Guys, I absolutely empathize with the poor animals (god rest their souls), however this situation can't be solved by vengeance. Uplifting the human condition in such countries will in turn have a positive impact on the animals' lives.
It doesn't have to do much with the human conditions in such countries. There are way more other countries with terrible human conditions, but their people won't do such things to animals.
It's all about "greed" and evil human nature, which, sadly, parents set as an example to their kids in an early age. Anyone seen the movie "men behind the sun"?... an old chinese movie in which a cat was thrown to a swarm of rats and was eaten alive by them infront of us after trying to fight for its life.
And the guys who threw it were laughing. It was real. The movie also contained many other controversial scenes.
Obviously the director wasn't suffering from a "bad human condition", but was rather greedy to make his movie controversial to make more money. I don't buy the "he wanted to make it portray real history events".. well, he could've faked the scenes if he wanted to, but he chose to torture animals.
Remember that forgiveness, love and compassion for all is the only way we can move away from such atrocities. I'm not saying this because I'm some hippy "hugs everyone" kind of person. I have realized with time that the ONLY way such acts can be erased is through those three things.
I keep hearing that but I fail to see how it works.
If there is no justice taken, be it defending animals' cases or human beings', then we won't move forward.
The point of "punishment" for those who do such unjustified cruel acts, is to set an example for the others and to curb and set off any other cruel intentions that exist in other sick human beings when they see what happened to the first person.
I always wonder, if animals have the ability to talk and speak in our languages,,,, would more people still kill them and skin them alive for fur (or even meat)? Or if such fur existed on human beings of a specific nation, would other countries hunt them down and skin them alive to get it? (and I mean openly).
Comes to show us how low we look at other creatures and not taking them seriously because of them being different and weak...
I can understand nature and food cycle, but skinning animals alive for fur or killing them for any reason other than food is a sick twisted action and a crime in my book. PERIOD!