To my animal lover friends,
Please forgive the group e-mail but this seems important and perhaps our signatures may help.
I'm wondering if you have heard about the boycott petition for an artist from Costa Rica who used a starving street dog as an art installation in a gallery in Nicaragua and purposely let the dog die in public view.
I received several e-mails about this issue and honestly at first I thought it was a hoax, I could not believe it was true, but sadly it is true.
This artist has been chosen to display this same "installation" with another dog in the 2008 Biennial in Honduras.
Here is the petition to boycott a second opportunity for this artist to have another dog dying in public display. You can find more information by googling the artist name, the 2008 Honduras Biennial and animal rights groups.
I haven't been able to find any evidence online so far to suggest this is a prank or hoax.
And the pictures of the emaciated dog had to come from somewhere...
If this is someone's idea of a good laugh or April Fool's Day joke, though, it is NOT FUNNY.
And the pictures of the emaciated dog had to come from somewhere...
If this is someone's idea of a good laugh or April Fool's Day joke, though, it is NOT FUNNY.
3 comments:
I just don't understand how so many people could go visit the museum and be ok with that...
I think it's probably a social lesson. An artist's comment on what our world has become-- that people affluent enough to go to an exhibit dare not return and feed a dog or care to help. What's worse than a starving dog other than that so many went and saw what was there and did nothing about it?
Heart,
Turd
I looked at other articles on line that talked about this, and there were idiot commenters saying that this petition is just another example of American imperialists trying to impose their values on other societies. MAKES ME SO ANGRY. We as human beings have a moral obligation to speak up whenever we see animal cruelty, whether it's in our own neighborhood or in another country.
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