Received this in email….Well done PETA…at last the courts are taking this despicable act of cruelty, seriously!
Dear Julie,
For three years, PETA Asia has been working with authorities in the Philippines to help them find and prosecute the makers of horrific “crush” videos in which scantily clad girls (one as young as 12 years old) are filmed stepping, standing and stamping on and slowly crushing animals – from the smallest of mice to large dogs who are tied down and helpless.
Now PETA Asia’s efforts to shut down the makers of these sick fetish videos have resulted in a landmark ruling against those who tortured and killed puppies, rabbits and other animals.
This huge victory began with a single compassionate person who stumbled upon these vile videos and took the time to report them to PETA Asia, which then worked with the help of authorities to ensure that the Ridons were located, investigated, arrested, prosecuted and ultimately sentenced for their crimes. PETA Asia hired one of the top law firms in the country to assist the prosecutor, thereby ensuring that the case was given full attention. The group also stands ready to fight an appeal.
In videos made by the Ridons, one dog is skinned alive and another is burned with a clothes iron. Rabbits flail and scream while their ears are cut off or they’re set on fire. One video shows a puppy who is crushed until the animal vomits up internal organs. The Ridons’ long sentence is a warning to anyone involved in the vile crush video industry that there are grave consequences for harming animals.
Their sentence is also a powerful reminder of PETA Asia’s commitment to helping animals no matter how long it takes. Thank you for all you do for animals in need. Compassionate people like you are helping PETA and our international affiliates save animals’ lives.
“Keeping fingers crossed & saying prayers for poor Mali. I hope she soon gets to live as an elephant should, surrounded by others. Elephants do not thrive in a zoo environment, nothing is better for an elephant or any wild elephant to be & stay wild; just as God intended. Watch a video of Mali at the end of this post”
Mali the elephant is the only one of her kind in the Philippines
She has spent the last 33 years alone in a concrete pen at Manila Zoo
Campaigners want to send the elderly elephant to a sanctuary in Thailand
Campaigners are calling on the Filipino government to free the country’s only elephant and allow her to be sent to Thailand to spend her final years among her own kin after three decades of solitude.
Mali the elephant has spent 35 years in a barren concrete pen at the Manila Zoowithout any inter-species contact and only a small pool to entertain her.
A celebrity backedPETAcampaign is now demanding that the elderly elephant’s years of loneliness come to an end and that she is reunited with other elephants at a sanctuary in Thailand.
On my own: Mali is the only elephant in the Philippines and has been living alone for 33 years
Mali was torn from her mother in Sri Lanka at the age of three and sent to the Philippines as a gift to then–president Ferdinand Marcos in 1977.
She has since spent her days in loneliness and boredom in the small enclosure at the zoo in the capital and is reportedly suffering from a number of ailments as a result of her captivity and age.
Old and lonely: Mali in the barren concrete pen which has been her home since 1977 when she was sent to the Philippines from Sri Lanka aged 3
Efforts to ‘deport’ Mali have increased in recent weeks as more groups have joined the campaign, backed by several celebrities including film diva Brigitte Bardot, artist Morrissey and Nobel laureate J.M Coetzee.
They propose the lonely lady be sent to The Thai Elephant Conservation Centre inLampang province, to be with an estimated 50 elephants in a forest setting.
Open wide: Mali is examined by veterinarians brought in by campaigners to establish if the 38-year-old is well enough to travel to the Thai sanctuary.
Vets found that the elderly elephant suffers from severe depression, as a result of her years of isolation, and also have foot problems which pose a grave risk to her physical health.
Former Senator Juan Miguel Zubiri, the convenor of campaign group Pilipinas Ecowarriors, said in a statement to local on Tuesday: ‘Assuming Mali is fit to make the trip to Thailand, she would be better off in a designated sanctuary, rather than kept in a zoo here.’
Representatives from PETA Asia flew in a specialist elephant physician who concluded that her isolation is causing Mali ‘intense mental suffering’ and that her physical health is at risk as a result of her severe foot problems.
Philippine President Benigno Aquino personally entered the debate last week. He issued orders to the Protected Areas and Wildlife Bureau and the Department of Agriculture’s Bureau of Animal Industry to see if Mali could even travel.
The groups have begun asking about animal quarantine in Thailand, and whether Mali could even make the trip.
A spokesman for PETA in London said: ‘PETA Asia has been campaigning for an end to Mali’s suffering, but has been met with resistance at every step of the way.
‘After receiving a letter from famed musician Morrissey, Philippines PresidentBenigno Aquino III issued a directive stating that Mali’s health should be evaluated and she should be considered for transfer to a sanctuary.
‘Following this ground-breaking directive, PETA Asia flew in elephant expert Dr Henry MelvynRichardson to examine Mali.
‘Dr Richardson’s report indicates that Mali’s confinement to a concrete enclosure has led to severe foot problems – the leading cause of death among captive elephants.
‘Not only is Mali’s physical health at risk if she continues to stay at an institution that lacks the resources and knowledge to care for her properly but her isolation from other elephants is causing her intense mental suffering.’
Although Asian elephants can live to be up to 60-70 years in freedom, zoo animals rarely pass 20 years of age due to stress, obesity and lack of exercise.
PETA Asia say Mali needs to be retired ‘without delay’ and reports that the The Thai Elephant Conservation Centre have offered a place for Mali as soon as the Filipino government agree on her release.
PETA use this video to emphasise the repetition of Mali’s life
Update on Kabang, this news is not good but vets are hopeful she will pull through. What an amazing dog, to lose half her face then suffer with a tumour & heartworm. I just hope this further set back will not lessen her zest for life. God bless her, my prayers & thoughts are with Kabang & the surgeons who everyone is looking to, to give this sweet girl her face back.
A courageous dog who became an international hero after losing her nose saving two young girls, has had her muzzle-surgery postponed after it was discovered she needs chemo.
Kabang the dog won celebrity status when she jumped in front of a speeding motorcycle to save her owner’s young daughter and niece, but lost her upper jaw in the process.
After local veterinarians failed to help her, the dog was flown to the U.S. where her doctors now say she needs treatment forheart worm and chemotherapy before she can undergo facial reconstruction.
Helping a hero: Kabang’s facial surgery has been postponed after veterinarians at University of California at Davis discovered a vaginal tumour and heartworm
After the accident her owner was told by Filipino veterinarians he should put her down, but he refused.
Kabang’s plight reached Karen Kenngott, a critical care nurse from Buffalo, New York, who set up a charity campaign to help.
Care For Kabang raised over $20,000 from 22 countries to cover the costs of surgeries, visas and airfare.
She was flown to the University of California at Davis for specialist treatment to the wound on her face, where doctors discovered a tumour and the heartworm
The veterinarians are ‘cautiously optimistic’ that Kabang will make a full recovery and return to the Philippines, Dr. Jane Sykes of the University hospital said.
‘She’s a very sweet dog and everyone here became attached to her quite quickly,’ the director of the facility’s small animal clinic said.
‘We’re eager to help her get better.’
The horrific accident occurred in December 2011 when the daughter of Kabang’s owner, nine-year-old Dina Bunggal, and her cousin three-year old Princess Diansing, were playing with the dog in Zamboanga City, Philippines.
The girls were crossing a busy street when a motorcycle came speeding right towards them.
Eyewitnesses said that Kabang appeared out of nowhere and threw herself in front the vehicle just before it hit the two children.
Kabang’s face became tangled in the spokes of the bike’s wheel, and her entire upper jaw was torn off.
Kabang, who became a mother to six little puppies in April this year, had a rough start in life when Dina’s father Rudy found her abandoned in a rice paddy.
He brought the dog home to fatten her up and feed her to the family, but his daughter and niece convinced him to spare Kabang and keep her as a pet – a lucky move for both dog and family.
Once recovered from the chemotherapy and heartworm treatment, Kabang will undergo dental surgery and facial reconstruction.
Her veterinarians at U.C. at Davis have said there are no plans to give her a prosthetic nose to replace the one she lost.
Grateful dog: Kabang was found in a rice paddy as a puppy and was nearly killed for meat, but her owner’s daughter and niece pleaded for her life
UC Davis examined Kabang this morning. Great news! They are confident they can help her. UC Davis VMTH has created a special section of their website devoted to Kabang. It will be continuously updated with the latest news on Kabang. Check it out:
“I have prayed since the day I first saw Kabang in a News paper last year. I’m thrilled she is actually here & I can see the donation I made was & is being used for it’s intended purpose! Will keep up the prayers until kabang is ready to go back home, God bless her!”
Almost a year ago, a dog named Kabang lost her snout and upper jaw when she leapt in front of a motorcycle to save two little girls in the Philippines.
Today veterinary specialists at theUniversity of California, Davis, examined Kabang to determine what can be done to give her a better chance at a long and healthy life.
During the hour long, preliminary exam, veterinary surgeons Boaz Arzi and Frank Verstraeteassessed Kabang’s overall condition and conducted blood and urine tests.“We are pleased with what we discovered today,” Verstraete said. “We are confident we can improve her condition going forward.” Added Arzi: “Kabang has suffered catastrophic injuries to her face.
While we had consulted over photos and video, we were not able to make a proper determination of the care we would be able to offer Kabang until we examined her in person.”
To reduce the chance of infection and minimize stress for Kabang, the dog will not be available to the news media at this point. A written statement from the veterinary team, B-roll and Kabang’s arrival and initial examination at UC Davis will be available later today in an online press kit.
Verstraete and Arzi are members of the dentistry and oral surgery service faculty at UC Davis’ William R. Pritchard Veterinary MedicalTeaching Hospital. The hospital has the most comprehensive dental and oral surgery service of any veterinary teaching hospital in the world, providing surgery for dogs, cats and other animal species.
Arzi and Verstraete are now consulting with Anton Mari H. Lim, Kabang’s veterinarian from the Philippines, to develop a treatment plan for Kabang.
Based on preliminary discussions, Arzi and Verstraete anticipate that Kabang will need at least two surgeries. The first likely would focus on dental work. The second would attempt to close the gaping wound on the dog’s face, protecting her from infection and improving her quality of life.
Kabang is expected to be at UC Davis for at least six weeks.
Contrary to some rumours in the media, there are no plans to fit Kabang with a “prosthetic snout” or to replace her jaw.
An independent, international donation campaignraised the money to bring Kabang and Lim to the United States for a consultation with veterinary reconstructive surgery specialists at UC Davis. Kabang and Lim landed at Los Angeles International Airport late Monday night and arrived in Davis on Tuesday.
The veterinary hospital’s website includes background information on Kabang’s story and will feature continual updates about her care and progress
“Update on beautiful Kenneth….Oh this truly is wonderful to see, I knew they would be able to repair his face & make him beautiful again. I made a small donation via ChipIn, it’s so gratifying to see that any money donated has been spent on making Kenneth beautiful again of course there is all the after care medications to think of too. If surgery is done Pro-Bono, then donations will be used for medical attention, medications, supplies etc. Thank you to anyone who donated, doesn’t it feel great to know you played a small part in making his surgery possible; & giving Kenneth his life back. Not sure if he will remain with the person that rescued him.
“Now all they need to do is find the evil POS that did this to Kenneth!”
“Kenneth send his LOVE to all who made this possible!”
ERRATUM: the date on the PHOTO should be October 9, 2012, NOT as posted as October “7”. We sincerely apologize for the error.
Kenneth’s first PUBLIC post surgery photo. Taken October 9, 2012. 16 Hours After his successful re-constructionsurgical operation (surgery was made on October 8, 2012; around 6PM PH Time, +8 GMT).
Kenneth after surgery!
This is the SAME photo we have furnished the press/media today October 9,2012. we fervently hope for the understanding of the press for not letting them go inside Kenneth’s recovery room. we refrained unnecessary visits of Kenneth to avoid changes in his stress level.
UPDATE Oct. 9 , 2012; 11AM PH TIME (+8 GMT) Statement from Nena Hernandez, IRO President: Post surgical update on Kenneth: He ate very well this morning. Kenneth tried to take off his bandages and in the process some of his stitches got out.
He is using an Elizabethan collar so that he doesn’t attempt to remove any more stitches. He is also being sedated to facilitate his healing. He is breathing through one nostril because the other nostril is swollen. Once the swelling subsides, he will be able to breath through that nostril.
He is getting annoyed of the process, again which is normal and a good sign, but Doc Ivy said he is a good boy. No personal visits of Kenneth is allowed except IRO (Island Rescue Organization) and CSDC (Cebu South Dog Club) officers. There is a press conference tomorrow October 10, 2012 @4PM in Animal Wellness Veterinary Clinic.
“Please note, out of hundreds of pictures & countless videos, I have tried to be as discreet as possible with images of Kabang…I know it’s not pleasant to see her injuries, but when you’re loved, like she is, it doesn’t matter what you look like. Kabang really is one in a million & very, very lucky…she was actually meant for the cooking pot!”
This past February, a family dog in the Philippines was credited with saving two children from getting hit by a speeding motorcycle, by throwing herself in the path of the bike.
The dog named Kabang lost the top part of her jaw and face. It was a horrific injury, but she survived. A local vet asked the family to turn over the dog to their custody for euthanasia. But the grateful family refused to put down the loyal and pregnant dog. Kabang has since given birth to her six puppies.
When people heard about Kabang’s courageous actions and her plight, there was outpouring of goodwill and concern for the dog. This week it was announced that Kabang will be flown to the United States so she can undergo reconstructive surgery, in order to survive.
According to the Inquirer Global Nation, a group of veterinarians, animal lovers and humanitarian groups helped raise enough money to organize the trip and surgery.
“Kabang is going to the US with the help of many kind-hearted individuals and donors, who would like to see the dog…live longer. Her story inspired many people especially animal lovers,” veterinarian Dr. Anton Lim said, citing a confirmation from Ramona Consunji of the Animal Welfare Coalition.
The plan is to fly Kabang over to the US within the month. Karen Kenngott, the US coordinator for Animal Welfare Coalition, said: “The more time that goes by, the more Kabang is at risk of infection. Fungal infections can be especially difficult to eradicate and any infection in the bone can be a lengthy process to treat at best. Her chances are better the sooner she can get those wounds closed.” Dr. Kim also agrees speed is of the essence now. Kabang is already losing one of her remaining upper molars, a tooth very important for chewing food because of an earlier infection.
Kenngott said Kabang would be operated on at the Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital of the University of California in Davis, “under a team of multi-disciplinary doctors and surgeons led by Dr. Boaz Arzi.” Arzi is a maxillofacial and dental surgeon.
Veterinarians in the US also had raised money for Kabang’s owners Rudy Bunngal and his wife, Christina accompany the dog to the United States. However, there are some difficulties securing passports for the pair. Despite that problem, everything else is in place to transport Kabang. “So far, the Team Kabang estimated the overall cost for her treatment to reach $20,000. Kabang is expected to be in the US for a month,” said Lim.
The Philippine Airlines Foundation said they have sponsored four roundtrip tickets for the Bunggals and the two accompanying veterinarians. Maria Carmen Aquino Sarmiento, executive director of the Philippine Airlines Foundation, said in a statement: “The Philippine Airlines through the PAL Foundation will help Kabang, the heroine dog of Zamboanga City to get to UC Davis so she can get her face fixed.”
“Please note, close up images of Kabang’s face just after the accident have been blurred out. However, this video does show Kabang as she is now, so viewer discretion advised”
“Kabang’s story – Few know the dog,wasn’t rescued to be a pet – she was meant for there dinner plate, like many more before her! I sincerely hope her recent litter of pups will remain as pets too!”
ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines—There must have been something about Kabang, the pet dog that recently lost half her face saving the lives of two children. Until she came into their lives as a foundling puppy, the Bunggals occasionally kept dogs but only for meat.
In fact that was what Rudy Bunggal had in mind over a year ago when he found Kabang, then a few weeks old, in a swamp where the unwanted puppy had been left to die.
“The dogs we raised did not last longer than three months. I slaughtered them. It’s our only way of eating meat,” Rudy Bunggal told the Inquirer in an interview. “Life is difficult and I have to feed my family.”
Bunggal, 57, is a “vulcanizer” who earns a living mending punctured tires while his wife, Christina, sells small quantities of candy.
The couple has one daughter, Dina, 11, but a niece, Princess, 3, lives with them.
Neighbors agreed that life for the couple was difficult and that the family subsisted mostly on water spinach—”kangkong” or swamp cabbage—harvested from the nearby swamp.
As Rudy Bunggal tells the story, he plucked Kabang out of the swamp amid heavy rain over a year ago. He initially had the same thought about what to do with the puppy: make a family meal at the right time.
So the Bunggals raised Kabang, initially giving her coffee creamer because milk was expensive.
But days, then weeks and months went by and Kabang never came close to being placed in a cooking pot. Bunggal said he did not know why he never felt any urge to slaughter the animal.
Ricky Llorete, one of the family’s neighbors, said they too had looked forward to eating Rudy’s “azucena,” as dog meat as referred to by Filipinos, after Kabang’s arrival.
Llorete said the Bunggal family was known in the community as dog eaters and would share with their neighbors cooked dog meat.
“During Christmas or New Year, we ate azucena and drank tuba (coconut wine),” he said.
Christina, Rudy’s wife, said she, too, was puzzled when Kabang lasted longer than her predecessors.
“It was maybe because we treated her differently. Of all the dogs we raised, she was the only one we fed coffeemate and milk. None of the other dogs we had raised spent the night in the same space with our daughter,” Christina said.
The family shared whatever food they had with Kabang.
Dina and her cousin would play with the dog, who never ventured alone farther than the door of the Bunggal family’s shanty on Nuñez Extension here.
“If she went out of the house, it would be with the children,” Rudy said.
Christina Bunggal plays with a horribly disfigured but treasured family pet Kabang
He described Kabang as a “sweet dog,” who wanted to be cuddled.
Rudy said that aside from providing joy to Dina and her cousin, Kabang would also guard the family’s house against intruders.
“She would sit on the (vulcanizing tools) apparently to prevent strangers from taking them,” Christina said.
“Rudy became a different person when Kabang came. He became humane to animals,” Llorente said.
Rudy admitted that he could not thank Kabang enough when she saved Dina and her cousin from harm one day last December.
Kabang, a hero female aspin, enjoys Rudy Bunggal’s scratching of her head and neck.
The two girls were walking across Nuñez Extension one day in December unaware that a speeding motorcycle was bearing down on them. From out of nowhere Kabang jumped onto the path of the motorcycle.
Kabang lived but she lost her upper snout, which got caught in the spokes of the motorcycle’ front wheel.
Rudy maintained that the incident was Kabang’s way of repaying the Bunggals for saving the puppy and caring for her.
AHMEDABAD: The coastal dwellers of Mangrolin Porbandar district woke to a strange sight.The carcass of a huge whale shark, that weigh 10 tonnes and was about 47 feet long, had been washed up on the shores of Mangrol on Sunday.
As the news spread, people living in nearby villages rushed to the coast to see the big shark which was lying on the shore. The forest department and the local police had a tough time controlling the endless stream of visitors that went close to the shark to touch it and even took photographs, posing before the dead shark.
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Officials of the forest department said that the full grown whale sharkwas examined to find if it had died due to some fishing boat or any other factor. But, post mortem examination revealed that the whale shark had died due to natural causes. The forest department buried the shark close to the spot where it was found, after the medical examination.
A senior official said that this would be among the few full grown sharks that have been found dead on the shore. This, once again, reveals that the sharks are found in the Indian water and come here during the monsoons.
The state government in association with the Wildlife Trust of India has also tagged few sharks for satellite tracking. “Tags are put on the sharks to get information about the path that they take to come to Gujarat coast and also to get the details as to where do they actually come from,” said an official.
The whale shark was listed under Schedule I of the Indian Wildlife (Protection) Act in 2001, according to the highest level of protection. It is this Mangrol, a small fishing town situated along the Gujarat coast, that has a mascot – the whale shark. The adoption was declared during the Whale Shark Day celebrations to mark the successful Whale Shark Campaign.
In most countries horse fighting is illegal, it is in the Philippines, but it occurs in several provinces as revealed in a recent Sunday Times Magazine article by Stanley Johnson.
Stallions, male horses, in the wild will fight by instinct to gain authority or mate with a mare. The fights are usually short-lived, a quick bite, a kick and a clash of heads and it is all over with one of the horses leaving with his tail between his legs in submission.
In a civilised society horses are selected and bred to strengthen the breed for a purpose such as hacking, driving or racing. A less expensive stallion is traditionally put to the mare to excite her then taken away and an expensive stallion is put to the mare to finish the job and mate.
Though a little cruel to the first stallion it avoids damage to the expensive horse if the mare doesn’t want to play.
In several provinces in the Philippines, as revealed by Stanley Johnson, a mare in season is tethered in the centre of the arena and two stallions are let loose to fight over her. The fights can last 40 minutes or more. The stallions bite, kick and gouge each other until one of the horses refuses to fight further or tries to leave the arena.
When the fight is over the winner mounts the mare, she may also have been kicked and bitten during the fighting, but cannot escape, as she would if she were in her natural surroundings.
On average thirteen to fourteen fights take place a day and, unnaturally, the mare is mounted a similar number of times. Andrew Plumbly, a Canadian and Dino Yebron, a Philippine vet, work for a charity Network for Animals, they call the treatment of the mare, gang rape.
Yebron explains that the horses used in the fights are working horses, the loser and on some occasions the winner, will suffer internal injuries and are left to die taking several days after fighting or have their throats cut by their owners.
On average 300 to 400 hundred men, women and children attend the fights which are licensed by the mayor with the police in attendance to make sure the gamblers are paid by the bookies. Though horse fighting is illegal in the Philippines the mayor and local government officials turn a blind eye. The reasons given by a local government official for the popularity of horse fighting is poverty, the chance to win a little money and survive in an area rife with violence and terrorism. If poverty was eradicated the violence and horse fighting would stop as there would be no point.
You cannot legislate against nature and it is natural for horses to fight to gain dominance and strengthen the herd. To tether a mare and pit two stallions against each other for sport with no means of determining whether the horses want to fight or not is unnatural and cruel.
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For many Filipinos, dogs are not their best friend but a favorite food.
Thus the illegal trade indog meatcontinues to thrive with some 290,000 canines butchered for food each year, the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) of thePhilippine National Policesaid Tuesday, on the heels of a successful operation against dog butchers inPangasinan.
CAGE DOGS spared from slaughter.
Two dogs were given a new lease on life after they were rescued by CIDG operatives—along with the London-based animal rights group Animal Kingdom Foundation Inc.—from a slaughterhouse in San Carlos City.
The authorities shut down the illegal “abattoir” in Bonifacio village and arrested two men caught cleaning the carcasses of three dogs, the CIDG said in a statement.
Trading in dog meat has been illegal in thePhilippinessince 1998 under theAnimal Welfare Act which states that no animals other than cattle, pigs, goats, sheep, poultry, rabbits, carabaos, horses, deer and crocodiles may be killed for food, unless it’s part of a religious ritual or when an animal is considered a danger to others or to control the animal population.
Violators face six months to two years in prison and a fine of at least P1,000.
The CIDG said the figure of 290,000 dogs slaughtered each year came from Linis Gobyerno Inc., a nongovernment watchdog.
On its website, Linis Gobyerno estimates the dog meat trade to be worth P174 million a year. It says the trade enjoys the “support and patronage of local officials,” which makes it difficult for law enforcers to arrest those engaged in it.
“In Baguio City and La Trinidad, Benguet, alone, there are around 60 restaurants, eateries and canteens that serve dog meat. These are found all over the city, including the central business district, and are patronized by no less than local politicians, heads of government offices, policemen and even professionals,” it said.
In the CIDG operation on Monday, the law enforcers saved two dogs that were tied up in a makeshift cage, said Senior Superintendent Ferdinand O. Divina, CIDG Region I chief.
“The suspects, Danny E. Samira and Jansen C. Tagaduar, were caught red-handed in the act of cleaning the butchered dogs,” Divina said.
Last week, CIDG Director Samuel Pagdilao Jr. met withGlyn Ford, a former member of the European Parliament and an executive director of consultancy firm Polint, who called for the stringent enforcement of the law protecting dogs.
Pagdilao said he had ordered all CIDG regional heads to strictly enforce the law against the dog meat trade.
He also said consumers risked contracting rabies and other diseases when they ate dog meat.
Additional charges have been filed against the Filipino couple currently on trial for crimes related to the production of “crush” videos featuring scantily clad underage girls torturing and killing animals. Dorma and Vicente Ridon were arrested in August last year and charged with animal crueltyand child abuse.
The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) said in a statement Friday the Ridons are now facing additional charges of violating the Wildlife Protection and Conservation Act (RA No. 9147) and the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act (RA No. 9208).
They are currently being held at the La Union Provincial Jail.
“Manila is ‘ground zero’ in the international war against the vile crush-video industry,” said PETA-Asia vice president Jason Baker.
“The Philippineshas an opportunity to slam the door on animal abuse by holding the Ridons accountable for the horrific pain and misery that they have caused,” he added.
According to PETA, the case has prompted government to improve laws against animal cruelty.
In February 2011, Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago filed a resolution seeking an inquiry into crush videos. Also in May that year, Rep. Irwin Tieng filed a bill to prohibit the sale, exchange, or distribution of crush videos in the country. — Amanda Lago/VS/HS, GMA News
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