Artist Starves Dog To Death As Art

I am a very positive person and don't intend to focus on negative things with my blog.  So after this post it will be back to more uplifting articles and posts.  But I feel compelled to pass along this shocking story and a link to an online petition.  An artist in Honduras starved a dog to death at an art exhibition over several days and received an award for it!

The artist found a stray dog and chained him to the corner of an art gallery. The artist's idea was to showcase the suffering of the dog or something similarly deranged. So the dog was left tied in the corner without food or water until it died. I received a forwarded email showing pictures but I feel they are too disturbing to post up here.  You can read the story, find links to pictures, and sign an online petition against this artist's award here.

Its hard to decide the most disturbing past of this story. In the pictures you can clearly see hordes of observers. Its not like the dog was under heavy secret service security. Someone could have done something. But instead people came to check out the "show". Has entertainment reached a point where live deprivation is a good show?

I really don't know what signing an online petition against this artist is going to accomplish. Probably not much at all. Perhaps being aware that something like this can occur will trigger someone to speak up for a future injustice.