Sign up with GooglePerhaps this is more philosophical than natural sciences (I can't post to the philosophy thread?) but how do we in SA treat our domestic and other animals?
A couple of weeks ago a stray dog called Warrior was almost buried alive at a school in Khayelitsha by school janitors after the principal told them to attend to the nuisance been created by the dog. He denies giving the instruction. A volunteer at the school reported it to a local animal clinic, whose staff rescued the dog in time.
A prominent advocate wrote to the Cape Times and criticized the the governing party in the Western Cape, Democratic Alliance, for failing to act regarding sterilising animals, thereby helping create a situation where mass euthanasia is taking place. In a followup letter he said without a mass sterilisation programme, supported by authorities, organisations like the SPCA are 'making a living' out of killing animals. Harsh words and perhaps unfair but anyone who has read JM Coetzee's 'Disgrace' will understand.
In the link below the advocate states the national draft animal care policy may have stalled - an 'impasse' - because of the Zulu customary practice of young men killing a bull with their bare hands. He says the DA does not have an animal care policy. But dose any party? Is life in SA so disposable - newborn babies dumped, terrible murders daily - that care of animals is the last thing on our minds? Is this what we want for ourselves? Are the events foretold in Disgrace true. Is this the nation we want to lie in?
http://www.ifaisa.org/Animal_Welfare_Policy,_the_Western_Cape.html
A couple of weeks ago a stray dog called Warrior was almost buried alive at a school in Khayelitsha by school janitors after the principal told them to attend to the nuisance been created by the dog. He denies giving the instruction. A volunteer at the school reported it to a local animal clinic, whose staff rescued the dog in time.
A prominent advocate wrote to the Cape Times and criticized the the governing party in the Western Cape, Democratic Alliance, for failing to act regarding sterilising animals, thereby helping create a situation where mass euthanasia is taking place. In a followup letter he said without a mass sterilisation programme, supported by authorities, organisations like the SPCA are 'making a living' out of killing animals. Harsh words and perhaps unfair but anyone who has read JM Coetzee's 'Disgrace' will understand.
In the link below the advocate states the national draft animal care policy may have stalled - an 'impasse' - because of the Zulu customary practice of young men killing a bull with their bare hands. He says the DA does not have an animal care policy. But dose any party? Is life in SA so disposable - newborn babies dumped, terrible murders daily - that care of animals is the last thing on our minds? Is this what we want for ourselves? Are the events foretold in Disgrace true. Is this the nation we want to lie in?
http://www.ifaisa.org/Animal_Welfare_Policy,_the_Western_Cape.html
