Celeb-loved animal rights activist accused of staging dog abuse

A Los Angeles animal rights activist is accused of staging gruesome dog killings during trips to slaughterhouses for footage in his foundation videos, according to a report. Marc Ching, who runs the Animal Hope & Wellness Foundation, allegedly paid a butcher in Indonesia to hang a dog in one video and burn it to death so he could stage the scene for the camera, the Los Angeles Times reported. His undercover reels from slaughterhouses were brought into question by local animal rights activists in Indonesia, Cambodia and elsewhere in Asia who said that the killings depicted are much crueler than the normal methods there, the outlet reported. Several butchers captured in Ching’s videos said he showed up on a visit to a market in Tomohon, Indonesia, asking to buy dog meat in 2016, the outlet said. Ching — who previously served time for kidnapping before launching the foundation — then requested that they were slaughtered in specific ways, including being tortured alive, while he filmed the gruesome scene, according to the report. Raw footage obtained by the newspaper appears to back up claims that Ching had orchestrated the grisly slayings...MORE