Monday, September 3, 2007

PIG OF GOD

Animal rights activists expressed outrage yesterday following the sacrificial killing of the "world’s heaviest pig" in Taiwan.

The annual Pig of God festival in Hsin Chu features a contest to determine the heaviest pig.
The winning pig is slaughtered according to religious ritual and paraded before a large crowd of festival goers.

This year’s "winner" had been force-fed sand and metal in order to attain a weight of 908 kg (nearly one ton).

Although the contest has been outlawed, police in Hsin Chu are hesitant to enforce the ban.

A spokesperson for the world Society for the Protection of Animals called the event a "grotesque freak show."
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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

THESE PEOPLE NEED HELP, OR GOD IS JUST a sick minded person. well lets face it people should be locked up for beliving in somthing you cannot see. i need say no more.