Please help - Tutles, frogs being tortured

Animal rights groups such as PETA regularly field cruelty complaints from caring consumers who are sickened by the hellish conditions endured by turtles, frogs, eels, and other fragile exotic animals sold for human consumption at food markets across the United States.

Many of these animals are ensnared in the wild—as evidenced by the nets that are still wrapped around their bodies—and suffer unimaginable stress and physical pain during transport. At greedy markets where they are peddled like key chains, these animals are crowded together in bins or stacked on top of one other in crawling piles; deprived of food, water, and medical attention; forced to languish, often immobile, for hours or even days; and callously bludgeoned or hacked to death. Click here to view photos of the typical conditions in which these animals are kept, and click here to view a video.

Many of these species are specifically exempted from cruelty statutes, which means that these animals are afforded no protection during confinement or slaughter.

Please contact the following popular food-market chain—which PETA recently received horrific complaints about, including allegations that fish routinely have their fins, tails, and scales cut off while they are still alive and twitching and are then placed into plastic bags for customers, at which point the animals slowly suffocate to death. Ask store officials to stop their alleged torture of animals and to stop selling live animals for human consumption.

Please send comments to:

William Jiang, Manager
Quang Truong, Assistant Manager
99 Ranch Market
Irvine 2
5402 Walnut Ave.
Irvine, CA 92604
949-552-8899
1-888-910-8899 (toll-free)
Web form: http://www.99ranch.com/AboutUs.asp

Roger H. Chen, Chairman, President, & CEO
Tawa Supermarkets, Inc.
6281 Regio Ave.
Buena Park, CA 90620
714-521-3366 (fax)