August
2004
Action
Alert: Greek Government is Poisoning 50,000 Stray Dogs Prior
To Olympic Games
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Greece has made dog killing a pre-Olympic sport. Estimates suggest approximately
80 percent of the 30,000 to 50,000 stray and homeless dogs in the streets
of Athens have been poisoned in the past year in an effort to ‘clean
up’ the streets prior to the opening of the 2004 Olympic Games
on August 13. Starving dogs have been given food laced with rat poison
which often leads to a slow and excruciating death that sometimes takes
days.
Disturbing video taken by Welfare for Animals Global/Welfare for Animals
Greece, a New York City advocacy and lobby group, is available that
shows the gruesome methods being utilized to kill dogs in the city
at
www.ua4a.org/Greece.mov. [Link no longer valid]
Please join In Defense of Animals and other advocacy organizations by
writing the following officials and demand that the practice of poisoning
dogs in Greece be halted immediately:
• Alexandros Kontos, Deputy Minister of Agriculture, 2u050@minagric.gr
• Dimitris Avramopoulos, Minister of Tourism, dimavra@otenet.gr
• Petros Molyviatis, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, mfa@mfa.gr
• George Savvaides, Greek Ambassador to the U.S., evie@greekembassy.org
• Theodoros Roussopoulos, Prime Minister, mail@primeminister.gr
For more information, contact LCL@idausa.org.
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