Stray dogs being poisoned in India
Mar. 9th, 2008 12:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
keyan_bowesOnly a few days after I wrote about the stray dogs of Delhi, I saw a rather stomach-turning article in the newpaper: Authorities in Srinagar, in the state of Kashmir, are planning to poison 100,000 stray dogs. With strychnine, a nasty and slow-acting (but cheap) poison.
Though India has pretty decent animal welfare laws, there's often no buy-in from local authorities. It's easy to whip up anti-dog sentiment in India. It's easy to whip up anti-anything sentiment in India. And perhaps not only in India...it's surprisingly easy to convince people to target something or somebody.
Even Shakespeare thought so. Remember Cinna the Poet.
Though India has pretty decent animal welfare laws, there's often no buy-in from local authorities. It's easy to whip up anti-dog sentiment in India. It's easy to whip up anti-anything sentiment in India. And perhaps not only in India...it's surprisingly easy to convince people to target something or somebody.
Even Shakespeare thought so. Remember Cinna the Poet.
