Save Cats and Dogs in South Korea from Brutal Deaths
By Kristin HarknessTarget: President Lee Myung-bak
Goal: Enforce legislation regarding the slaughter of cats and dogs for human consumption to protect them from horrific abuse.
Each year in South Korea, two million cats and dogs are captured by butchers and sold in open markets for human consumption. They suffer atrocities—dogs are slowly torn apart, electrocuted, strangled, or beaten to death, while cats are bludgeoned and boiled alive. Despite the fact that only a small minority of South Koreans consumes cat and dog meat, the industry thrives because of the perpetuation of lies and government indifference.
Most South Koreans consider cats and dogs as companion animals, and South Korea’s Animal Protection Law, passed in 1991, acknowledges them as “domestic pets.” Historically, South Koreans have only eaten dogs in times of severe poverty, yet even then they were still treated as companion animals. But a small number still believe the myth that cat and dog meat have medicinal properties.
Unscrupulous meat traders perpetuate the myths that dog meat increases male sexual prowess and that cats produce tonics that cure rheumatism and arthritis. Legislation was passed last year that increases punishment of those found guilty of cruelly killing or injuring an animal to a year in prison or a fine of 10 million won (about 8,800 dollars). However, this illegal industry holds great power as it bribes government officials and police, hires thugs to intimidate animal welfare advocates, and persuades newspapers to continue the perpetuation of myths about the medicinal value of cats and dogs.
It is estimated that there are nearly 6,500 establishments trading cats and dogs in South Korea. Illegal and unsanitary dog farms exist throughout rural parts of the country, where dogs are raised and sold to butchers. South Korean officials must work to enforce animal protection laws in order to save innocent cats and dogs from gruesome deaths.
PETITION LETTER:
Dear President Lee Myung-bak,
Millions of cats and dogs are suffering brutal deaths in the illicit meat trading industry, largely because of government indifference. South Korea passed stricter laws intended to protect these animals, yet it seems nothing is being done.
Only a very small minority of South Koreans consumes cat and dog meat; most consider these animals to be domestic pets. It is largely because of the power of the meat trade industry to bribe officials and persuade newspapers to perpetuate the myths about the medicinal value of cats and dogs that this industry still exists.
It is up to you to determine the fate of these unlucky animals. Please strengthen and better enforce legislation that bans the trade of cat and dog meat.
Sincerely,
[Your Name Here]
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Signed again and again and again but still it goes on.These brutal bastards remain unmoved by our petitions
i totally agree! im so sick of these people abusing animals!
have signed so many i’m blinded and it still goes on, dont buy anything from these countrys
Stop hurting cats and dogs. You will be punished one day for this. There is Karma and also prosecution by law for you one day i hope.
I couldn’t agree with you more Walter, but we must keep trying…
The cruelty is sickening. I understand that different coutries class different animals as food, but the cruelty involed while keeping and killing them is downright disgusting. Make the punishment fit the crime!
Please educate the children of our future!! Cats & dogs are not to be eaten!!! They are our friends and we need to love & protecmct them from being mutilated and killed for food!!! This is sooooo unreal this happens still in 2012!!!!STOP IT NOW!!!!!!!;((((
The level of cruelty here is too much to stomach..cruel and
These animals learn fast and have just as much feeling as we do…oh please stop it .
Those animals have intelligent and lovely.
korea you treat your wildlife/animals as you do your people,you are primitive…reform your laws and eating habits!!! utterly disgusting.
I CANNOT FATHOM THE AMOUNT OF EVIL IN ONES HEART IT WOULD TAKE FOR THESE PEOPLE TO INFLICT THE TORTURE THESE POOR ANIMALS MUST ENDURE TO COME TO THEIR DEATH!! THIS HAS TO STOP NOW!!!!
Sadly the Horror continues – SE Asia is dripping in tortured blood of animals
dogs are not food and never will they are our bestfriends who only want someone to show them affection just like we do of them they dont deserve to suffer horrendos deaths just for the sake of the dog traders who need to be hung up and beaten let them feel pain maybe just one day karma will get u
This is an utter disgrace to the human race, we are in the 21st century not the Dark Ages, we don’t eat domesticated pets anymore. You will NEVER be accepted in civilised countries if you behave like “Cavemen”
Do the same thing with all f…… Koreans.
Mo more animal abuse!
bomb them all to hell
I know with the song Gangnam you feel you are superior. Think again. Three words for you: CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM. They feel pain, they are terrified as they hear the other animals screaming in agony. Whatever the cultural belief about animals, subjecting them to these methods is wrong and you know it’s wrong.
I will no longer purchase any products or goods from the following companies Coca Cola, Acer, Atos, Dow, GE, McDonalds, Omega, Panasonic, P&G, Visa:for their sponsorship of PyeongChang 2018 Olympics in S. Korea. I have sent comments to these companies about their support of a culture in which abuses animals specifically canines prior to their death, to increase flavor? not only is that abuse abhorrent, but the fact that they steal family companions and consume them is beyond my comprehension. Please stop your barbaric practices The world looks upon you with disgust.
Don’t buy their cheap crappy shit!should never have given theese scum the Olympics shame on Asia for their treatmentnt of animals!
A man stabbed a dog here in Western Australia yesterday and I cannot understand why. I also am angry that the news didn’t say how the dog is. I will try and find out. Leave animals alone because they feel like you and I do.Help animals in South Korea as it’s shocking and brutal to kill any animal.
Stop all the brutality and torture to all animals in every country! Especially South Korea, China and in our own neighborhoods. This is absolutely pure evil and I feel so much empathy for these loving creatures… Teach love, learn and share kindness…. If not I truly hope all who hurt any animal should have it happen to them ten fold. Try to feel what they feel… It’s tragic… ;( Please all who has the power to change by enforcing strict laws governing us, Make something happen to thwart this nasty spread of evil. Thank you!
ABBATTETELI TUTTI, I COREANI! TRANNE QUEI POCHI ATTIVISTI.
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