Dogs, rats, bats & monkeys roasted WHOLE in Indonesia

[Darthrevan]

 

These are the shocking images of a gruesome food market where dogs are strangled by rope for food and customers can purchase whole flame-roasted animals.

The Tomohon Traditional market in North Sulawesi, Indonesia sells whole monkeys, bats, cats, dogs, pigs, rats, sloths and even giant pythons laid out on tables with painful expressions still etched on their faces.

The macabre food stalls were witnessed by Oman-based photographer and blogger, Raymond Walsh, 44, who said it was easier to witness the dead and mutilated animals than it was to see the living dogs in cages awaiting their fate.

Mr Walsh said: 'It was typical of a lot of local markets in the developing world - lots of fruit, vegetables and fish. The only difference was the sheer number of dead animals for sale.'

On his blog www.manonthelam.com, he describes the harrowing sight of dogs in cages with their dead counterparts lying on a table nearby.

'It was easier to stomach the entrails of monkeys, rats on a stick and decapitated pigs than it was to see those live dogs awaiting their fate,' he said.

'The other animals seem foreign but I have friends who have dogs.'

Although the market's dead dogs may be difficult for westerners to look at, Mr Walsh points to the different cultures and attitudes towards the animals in South East Asia.

'Put simply, Westerners see dogs solely as pets. Indonesians see them as both pets and as sources of meat - it's just how we're raised,' he said.

In the photographs, many of the animals are stiff and completely black with a haunting pained expressions on their faces.

'After they are killed the animals are roasted over a fire, so the fur burns off, the skin tightens and peels back, causing that 'screaming' look,' Mr Walsh explained.

'How they are killed depends on the animal. Cats, monkeys, and sloths are shot. Bats and rats have their heads clobbered against a tree or table. Pigs are stabbed with a sharp piece of wood or metal,' he added.

'Wild boars are killed as they as they are trapped. Snakes are slashed with a knife or have their heads cut off. Dogs are strangled with a rope,' Mr Walsh went on.

When asked to describe the smell, Mr Walsh said: 'In a word, appalling. There's something about the air that changes when there's that much death around.'

'It hangs heavy and it made me queasy and light-headed at the same time... It's the first time I'd ever encountered anything like it,' he added.

Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2569111/Held-tiny-cages-animals-await-fate-alongside-remains-dogs-rats-monkeys-creatures-flame-roasted-WHOLE-Indonesian-market.html

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[Kusje]

Typical colonialist mindset. Going into someone's home and complaining about how they do things and what they eat.

[Myxilplix]

Heheh before I opened the thread already I knew where they'd be talking about. He missed out the monitor lizards or maybe he didn't see them in the market during his visit.

 

The minahasans will eat anything they can catch but you'll need to go up to the mountain places like Tomohon to find it. In the bigger towns in north Sulawesi like manado and bitung you can't really find this kinda stuff. But it is true, they have pet dogs but will still eat dog anyway.

 

I've had the chance to try the bat (paniki) and monitor lizard because my friend's father is a real jungle man and will still go hunt for it. He was visiting their place so he went to catch/cook up the stuff for the festive season when I was over there last.

 

I love minahasan/manadonese food, it's awesomely spicy and the pork belly satays (rageh) marinated with lime juice is something I can never get tired of.

[Vega]

look at the tongue!!

[Count-Bracula]

Karma.

[GLZT]

If Mr Walsh here is not a vegetarian, I don't think he got the rights to complain about it. After all, the animals were killed before being cooked, not cooked alive.

 

Even in most slaughterhouse in many countries, many of the animals will be killed in those ways, I rmb watching a documentary that one of the slaughter house(can't rmb which country), they will use a sharp iron rod about 1m long and pierce it through the pig's nose while its alive and hang them upside down while the hook in like a conveyor belt system looking thing will slowly move as their blood is being dripped away into the drain below.

 

That explains why so many ppl turn vegan after watching slaughter house videos, but I still eat meat happily.

[Toothiewabbit]

The poor dogs seemed to be roasted alive. They maciam died in excruciating agony sia :(

[Thaiyotakamli]

The poor dogs seemed to be roasted alive. They maciam died in excruciating agony sia :(

whats the difference between roasted dog and roasted pig?

 

both still animal and suffer the same fate

[Hamburger]

unacceptable.......really speechless

 

poor dogs, poor animals.

[Toothiewabbit]

whats the difference between roasted dog and roasted pig?

 

both still animal and suffer the same fate

It is different becos' over here, dogs are seen as pets, as familee, not food ley.

 

Pigs, on the other hand, are just pork knuckle with beer to me [laugh]

[Thaiyotakamli]

It is different becos' over here, dogs are seen as pets, as familee, not food ley.

 

Pigs, on the other hand, are just pork knuckle with beer to me [laugh]

haha back few hundred years ago when i was young, pig is my favorite pet

[Salmon]

The wild boars are lucky not to be on the menu list.

[Darthrevan]

The wild boars are lucky not to be on the menu list.

 

in actual fact they do roast wild boars and pigs too

[Flying_genie]

Eating suckling pig is even worse. A newly born piglet killed for food. I love suckling pig. Yummy!

[Babyt]

luckily they didnt cook the writer alive for food.

[Porker]

Typical colonialist mindset. Going into someone's home and complaining about how they do things and what they eat.

 

Agreed. However, the humane way is to end their suffering quickly. Death by strangling is a horrible way to die.

 

[Scion]

i'm surprised this thread hasn't evolved into an anti-PRC bashing yet!