ANIMAL CRUELTY PLEASE READ THIS NOW!! WE MUST STOP THIS MAN!!!

[stratosphere2]

The only thing you seem to do in this thread is go around and bad mouth a whole bunch of people

[BaybeeElin]

Personally I think Animal Cruelty is sick.
Just saying that though isn't going to change anything.
If we cared deeply enough about it we would prevent it.

To be honest, I don't know how so many people could just watch it die so painfully.

[Purposeless]

Err... Didn't someone already post a link showing that it was a hoax?...................

[shizzle]

Thats soo sad.

[lewis-moody]

this is sick! i may buy a website against this!

[JessicaLOL]

personally, i think animal cruetly is very emotional subject.
animals do nothing, NOTHING at all to be treated like that, and eventhough it will always happen out of greed etc its horriable to think that they do nothing; they only kill in the wild because they have too, or bite because there owners have brought them up to be defensive so i just think it needs to stop, because some may have the attitude "humans" before animals but to be honest animals were here before us, and they dont do nothing to get treated like that.

[Redacted]

I hate animal cruelty, I hate looking at the pictures.

It just makes me depressed.

Then I always hug my dog, start kissing it and think about what If it was him.

But how can we stop it? we cant.

Unless we come down really hard on those caught.

[HotelUser]

The fact that some people believe this to be art, is just totally disgusting. I think even jail time would be reasonable for the killers, seeing as they obviously got enjoyment out of watching a living thing die like that.

[Bef]

Thats sick! Thats not art, thats something that an 8 year old boy with serious mental issues might do

edit: i just read an update to the article u posted

UPDATE !!!!!!!!!!!!DONNA C. BROUGHT THIS TO MY ATTENTION AND I HOPE IT'S TRUE !!!
March 22, 2008
Starving dog exhibit reported as a hoax


The story of a dog being starved to death as part of an art exhibition appears to have been falsely reported by Costa Rican newspaper The Nation, according to new sources. I reported the appalling story here last week among global outrage about the exhibit and a reported invitation to repeat the work elsewhere.

It has now emerged, however, that artist Guillermo Habacuc Vargas intended the work to be a stunt to show how a starving dog suddenly becomes the centre of attention when it is in a gallery, but not when it is on the street. The work was intended to expose people for what they really are - "hyprocritical sheep". He said that in order for the work to be valid, he and the gallery had to give the impression that the dog was genuinely starving to death and that it died.

Juanita Bermúdez, director of the Codex Gallery, stated that he would not have allowed the dog to be mistreated, that it ate and drank regularly, and that it was allowed to escape back to the streets from where it was taken at the end of the exhibit. "It is conceptual art and a work that leaves a social message", he said.

The stunt provoked massive outrage on a global scale, and over a million people have signed an online petition to try and prevent another dog being starved to death in a repeat of the exhibit. Unconfirmed reports say that the artist even received death threats and, judging by the vehement anger I've seen in response to this story, that would not suprise me.

The strange thing is perhaps how you react knowing now that this was a hoax. I suspect, like me, you still feel angry, perhaps that it's sick, and that your initial reaction was totally justified. But though I may not agree with his shocking methods whatsoever, I have to admire Guillermo Habacuc Vargas' ability to inspire such a reaction and, in that sense, didn't he achieve what he set out to do? Whether it qualifies as 'art', conceptual or not, is a totally different matter...

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[Hopeless]

how can 'we' stop 'him' if 'I' don't even know 'you'