From Occupy For Animals ~ Every year, at a village near Hanoi, a pig is brutally chopped into two so that people can smear banknotes with its blood in the belief that it would bring luck.
Thousands of people from the village and nearby villages will gather to smear the blood of the pig on their banknotes in the belief that it would bring luck in the new year. The festival is known as the most brutal in the country and is condemned by many, including some who called on the government to stop the festival.
Protest letter
to the Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam:
To whom it may concern
I wish to express my deep concern about animal cruelty being conducted in the name of tradition in Vietnam.
On 28th of January 2012 – like every year – citizens at Nem Thuong village have celebrated their cruel festival during which a pig is brutally chopped into two. Every year, thousands of people from the village and nearby villages gather to smear the blood of the pig on their banknotes in the belief that it would bring luck in the new year. The festival is known as the most brutal in your country and is condemned by many, including some who called already on your government to stop the festival.
No one can adequately explain why these practices are carried out year after year – except to say they are “traditional”. This however is not a valid argument to continue these practices.
I urge the Government of Vietnam to abolish the above practice for the following reasons:
1. It hurts the animals – contrary to what many believe, animals suffer tremendously before and during such festivals.
2. It hurts us – cruelty against animals harms society as a whole; it signals and normalizes insensitivity in children who can become numb to the suffering of living beings. It is also known to influence certain people to commit violence to other humans.
3. It is bad for tourism – as tourists are abhorred by such practices, the festival will have an adverse effect on tourism, an industry which provides the country with much-needed financial returns. Those foreigners who experience or come to know of this practice leave Vietnam confused and with a heavy heart, rather than uplifted by its paradoxical beauty and friendliness.
I implore you to end these violent practice and help Vietnam move
towards a truly peaceful country in keeping with its international image.
I trust that you will support these measures (which are becoming more widespread around the world) and thus promote non-violent cultural practices in Vietnam. Until such a time, however, I regret that it will be necessary to boycott Vietnam both as a tourist and by way of commerce and to encourage others to participate in a boycott as well.
Yours sincerely,
(your name here)
INSTRUCTIONS:
Please copy and paste the above text and send it to the Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam using their contact form on their website HERE.
You can also send an email to the embassy of Vietnam in your country, or to your country’s embassy in Vietnam. Email addresses can easily be found using the following online portal HERE.
Also, please SIGN Occupy For Animal’s ONLINE PETITION to be delivered to the Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam HERE.
Thank you very much for your signature and for speaking out against this brutal tradition.
From Occupy For Animals
First thing that came to my mind.. What the fuck? How can people be so inhumane?! Even as an Vietnamese, I am utterly disgusted and embarrassed that this festival exists and still occurs every year! How the fuck will chopping live animals into two make you fucking ‘lucky’?!!!! more like fucking low life murderes! This is a disgrace and fucking needs to be stopped immediately!!!!!!!! So fucking disgusted with this festival! Cutting live pigs isn’t so called ‘being lucky’, have some common sense you fucking dumb ass people!!!! Absolutely fucking ridiculous!!!!
STOP !!!!!!
Your ignorance is showing, its 2012, torturing a pig doesn’t bring you good luck, it brings Karma, payback, you will pay for your evil ways.
this is sickening and cruel and it must stop, full stop
stop it you ignorants
please…..stop it!!!!!!!!
To whom it may concern
I wish to express my deep concern about animal cruelty being conducted in the name of tradition in Vietnam.
On 28th of January 2012 – like every year – citizens at Nem Thuong village have celebrated their cruel festival during which a pig is brutally chopped into two. Every year, thousands of people from the village and nearby villages gather to smear the blood of the pig on their banknotes in the belief that it would bring luck in the new year. The festival is known as the most brutal in your country and is condemned by many, including some who called already on your government to stop the festival.
No one can adequately explain why these practices are carried out year after year – except to say they are “traditional”. This however is not a valid argument to continue these practices.
I urge the Government of Vietnam to abolish the above practice for the following reasons:
1. It hurts the animals – contrary to what many believe, animals suffer tremendously before and during such festivals.
2. It hurts us – cruelty against animals harms society as a whole; it signals and normalizes insensitivity in children who can become numb to the suffering of living beings. It is also known to influence certain people to commit violence to other humans.
3. It is bad for tourism – as tourists are abhorred by such practices, the festival will have an adverse effect on tourism, an industry which provides the country with much-needed financial returns. Those foreigners who experience or come to know of this practice leave Vietnam confused and with a heavy heart, rather than uplifted by its paradoxical beauty and friendliness.
I implore you to end these violent practice and help Vietnam move
towards a truly peaceful country in keeping with its international image.
I trust that you will support these measures (which are becoming more widespread around the world) and thus promote non-violent cultural practices in Vietnam. Until such a time, however, I regret that it will be necessary to boycott Vietnam both as a tourist and by way of commerce and to encourage others to participate in a boycott as well.
Yours sincerely,
Sha Arnold
This is a brutal and inhumane practice to a sentient being which has to be stopped NOW !!!
STOOOOOPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Stop it!
open your eyes and tell me what you see !