming these animals are all complicit & should be stopped & held accountable. The usual argument of it being part of a culture is not an excuse for torture & anyone involved cannot be regarded as civilised.
PLEASE STOP!
PLEASE STOP!
End these filthy, horrifying wet markets in Indonesia and across the world!!
End these filthy, horrifying wet markets in Indonesia and across the world!!
Stopp denne torturen av dyr!!!
This virus was man made and released into the Wuhan Market. I can’t prove it but I believe it. No other pandemic in living memory has caused the near total collapse of the economy.
“I can’t prove it but I believe it” Scientists around the world have proven that the virus emerged from the horrific wet markets…………are you a scientist?
Well, while I like the idea of stopping the live trade of wet markets for fear of spreading Covid19, the reality is, in my mind, the Chinese retaliated against Trump for calling them to attention, hence Covid19 was unleashed agaisn’t the world! People, just think about it…this virus has spread to every continent, survived any temperature and anywhere! Just pause for a moment and let that sink in. I’d love to end animal cruelty since China behaves in a disgusting manner against human and animals but Covid 19 is engineered and I wish I could prove this but it’s a gut feeling and who can trust a gut? What’s even more criminal is that the Chinese will get away with their behaviour and some governments will strive forwards with full knowledge of the truth! I just hope those governments are more clever than the Chinese!
Please End It Now.
Why are human beings so cruel? They seem completely incapable of placing themselves in the position of the harmless animal that they should never have harvested in the first place and them disposed of by burning them alive. This will do wonders for Indonesia’s tourist trade.
Why are human beings so cruel? They seem completely incapable of placing themselves in the position of the harmless animal that they should never have harvested in the first place and them disposed of by burning them alive. This will do wonders for Indonesia’s tourist trade.
OMG!! Humans DO NOT BELONG ON PLANET EARTH! We’re a despicable species! Shame on the human race!!!