Tasunka, I know what you mean. We do get some good news, it's not enough, I agree. We have to keep signing, posting and emailing. I try hard to change the world. I wish everyone would treat these animals they way they deserve to be treated. Keep up the good work!!
BEEN SIGNING ,SHARING,LECTURING FRIENDS AND DINNER GUESTS..
always on a soapbox...the question I have,is after 2 years of this,Have we even made a dent???
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I only see more petitons,a few dogs saved,but the practice is still thriving..
wonder what it's going to take,,,,need to spike these people's food,make them so sick for 48 hours,that they will never eat another dog or cat again.....how do we do that???
nothing seems to gross them out,probably live slugs are a delicacy,wouldn't surprise me..
just wondering if we are making headway,or banging heads against a brick wall![]()
Signed.
http://www.care2.com/c2c/share/detail/3593740 mails will bounce, but there will be enough left
*For immediate release
10 June 2013***
*Opposition increases to dog eating festival *
Animals Asia has added its voice to growing calls to stop the annual
summer solstice dog eating festival in Yulin in the Guangxi Zhuang
Autonomous Region, China.
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It takes place this year on June 21st with animal welfare activists
already lining up against it in large numbers.
An open letter from Animals Asia in opposition to the event has been
sent to the Guangxi Yulin government. Copies of the correspondence have
also been shared via Animals Asia's Weibo
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sina_Weibo> accounts, receiving well over
a thousand shares and hundreds of comments - the vast majority in support.
The letter had been forwarded to the Mayor as well as representatives
from the Tourism Bureau, Health Bureau, Cultural Bureau, Husbandry and
Veterinary Bureau and the Food and Drug Administration.
Online opposition has been further boosted with criticism of the event
coming from celebrities Sun
Li<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Sun>and Shu Qi
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shu_Qi> with fans adding their voices via
reposts and comments.
Animals Asia will again be sending out thousands of leaflets in
opposition as well as having representatives leafleting at the event.
The aim being to point out the cruelty involved in the dog meat trade,
the many dogs that are snatched from owners and the danger to public health.
Animals Asia China Cat and Dog Welfare Manager Suki Deng said:
"We have written to the local authorities to lodge our complaints and to
outline the cruelty involved and the dangers of eating dog meat. Beyond
this we believe that an industry largely driven by illegal means should
have no place in a civic event such as this. Each year opposition to
the event grows and the publicity surrounding the event becomes less
favourable.
"There are other elements to the festival and to remove the dog eating
need not spell the end of the festival itself. The truth is,
considering what we know about the industry, stolen pets will be among
those dogs consumed. In addition by taking part, people will be
endangering themselves as disease can easily spread through dogs
trafficked in this way."
Animals Asia founder Jill Robinson added:
"We have heard the argument that dog eating represents Chinese culture
and tradition. We have long answered that culture and tradition are no
excuse for cruelty and brutality. We would also like to point out that
China has an increasing culture of animal welfare and heightened concern
over practices such as these. Traditions should not be above criticism.
Neither should they be exempt from change.
"In Chinese society dogs are becoming increasingly recognised for the
help and assistance they provide to those in need. We now have guide
dogs for the blind, therapy 'Dr. Dogs
<http://www.animalsasia.org/index.php?UID=FYDUXVAXOJC8>' and dogs
assisting customs officials and the forces in detecting illegal
contraband and explosives. "Dogs have also assisted rescue services to
find victims and survivors during earthquakes and other tragedies, and
increasingly provide companionship and comfort in family homes."
[S. Korea] Moran Market Dog Meat Shops Maintenance by City of Seongnam vs. Right to Survive..."
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http://koreandogs.org/moran-market-maintenance/
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This is a Korean News from August 2012 but the English caption has been added now: http://youtu.be/zVFmWEoFVk0
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Translation of S. Korean News on 8/25/2012 http://news.jtbc.co.kr/article/article.aspx?news_id=NB10158399
Dog Fight is in full swing at the Moran Market in Seongnam these
days. As city of Seongnam moves forward with the maintenance of dog
meat shops, shop owners are resisting with the demand for guarantee of
their survival.
Yeon-Tae Kim with JTBC affiliates, Central Daily (Joongbu Ilbo) reports.
A row of dog meat shops lines the street.
In cages, dogs bred for consumption look flaccid.
Shop owner completes price negotiation with a customer and drags a dog inside.
Yellow dog (Neurongi)seems to have sensed his death, he is struggling desperately.
After a while, this dog burned into black is sold as health food dog meat.
Number of dogs slaughtered and sold each day by 21 dog meat shops in Moran market is approximately 200.
[Gyeong-Soon Kim/ Seongnam Hadaewon-dong: They are living beings so
when I see them being slaughtered sometimes, it's horrible and hideous.]
[Gang-Woo Lee / Seongnam Seongnam-dong: It's not good aesthetically to
display and sell them in the street where pedestrians can see.]
City of Seongnam is set out to make some changes because of endless civil complaints about Moran market repulsive scenery.
They¹ve decided to move the cages from illegally taking space on the road and sidewalks.
That¹s because Livestock Products Sanitary Control Act does not classify
dogs as livestock, so the sale or distribution of dog meat cannot be
banned or regulated.
[Eun-Sik Shin / City of Seongnam, Animal Resource Team Leader: Based on
our current law, we can't regulated them but we will ask them to move
the cages voluntarily. If this doesn't work then, we will issue them
warning and if the warning doesn't work then we will impose fine.]
Shop owners who have been in business at this market for the past 40
years are resisting claiming that moving the cages will threaten their
livelihood.
[Gang-Chun Lee / President of Moran Market Livestock Traders
Association: We are very offended because we are being treated as if we
are committing crime.]
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What you can do: http://koreandogs.org/what-you-can-do/
Petitions: http://koreandogs.org/petitions/
Signed.
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/698/040/400/oppose-to-dog-eating-festival-starting-21st-june/ More signatures please, Urgent!
Signed 8/6,thank you
Signed.
Seemed the best thread to put this in to remind us that China and Korea do not hold the monopoly on disgusting eating habits.
Ban Meat Sales of Threatened Species
This post was modified from its original form on 08 Jun, 1:50

Harshiita - 1 day ago - change.org
This post was modified from its original form on 08 Jun, 1:25

Kelly - 1 hour ago - change.org
Signed 6/6,thank you
Signed.
Signed.
Signed.
All emails sent and I signed at Change too. This is so sick to think people eat dog and cat.. SICK..SICK>
Signed.
done anneke,thank you
Already signed all those. Those Asians are disgusting!
http://koreandogs.org/what-you-can-do/sample-protest-letter/sample-protest-letters-others/
The same thing happenned to me when I used that link but if you go to this one and scroll down the page past the pictures the link there takes you to the page of companies. If you click on the Write to Korean Companies in the list it takes you to that page.
This post was modified from its original form on 29 Apr, 4:58
I signed the one at force change. The other one keeps saying, page not found. I will keep trying. You know me Jan, I don't give up. Thanks for everything, Dear Friend. ![]()
http://koreandogs.org/what-you-can-do/contacts-for-protest/contacts-for-protest-s-korean-companies/
The sample letter could go to any of these or just a few lines of our own opinion. I'm not expecting everyone to write to all of these. I am going to write to ones that have products that we may be thinking about etc etc.
This post was modified from its original form on 28 Apr, 14:22
Dear Managements of South Korean Companies,
In S. Korea, 2.5 million dogs and thousands of cats are tortured and slaughtered each year to fuel the $2 billion illegal dog and cat meat industry, a trade that has neither been officially recognized nor accepted by the Korean Government nor the EU.
Bishop Desmond Tutu said, “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”
Today, we urge you to choose the side of the oppressed and take your position to help ban the barbaric and inhumane dog torture and consumption in S. Korea!
If you want to export your products and services to the rest of the world, and showcase the best of Korea, then please respect our wishes and do your part to end this madness that is going on in your country. Make it your company’s policy to ban employees from eating dog meat that fuel the pockets of these criminals. Lobby your government to enact an enforceable animal protection law that abolishes this abomination once and for all. In doing so you will gain the respect of the youth and the understanding of your customers, currently horrified by these atrocities.
It’s 2013! If it was North Korea one could try to understand, realizing that people are dying of starvation in that backward society. However, South Korea is flourishing and consumers have food and choices. South Korea has a wide variety of cuisine and the West can not understand why you continue to choose not just to eat but to torture companion animals who have served us so faithfully over thousands of years. Just recently the United Kingdom welcomed South Korea in London and your Paralympians had their faithful guide dogs by their side. The world showed you acceptance and respect, only now to finally discover the very country they are trading with is a nation devoid of any compassion. To know that you are eating not just “farmed animals” but even former pets is incomprehensible to us your customers. To know you turn a blind eye to markets where slaughter takes place in full view of mothers and children fills us with horror. To know you boil and burn dogs alive fills our children with fear. This is the message you are giving to your current and future trading partners. If you can not show compassion, think about the economics, think about the tourism and think about future World Events. There will be boycotts. There will be major outcry. There will be sanctions.
Please read the argument against dog meat consumption by Venerable Beopjeong Buddhist priest (ë²ì ì¤ëì ê°ìì©ë°ëë¡ ): http://koreandogs.org/?p=5557.
You still have time to act and make a difference. Do not allow your company’s image and good name to be tarnished by this illegal industry. Make S. Korea Proud- Make the Change Now. Don’t let this be your legacy.
Sincerely,
Your name
samsungblog@samsung.com; samsungpr@edelman.com; samsungnahq@webershandwick.com; Samsungcbdteam@webershandwick.com; samsungmobilePR@mww.com; SamsungDI@allisonpr.com; samsungha@talktocurrent.com; Courtney.Kessler@edelman.com; SamsungEBD@allisonpr.com; consumeraffairs@hmausa.com; lgeir@lge.com;ir@lg.co.kr; service@e-daewoo.com; info@e-daewoo.com; DaewooASC@e-daewoo.com; info@dempol.com; atencion.clientes@daewoo.cl; webmaster@president.go.kr; admin@parkgeunhye.or.kr; 3150411@gmail.com; english@assembly.go.kr; media@assembly.go.kr; webmaster@assembly.go.kr; web@mofat.go.kr; consular_usa@mofat.go.kr; economic_usa@mofat.go.kr; political_usa@mofat.go.kr; congress_usa@mofat.go.kr; infodesk@koreaembassy.org; education_usa@mofat.go.kr; economic_usa@mofat.go.kr; political_usa@mofat.go.kr; congress_usa@mofat.go.kr; infodesk@koreaembassy.org;
SIGNED,THANK YOU
Signed.
SADLY SIGNED,THANK YOU
I think it's a shame we have to tell people not to eat dog or cat meat. People are so sick. I signed all the petitions.
Signed.
Signed.
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/813/206/130/tell-samoa-dont-export-dog-meat/
This is the petition I should have put with the Samoan dogs.
Thank you dear Tasunka - I am trying to keep up with finding petitions! Monika will come back and find us all still here I hope!
how are you doing?
petitons are being worked on, more interested in how you are holding up?

Cher -
This post was modified from its original form on 07 Apr, 9:54
Ask South Korea's New President To Stand Up For All Dogs
Is South Korea's new President a secret dog lover? President Park Geun-hye received two Jindo pups as inauguration gifts. Jindos are the most widely used breed of dog in South Korea's illicit dog meat trade, which kills two and a half million dogs a year.
The dog meat trade exists in a legal blind spot caused by conflicting regulations. Please help IDA help dogs and cats in South Korea! Send a polite message to President Park on Facebook and/or Twitter, asking her to expand her love for her new canine companions to include all dogs in South Korea by banning the horrific dog meat trade, completely and permanently.
Dogs in the meat trade are electrocuted, hanged, beaten to death, and have their throats slashed. They are thrown into tubs of boiling water, then into rotating drums for the removal of their fur, and then they are blowtorched, often while still conscious. The prevailing myth is that the more suffering endured during slaughter, the more tender the meat and more potent the so-called "medicinal properties."
FB only
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Animals
Maricruz- 17 minutes ago - causes.com Noted and signed current Monika :-0 Thank-You Everyone Involved with This Thread :-0 18/2
Noted and signed current Monika :-0 Thank-You Everyone Involved with This Thread :-0 Hi Desanka Garfield
18/2
All done! You are right Barbara, it's very long and horrific.
Thank you and...
Noted and signed current :-0 Thank-You Everyone involved this loooooong horrendous Thread :-0 Lovelyy Kitty and dog ![]()
Noted signed curreent Monikka Such a Horrendous :-0 !!! Thank-you Everyone Involved with This Thread :-0 5/2
Signed.

Make It Illegal to Eat Cats and Dogs in Switzerland - ForceChange
Animals
Susan- 2 hours ago - forcechange.com
Noted and signed current Monika and Anneke :-0 Thank-You Everyone Involved with This Thread :-0 3/2
Signed.
The recent discovery of dog corpses and dried dog parts in a slaughterhouse in Taiwan is a grisly reminder that the sale and consumption of dog meat in the country continues. Urge the legislature to strengthen enforcement and dispel the myths surrounding dog meat through education.
http://www.skdogcatcampaign.org/
Click on: what you can do!
It's about time we start another round of Protests against the Dog-and Catmeat trade in South Korea!
Sign/share the petition, post your comments on their Facebook pages, send your mail (sample letters +mailblocks included)! Thanks everybody
This post was modified from its original form on 27 Jan, 10:35
Thank you Desanka and Jan!
Finally some good news:
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Volunteers Save 1,000 Cats From Dining Table After Discovering Them in Cramped Cages Following Road Crash in Changsha, China | M
Animals
Gabriela- 10 hours ago - dailymail.co.uk
Signed new petition. ![]()
Noted and signed current Chang.org
Monika
5/1 ...
AAAAAAGH!!! Having problem with change.org ... Getting ready to send them a Note ... They are pretty prompt :
Sorry !!! Barb E ....Everything else is noted, signed and current Monika
Thank-You Everyone Involved with this Thread
.... 5/1
I have just searched this out because I remembered that the good old Daily Mail exposed this tiger farming for wine over 2 years ago.Warning - Some of you may not want to look at this.
In today world everything is upside down... slaughter houses are just around the corner.
In Serbia, you can still buy Chinese Tigers Cream to realize pain in your back.
Sadly, majority of people is indifferent to the suffering they cause to animals, they wall off from cruelty in order to enjoy their lives and their meat meals, so...
Forget chocolate or cheese: Cat and dog meat is Swiss delicacy
How can anyone deny the Tigerwine. There was a worldwide petitions on a Friday 1 1/2 year ago to try to stop the auction in China of , i believe , 200 bottles tiger wine for extremely much money with extremely rich people. The petition was for the Governor from that area , and asked to forbid the auction. There were in less then 24 hour so much signatures that it maybe helped , the auction was canceled a few minutes for it would started.
But before that petition , I also did not know and I cannot believe someone will drink that.
Lenicka - you certainly find things out. I did not know about Italy either, though of course I know about tiger bone wine. There are people who do not believe tiger bone wine is still made but they are deluding themselves. One of them sent me a message the last time I made a comment about it on one of the petitions and denied it happenned. In a country where they boil dogs alive and are responsible for driving rhino to extinction anything is possible. There are no civilised countries in the world - every day something happens that proves that. Within every country however, there are some civilised people.
I first read it in a book a dutch writer who was going to live in Italy. He became friendship with small wine farmers ,the wine more for family use. He was going to help in the wine season. Then the farmers told him that it was a old tradition and of course not very liked by the outsiders. But that it was very good for the wine.
Later I saw on You Tube , where I was in a discussion with someone that says that cats in Italy had the best life in the world , provided that they would not be castrated , reactions of Italian people that attacked him , told that they know that cats are eaten in a lot of areas.
I remember that there was a petition here where this fact was mentioned too. I was very shocked about that wine story , the writer - that only wrote in that time about his live in that village - maintains that it is true and that it was common for a long time.
It's of course not in the wine of big wine companies. I even did not believe it , till I saw that it was an old tradition in China too , for the Rice Wine. And it still will be in the small villages. They make still expensive wine of tigers , why not with cats?
The fact that they eat cats in Switzerland I saw on the website ,I posted below and after that I hear that is was in Italy too. I think Fulvia , in Italy you have such as much backwards peasant , as in the rest of the world with there stupid so-called old traditions.
And what they all do with animals in our civilized area is also not very nice. How many ladies know that the base of their expansive perfume are the anal glands of a civet-cat ? That the anal glands is painful harvest every day from civet-cats that live their whole live in small cages ? How many vegetarians knew that the gelatin on their puddings , in all the candy's ( Haribo) etc. are made from bones? So how many things in our live , we think that are pure , sweet or smells good , are based on disgusting ingredients ? Cheese with a rennet stomach as ingredient? So after all this I would not surprised that the cat-wine story is really true , like the writer insist . I will try to find the book and let you know more Fulvia , maybe you can contact the writer then.
Signed.
Shocking and horrible , yes. And it has to stop.
But what about the rest of the world ? In Italy - on the countryside - they take a cat for fermentation of the wine , just like the Chinese did ( or do?) with the rice wine. And I think that a lot more people on countrysides in the world , also do this. In the US there are centers from where a Asian breeder distribute on-line purchased cat meat. That means that selling and distribute cat and dog meat is not forbidden in some US states.
Ect , ect. It's a nightmare.

Take Action! Statutory Prohibition Against Consuming Dogs & Cats in Switzerland
Animals
Nicole- 1 hour ago - avaaz.org

Farmers in Switzerland Routinely EATING Dogs & Cats ~Some Raised as Food
Animals
Shirley- 9 hours ago - dailymail.co.uk
Let's write to the President Obama to urge S. Koreans to ban dog & cat consumption. Just copy/paste sample letter below. (Subject: Foreign Policy)
* President: http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/submit-questions-and-comments
* VP: http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/submit-questions-and-comments/vp
* OPE: http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/submit-questions-and-comments/ope
Sign US Government Petition: http://wh.gov/Nw37 This url will lead you to the petition in the topic below
Urge the S. Korean Government to Respect Global Animal Protection Laws and Ban the Dog & Cat Consumption Immediately!
The unprecedented cruelty towards animals can no longer be tolerated and it is the moral duty of our Government to intervene on behalf of animal welfare organizations and American public to urge S. Korea to respect and enforce not just its own but Global Animal Protection Laws. Each year 2 mill dogs & thousands of cats are brutally killed often boiled alive. Forced to endure suffering deprivation, torture from birth to death. Abandoned pets end up as meat. We oppose this on ethical, health, environmental and moral grounds. The issue concerns US because in 2018 we will attend Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. It is unconscionable for the Government to ignore the huge growing shock and outcry on social media sites. Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness confirmed animals are not just commodities.
This post was modified from its original form on 20 Dec, 6:09
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/urge-s-korean-government-respect-global-animal-protection-laws-and-ban-dog-cat-consumption/X3F2TJQL?utm_source=wh.gov&utm_medium=shorturl&utm_campaign=shorturl
This post was modified from its original form on 20 Dec, 6:05
Noted and signed current Monika
Thank-You Everyone
9/12
UNESCO - Please educate China and Korea - stop torturing and eating dogs!!
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UN ESCO - Please educate China...start date: Dec.
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S KOREA - please educate consumers and farmers of dog meat - animal torture must STOP
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Thailand: Saving man's best friend from the butchers
4/12/2012
Thailand is expected to take a step forward to end the trade in dog meat and skin as activists and the public sector push the issue on to the national agenda ...
Source: Saving man's best friend from the butchers
Up to date, last letter sent.
Big thank you Anneke and Monika!
Thank you Curzio!
To: samsungblog@samsung.com ; samsungpr@edelman.com ; samsungnahq@webershandwick.com ; Samsungcbdteam@webershandwick.com ; samsungmobilePR@mww.com ; SamsungDI@allisonpr.com ; samsungha@talktocurrent.com ; Courtney.Kessler@edelman.com ; SamsungEBD@allisonpr.com
Subject: Samsung/S. Korea
Dear Management of Samsung:
In S. Korea, 2.5 million dogs and thousands of cats are tortured and slaughtered each year to fuel the $2 billion
illegal dog and cat meat industry, a trade that has neither been officially recognized nor accepted by the Korean
Government nor the EU.
Bishop Desmond Tutu said, If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
Today, we urge you to choose the side of the oppressed and take your position to help ban the barbaric and inhumane
dog torture and consumption in S. Korea!
If you want to export your products and services to the rest of the world, and showcase the best of Korea, then please
respect our wishes and do your part to end this madness that is going on in your country. Make it your companys policy
to encourage employees not to eat dog meat and fuel the pockets of these criminals. Lobby your government to enact
an enforceable animal protection law that abolishes this abomination once and for all. In doing so you will gain the respect
of the youth and the understanding of your customers, currently horrified by these atrocities.
Its 2012! If it was North Korea one could try to understand, realizing that people are dying of starvation in that backward society.
However, South Korea is flourishing and consumers have food and choice. South Korea has a wide variety of cuisine and the
West can not understand why you continue to choose not just to eat but to torture companion animals who have served us so
faithfully over thousands of years. Just recently the United Kingdom welcomed South Korea in London and your Paralympians had
their faithful guide dogs by their side. The world showed you acceptance and respect, only now to finally discover the very country
they are trading with is a nation void of any compassion.
To know that you are eating not just farmed animals but even former pets is incomprehensible to us your customers.
To know you turn a blind eye to markets where slaughter takes place in full view of mothers and children fills us with horror.
To know you boil and burn dogs alive fills our children with fear.
This is the message you are giving to your current and future trading partners.
If you can not show compassion, think about the economics, think about the tourism and think about future World Events.
There will be boycotts. There will be major outcry.
There will be sanctions.
You still have time to act and make a difference. Do not allow your company image and good name to be tarnished by this
illegal industry.
Make S. Korea Proud- Make the Change Now. Dont let this be your legacy please!
Sincerely:
If not sent yet, please do, and forward!
To: 110@gdga.gov.cn ; ywts@gzfda.gov.cn ; xzts@gzfda.gov.cn ; waiban@gz.gov.cn ; webmaster@gdfao.gov.cn
Subject: OPEN LETTER TO THE AUTHORITIES OF THE GUANDONG GOV'T IN CHINA
TO:
Guangdong provincial goverment:
Food & Drug Administration Bureau of Guandong:
Guangdong Foreign Affairs Office of Guandong Province
Tel: (8620) 81218888 Fax: (8620) 81218569
Dear Sir or Madam,
Newspapers worldwide are reporting about the extreme torture of cats that are skinned and then boiled alive by butchers in Guandong. Thousands of cats are sold to the Guangdong restaurants, and most of these cats come from other provinces where cat nabbers have become infamous all over China, terrorizing cat owners who fear that their cats may be stolen to be sent to Guandong restaurants. The shocking side of this story that's making human beings all over the world shiver with indignation is that cats are skinned and dismembered alive, and still alive when thrown into boiling water to finally finish a most hellish suffering with their last breath.
It is with profound distress that I am writing to you regarding this most Inhumane treatment of cats and ask you wholeheartedly that you put a stop to it immediately. The West is horrified by so much vileness, and this will certainly not be a postcard that China would want for the world to see. It is because of these practices of a minority that the important and rich Chinese culture and history have become so stained and repudiated by most countries which have adhered to humane laws to protect the most defenseless members of our planet: the animals. It will not be difficult for China to adjust to this new era since most Chinese people abhor these extreme cruelties. The minority in your society who delight themselves on this type of cruel bloodshed are a few and they will only destroy China's respectability around the world. Surely, not all Cantonese are proud of the smell of blood tainting their culture and history.
Quoting General Secretary Hu Jintao on December 18, 2008 commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the reform: "the spiritual poverty is not socialism," can be translated also for non-humans as these practices are certainly a great poverty of spirit and one that will bring shame to the Chinese civilization. It is now a good opportunity to follow on his Excellency Hu Jintao's footsteps to a rich and spiritual socialism.
Respected Guangdong Provincial party committee, the provincial government, Guangzhou Municipal party committee, the municipal government leads: These acts have driven people around the world beyond their limits of forbearance. There is nothing that should justify such horror, let alone something as selfish as the culture of food based on the suffering of the innocent and the defenseless.
I appeal to your conscience and the compassion that you surely have in your hearts, to put an end to so much suffering inflicted upon the most defenseless members of your society: the animals. Please make it illegal for butchers to inflict so much pain and agony on the voiceless and defenseless animals. Please investigate these atrocities, and forbid any food and beverage that is based on cruelty, and capture and destroy the suppliers and sales of live animal companions for food, immediately. Modern laws and regulations must be instituted immediately to avoid this type of traffic and the extreme suffering involved with it. No nation should have to be embarrassed of their own country because of a minority that can only bring shame and disgrace upon itself. It would be to the great advantage of China to put an end to this horrific treatment of animals to show the world that it is also compassionate and civilized, and has the ability to be an effective part of the third Millennium.
Sincerely:
Firmato quasi tutto. Grazie Anneke e Monika.
Other sample letter!
Boycott until S. Koreans stops this madness! Send them clear messages that this must stop now!
http://worldwide.hyundai.com/WW/ContactUs/index.html Copy /paste message below. Wait for the code to copy and paste; send
Hyundai on FB: https://www.facebook.com/Hyundai?v=wall
Hyundai on Twitter: https://twitter.com/HYUNDAI
Kia on FB: https://www.facebook.com/kia
Kia on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kia
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[Sample Letter]
Dear Management of Hyundai/Kia,
Bishop Desmond Tutu said, If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
Today, we urge you to choose the side of the oppressed and take your position to help ban the barbaric and inhumane dog torture and consumption in S. Korea!
If you want to export your products and services to the rest of the world, and showcase the best of Korea, then please respect our wishes and do your part to end this madness that is going on in your country. Make it your companys policy to encourage employees not to eat dog meat and fuel the pockets of these criminals. Lobby your government to enact an enforceable animal protection law that abolishes this abomination once and for all. In doing so you will gain the respect of the youth and the understanding of your customers, currently horrified by these atrocities.
Its 2012! If it was North Korea one could try to understand, realizing that people are dying of starvation in that backward society. However, South Korea is flourishing and consumers have food and choice. South Korea has a wide variety of cuisine and the West can not understand why you continue to choose not just to eat but to torture companion animals who have served us so faithfully over thousands of years. To know you turn a blind eye to markets where slaughter takes place in full view of mothers and children fills us with horror. To know you boil and burn dogs alive fills our children with fear. This is the message you are giving to your current and future trading partners. If you can not show compassion, think about the economics, think about the tourism and think about future World Events. There will be boycotts. There will be major outcry. There will be sanctions.
You still have time to act and make a difference. Do not allow your company image and good name to be tarnished by this illegal industry. Make S. Korea Proud- Make the Change Now. Dont let this be your legacy.
Sincerely,
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Longer version of sample letter: http://koreandogs.org/?page_id=3712
More contact inf: http://koreandogs.org/?page_id=3635
Petitions: http://koreandogs.org/?page_id=1512
Photo: http://blog.naver.com/yts5209/100069911824
President of China Hu Jintao: Stop the cat and dog meat trade
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https://www.change.org/petitions/president-of-china-hu-jintao-stop-the-cat-and-dog-meat-trade
Mail sent, thanks Anneke
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Finally some GOOD news!
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Volunteers Celebrate Saving 500 Cats from Meat Tradehttp://www.care2.com/causes/volunteers-celebrate-saving-500-cats-from-meat-trade.html
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World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) is the intergovernmental organization responsible for improving animal health and welfare worldwide and S. Korea is a member. http://www.oie.int/en/ Let's alert and ask them to investigate S. Korea's dog meat trade cruelty. Their emails:
oie@oie.int, t.ishibashi@oie.int, rr.asiapacific@oie.int, srr.seasia@oie.int
Dear World Organization for Animal Health,
The $2 billion dollar-a-year South Korean dog and cat meat industry, which extinguishes the lives of approximately two and a half million dogs a year for meat or gaesoju, a dog wine or broth, and thousands of despised and doomed cats for so-called health tonics or goyangyeesoju, and soup, operates in a sordid and illicit world where farmers and butchers kill with frightening impunity in the most abominable fashion. Dogs are killed with high-voltage electrocution, which takes anywhere from thirty seconds to three minutes, hanged, and even beaten to death at the request of customers who believe the meat more tender and tastier the greater the suffering (one of the most pernicious of myths), and that the so-called medicinal properties are enhanced. They are most often killed within sight of their cage mates. They are then thrown into a tub of boiling water, often still alive, and then into a rotating drum for the removal of their fur, and finally blow torched. At Moran Market, South Koreas largest open air-market for dog meat, dog carcasses are on display next to the cages of live dogs. Cats are often bludgeoned and thrown into boiling water while still alive. At the farms, dogs are fed germ-infested, rotting, and fermented human leftovers, a health risk to both the dogs and those who eat them. In South Korea, dogs and cats lives are short and ferociously heartless until they tremble no more at the hands of their slaughterers as cage mates look on. Read more: http://skdogcatcampaign.com/
Please read the below important report by KARA (Korea Animal Rights Advocates) regarding the status of dog meat industry: http://koreandogs.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/KARA-Dog-Meat-Report_English-1.pdf
Please watch these videos and see what is going on inside S. Korea at this moment:
S. Korea's Dog Meat Trade: Eating sick dogs and former pet dogs http://youtu.be/A3WNJFd1Cl0
S Korea's Dangerous Health Food - Inconvenient Truth About Dog Meat 1 of 2 with English Caption
http://youtu.be/vHB3uwB9kyA
S Korea's Dangerous Health Food - Inconvenient Truth About Dog Meat 2 of 2 with English Caption
http://youtu.be/foHCBNllT8w
See more undercover videos from S. Korean dog market, slaughterhouses here:
http://dogisdog.org/bbs/board.php?bo_table=video
Read the reports by CARE (Coexistence of Animal Rights on Earth): http://www.careanimalrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/sh.pdf
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/lf66kyl8jfisfn0/rRS6gjih5h/Press%20Package%20Folder%20%28Public%29/English%20Materials/FAQ_English.pdf
More info: http://koreandogs.org/
Please contact the S. Korean delegate and investigate this important issue and pressure them to comply with the rules of the World Organization for Animal Health as they are members:
Dr Taeyung Kim
Director General, Animal Health Division, Livestock Policy Bureau, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
Government complex Gwacheon
88 Guanmun-ro, Gwacheon-si
Gyeonggi -Do 417-719, S. Korea
Please don't let the S. Korean government get away with this outrageous cruelty to companion animals.
Thank you for your attention!
Sincerely,
Photo: http://blog.naver.com/prologue47?Redirect=Log&logNo=50086463298Stop
Every year more than 18 million dogs are slaughtered for human consumption worldwide. Thousands of these dogs are taken off the streets of Bali, where they are strangled, beaten, tied up, even skinned alive.
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/717/987/701/stop-the-brutal-slaughter-of-dogs-in-bali/
http://www.care2.com/causes/video-exposes-shocking-dog-meat-industry-in-bali.html
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Animals
Cher- 5 minutes ago - robinhood-tierschutz.at
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/global500/2011/countries/SouthKorea.html
14 main Companies S. Korea, first 3 below
Post your (adjusted) protestletter, see sample http://koreandogs.org/?page_id=107 f.e under 9!
http://www.ziprecruiter.com/apply/contact-info/6100ca95/
post your protestletter,
http://worldwide.hyundai.com/WW/ContactUs/index.html
with confirmation code to enter first!
http://www.sknetworks.com/en/etcInfo/userInquire.jsp
Noted, signed, and sent messages what I could Current Monika and Anneke :0 ![]()
http://koreandogs.org/?page_id=217 Please save this link and make a comment on a regular basis on Facebook and /or the online webforms! On behalf of the tortured South Korean dogs...!!! Keep bothering those responsible, with your comments and questions, if possible once a week?! ----------------------------------------------------------------
Sample letter below, send 2 mails please, 1)
To: ethicsoffice@un.org; dsd@un.org;unosd@un.org,
Subject: South Korea, to the Attention of Secr. General Mr. Ban-Ki Moon
Dear Secr. General, Mr. Ban-Ki Moon:
I am extremely upset about the torture and consumption of companion animals in your country, South Korea.
With the ubiquity of social medias, everyday we are seeing shocking and heartbreaking images and videos of innocent dogs being tortured and killed in your country.
Even though Korea has established an Animal Protection Law for companion animals, dogs are still beaten, hung, electrocuted, and treated brutally by farmers and slaughters. Also, dogs and cats are still being beaten and boiled alive for so-called elixirs, which do not have medical properties except in the minds of ignorant and gullible customers.
These practices have no place in the modern world. Other Asian countries have banned the eating of dog meat and the cruel industry that goes with it, such as Taiwan and the Philippines. Why does Korea persist in lagging behind these countries and other civilized societies?
Its the responsibility of the Korean government to once and for all end the cruel dog meat and cat medicine industries in Korea. It is time to dismiss the childish myths and propaganda surrounding these industries and their vile products. It is time to leave behind backward and unnecessary traditions.
And it is time for Korea to start taking animal welfare seriously and showing that it really does have a compassionate and ethical society. That means it is time for the Korean government to start better educating the public about the importance of spaying and neutering, about not abandoning pets, and about treating animals in a proper manner.
Until these things are done, Koreas reputation in the international community will continue to suffer. Its citizens will continue to face shame and embarrassment. And Korea will continue to be regarded as third world, despite its modernization and attempts at globalized thinking.
We urge you and the people of S. Korea to learn the teachings of venerable Beopjeong Buddhist Priest on why S. Korea should immediately end the dog meat consumption: http://www.kaap.or.kr/s1.html?db_name=s1&idx=19998&kwd=&mode=read&page=2&page_list=1&search=.
From now on, I will boycott Korean products, and I will not support Korean companies or visit Korea until the abuse of cats and dogs has finally ended.
Sincerely:
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2) And to: webmaster@president.go.kr ; webmaster@pmo.go.kr ; web@mofat.go.kr ; suhky19@mifaff.go.kr ; wtokfda@korea.kr ; callcenter@kisinfo.com ; webmaster@me.go.kr ; koc@sports.or.kr ; iagoc@incheon2014.kr ; english@seoul.go.kr ; webmaster@buykorea.org ; koreapros@spo.go.kr ; webmaster@koreabrand.go.kr ; Jejumaster@jeju.go.kr ; jiill2@gg.go.kr ; ljm631000@nate.com ; emaster@korea.kr ; consular_usa@mofat.go.kr ; koreanembinuk@mofat.go.kr
Cc: lkantrow@uscib.org ; engelhardt@vci.de ; vandewijs@wbcsd.org ; robynne@robynneanderson.com ; cm2lvc@gmail.com ; jroelvc@gmail.com ; peter.bates@icsu.org ; gisbert.glaser@icsu.org ; sascha.gabizon@wecf.eu ; sabinamensah@hotmail.com ; a.u.nayar@gmail.com ; Rosemberg@TUAC.org ; lmartin@sustainlabour.org ; saba@rioplus20s.org ; ivana.savich@gmail.com ; kiara.youth@gmail.com ; yunus.arikan@iclei.org ; n.poisson@uclg.org ; e.saiz@uclg.org ; mcardama@nrg4sd.org
Subject: South Korea/Dogmeat/Ethics/Development/Laws
President Myung-Bak Lee, Minister Hwang-Sik Kim, Min. Sung-Hwan Kim, Min. Kyn-Yong Suh, Comm. Hee-Sun Lee, Min. Che-Min Rim, Min. Young-Sook Yoo, Mr. Yong-Sung Park, Mr. Young-Soo Kim, mayor Won-Soon Park, Mr. Young-Ho Oh, Pros. General Sang-Dae Han, Mrs. Bae-Yong Lee, Gov. Keun-Min Woo, Gov. Moon-Soo Kim, Gov. Jae-Myung Lee, Mayor Jae-Myung Lee, Mayor Nam-Sik Hur, Amb. Young-Jin Choi, Amb. Suk-Hwan Park
To whom it concerns:
I am extremely upset about the torture and consumption of companion animals in your country, South Korea.
With the ubiquity of social medias, everyday we are seeing shocking and heartbreaking images and videos of innocent dogs being tortured and killed in your country.
Even though Korea has established an Animal Protection Law for companion animals, dogs are still beaten, hung, electrocuted, and treated brutally by farmers and slaughters. Also, dogs and cats are still being beaten and boiled alive for so-called elixirs, which do not have medical properties except in the minds of ignorant and gullible customers.
These practices have no place in the modern world. Other Asian countries have banned the eating of dog meat and the cruel industry that goes with it, such as Taiwan and the Philippines. Why does Korea persist in lagging behind these countries and other civilized societies?
Its the responsibility of the Korean government to once and for all end the cruel dog meat and cat medicine industries in Korea. It is time to dismiss the childish myths and propaganda surrounding these industries and their vile products. It is time to leave behind backward and unnecessary traditions.
And it is time for Korea to start taking animal welfare seriously and showing that it really does have a compassionat
Shocking Expose of the Dog Meat Industry in Bali
Animals
Richard- 1 hour ago - indiegogo.com
This picture is haunting me too Leslene since I saw it. I don't know who took it but I could NEVER stand beside and watch this horror and pain of the poor doggies....
Dog meat (and also cat meat) is a brutal business and its rising ! Now Thailand gets more and more involved in the trade, too..
What can we do? Never stop our protests and outcries and support orgas who rescue these poor animals from a cruel death.
I have to comment again - I cannot get this picture out of my mind - who took it, who stood by and watched these poor animals being brutally slaughtered. Why can teams not go in and rescue these animals? I will never be able to get over this. The only way to end this is to send people in and if they can't rescue all the animals then give them something to put them to sleep forever then these bastards can start eating each other. They are barbaric low life rubbishes and they need to be eliminated as soon as possible.
Torture of dogs in the DOG MEAT TRADE
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Gupo Dog Market in Busan, S. Korea.
Home to the 32 illegal dog meat
businesses. In the photo a new shipment of tortured dogs are arriving to be
killed upon order.
This market must be shut down!
Please write to the Busan Mayor Nam-Sik Hur:
https://webmail. kabelbw.de/ do/mail/message/ mailto?to= bsmayor%40korea. kr
bsmayor@korea. kr
http://english. busan.go. kr/00main/ main.jsp
[Sample Letter]
Dear Mayor Nam-Sik Hur,
I am extremely upset about the dog and cat meat trade at Gupo Market in
Busan, South Korea.
Even though Korea has established an Animal Protection Law for companion
animals, dogs are still beaten, hung, electrocuted, and treated brutally by
farmers and slaughters. Also, dogs and cats are still being beaten and
boiled alive for so-called elixirs, which do not have medical properties
except in the minds of ignorant and gullible customers.
These practices have no place in the modern world. Other Asian countries
have banned the eating of dog meat and the cruel industry that goes with it,
such as Taiwan and the Philippines. Why does Korea persist in lagging behind
these countries and other civilized societies?
It's the responsibility of the Korean government to once and for all end the
cruel dog meat and cat medicine industries in Korea. It is time to dismiss
the childish myths and propaganda surrounding these industries and their
vile products. It is time to leave behind backward and unnecessary
traditions.
And it is time for Korea to start taking animal welfare seriously and
showing that it really does have a compassionate and ethical society. That
means it is time for the Korean government to start better educating the
public about the importance of spaying and neutering, about not abandoning
pets, and about treating animals in a proper manner.
Until these things are done, Korea's reputation in the international
community will continue to suffer. Its citizens will continue to face shame
and embarrassment. And Korea will continue to be regarded as "third world,"
despite its modernization and attempts at globalized thinking.
From now on, I will boycott Korean products, and I will not support Korean
companies or visit Korea until the abuse of cats and dogs has finally ended.
This post was modified from its original form on 14 Nov, 10:36
Done
Thanks Monika and Anneke
http://www.mcst.go.kr/english/contactus/contactus.jsp Askthe Minister of Culture, Sports & Tourism, Kwang-Shik Choe: Stop the horrific dog meat trade in S. Korea! Or copy/paste the letter written under http://www.facebook.com/pages/Stop-the-Dog-and-Cat-Consumption-in-S-Korea/296145553736735?ref=stream
For more contacts http://koreandogs.org/?page_id=217 they can all be approached about this horrific business, so please do!
ban the consumption of cats! 'Festival' Currunao/Peru
http://alcoperu.net/09/protesta-internacional-contra-consumo-de-gatos.html English
new petition:
https://www.change.org/es/peticiones/alcadesa-de-san-luis-de-ca%C3%B1ete-per%C3%BA-proh%C3%ADba-el-consumo-de-gatos-en-el-festival-curru%C3%B1ao
ban the consumption of cats! 'Festival' Currunao/Peru http://alcoperu.net/09/protesta-internacional-contra-consumo-de-gatos.html English
Let's give it another try.....
To: mdehabich@minsa.gob.pe ; cbarbieri@minsa.gob.pe ; arodriguezv@rree.gob.pe ; contactos@embaperubolivia.com ; conperbaires@consuladoperubaires.org ; info@embaperu.ch ; peruconsulate-uk@btconnect.com ; postmaster@peruembassy-uk.com ; conpermexico@prodigy.net.mex ; consulperu-amsterdam@rree.gob.pe ; consuladodelperu@conpercaracas.com
Cc: lepru@embajadaperu.es ; consulado@consulperubarcelona.com ; info@consulperumadrid.org ; consuladoperusevilla@yahoo.es ; conperuvalencia@yahoo.es
Subject: La Quebrada", San Luis de Cañete/Peru
Senor, Senora:
A través de la presente deseo saludarlos muy cordialmente y a la vez manifestarle mi rechazo a la celebración que se lleva a cabo cada año, el día 21 de septiembre en La Quebrada, San Luis de Cañete. Nos referimos al festival Curruñao, donde se matan gatos para para consumo.
Nos causa preocupación la tolerancia del ex alcalde, Paulino Antezana Urbinano, de la actual alcaldesa de San Luis DELIA VICTORIA SOLORZANO CARRIÓN y de las autoridades nacionales y regionales que hasta la fecha no prohíben el consumo de gatos en dicho festival pues esto no solamente va contra la salud de las personas, ya que la carne de gato no es apta para el consumo humano, y contra la Ley de protección a los animales Nº 27265, sino también nos hace quedar a los peruanos como bárbaros y retrógrados ante el mundo.
Tal hecho abominable, el de matar gatos para consumo, tiene un origen solamente demagógico y politiquero, iniciado en los años 90 por Jorge Brignole Santolalla, ex alcalde de Cañete y persona de dudosa reputación, con el fin de congraciarse con parte de la comunidad cañetana. Es absolutamente falso que se trate de una tradición, como se excusan los autores de dicho festival, pues no hay ninguna colectividad afro en toda América que coma gatos, solo ese grupo peruano.
Sabiendo que la alcaldesa de San Luis, persona sensible, razonable y que administra el Municipio con la idea de hacer que los ciudadanos de San Luis de Cañete alcancen el más alto nivel en calidad de vida en un distrito moderno, saludable y desarrollado, les solicitamos tomen medidas acordes con la Ley Nº 27265 para prohibir esta matanza, pues en ella se especifica lo siguiente:
Artículo 1.- Declárese de interés nacional la protección a todas las especies de animales domésticos (
.) contra todo acto de crueldad causado o permitido por el hombre, directa e indirectamente, que les ocasione sufrimiento innecesario, lesión o muerte.
Artículo 4°.- Obligación de autoridades y de instituciones protectoras de animales.
4.1 El Estado y las instituciones protectoras de animales debidamente reconocidas quedan obligados a velar por el buen trato, salud y respeto a la vida y derechos de los animales.
Artículo 19°.- Sacrificio de animales domésticos no destinados al consumo humano. El sacrificio de animales domésticos no destinados al consumo humano sólo se efectuará por causa de inhabilidad física, accidente, enfermedad o vejez extrema, excepto que constituyan un riesgo para la salud humana. En esos casos deberán ser sacrificados por las autoridades competentes del modo que señale el reglamento.
Por lo expuesto solicito que NO SE AUTORICE el festival Curruñao y se dé una Resolución Municipal para sea prohibido. Asimismo, se impongan las debidas sanciones a quienes intenten llevarlo a cabo, patrocinen y/o fomenten.
Esperando que mi petición sea atendida me despido.
Muy atentamente,
Sincerely:
Signed. What a sad and depressing topic.
FB members
Make-a-difference-for-cat-meat-consumption-in-peru
https://www.facebook.com/notes/make-a-difference-for-animals/cat-meat-consumptio
n-in-peru/405144536225216
Please take action against the consumption of CAT MEAT during a festival that
takes place in Peru every year on 19th September.This "festival" is illegal
because it is against the law for the protection of animals No. 27265. However
is not only approved and consented by the local authorities and the government
but also by many media and some politicians in Peru who see death and
consumption of this animal as funny and admissible.
Cat-Eating Festival: Peru's 'Gastronomic Festival Of The Cat' Includes A Feline
Menu
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/10/cat-eating-feast-peru-festival_n_195490
3.html
Against cat meat in PERU
"Contra consumo de gatos en Peru"
Actions taken! Thank you Monika!
Signed.
Thank you Monika
(Peru) Campaigning for the Rights of Cats
> The Gastronomic Festival of the Cat happens every September in La
> Quebrada, Peru, but this year is comes as animal rights activists step
> up their efforts to change attitudes.
>
> "God created cats!" read one placard. "Murderers!" shouted a chorus of
> animal-rights activists.
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> Even a stray yellow dog seemed to be barking in support of cats. He
> was wagging his tail with great excitement.
>
> It was a Sunday evening in Miraflores, the suburb of Lima where I
> live. A large group of mostly young protesters were yelling
> animal-rights slogans at pious residents who were tiptoeing quietly
> into church to attend mass.
>
> The demonstrators held up portraits of Saint Francis of Assisi, the
> patron saint of animals. In front of them, a cordon of riot police
> stood guard and, behind, churchgoers formed a line - as if to protect
> their place of worship from the abuse.
>
> --
> full story:
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19846516
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PETITION to sign
PERU: Stop the Cat Meat Festival
GOBIERNO DE PERÚ: PROHIBIR FESTIVAL GASTRONÓMICO DEL GATO O "COME GATO"

Animals
Kelly- 9 hours ago - takepart.com
Photos from Dog Meat Illegal Water Injection Case in Goyang-city, S. Korea
WARNING! Graphic Images!
From: Giny Woo
Subject: Photos from Dog Meat Illegal Water Injection Case in Goyang-city, S. Korea
Date: Thursday, October 4, 2012, 6:18 PM
See the photos from the dog meat illegal water injection case in Goyang-city, S. Korea:
http://news. naver.com/ main/read. nhn?mode= LSD&mid=sec& sid1=102& oid=412&aid= 0000000171
Read the related news story: http://koreandogs. org/?p=1760
Sign the petitions: http://www.change. org/petitions/ s-korea-s- ministry- of-food-agricult ure-forestry- and-fisheries- and-goyang- city-close- down-the- illegal-dog- slaughterhouses- now
PERU: Stop the Cat Meat Festival
GOBIERNO DE PERÚ: PROHIBIR FESTIVAL GASTRONÓMICO DEL GATO O "COME GATO"
South Korea President Lee Myung-Bak
1 Cheongwadae-ro
Jongno-gu
Seoul 110-820
Republic of Korea
EMail: http://english.president.go.kr/common/email.php
Dear Sir,
Thousands of cats and dogs are farmed and slaughtered in South Korea
for human consumption. They are slaughtered in the most brutal and
barbaric ways imaginable with the prevailing myth that the greater the
suffering, the more tender and tastier the meat and that mythical
health properties are enhanced.
To be used in soups and "tonics", the animals are often bludgeoned,
thrown into a tub of boiling water while often still alive, and then
into a rotating drum for the removal of their fur, and finally
blow-torched.
In cases where they are not boiled alive, they are electrocuted,
hanged beaten to death.
This is technically illegal, yet the industry of cat and dog meat
cruelty continues.
I demand a ban on cat and dog meat or I will boycott of the
PyeongChang 2018 Olympics in South Korea.
Sincerely,
All actions taken! Thank you Ladies!
Don't miss the link to email the Olympic Committee per below:
"Send messages to Olympic Committee: https://secure.registration.olympic.org/en/faq/ask-question
[Sample message]
To the International Olympic Committee:
I am extremely distressed about the torture and consumption of animal companions in South Korea. Even though the government has established an Animal Protection Law, dogs are still electrocuted, hanged, and beaten to death by farmers and slaughters. Also, dogs and cats are still being tortured and boiled alive for so-called elixirs, which have no medicinal properties except in the minds of gullible customers. Until South Korea ends this appalling suffering, the country’s reputation in the international community will continue to suffer. Its citizens will face shame and embarrassment. And South Korea will continue to be regarded as “third world,” despite its glittering modernization and attempts at globalized thinking. There will be worldwide attempts to boycott “PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics unless the abuse of cats and dogs has finally come to an end."
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Signed
Withdraw Your Sponsorship of PyeongChang 2018 Olympics in S. Korea, a Dog Eating Nation ! SIGN ! !
Animals
Cher- 10 hours ago - you.38degrees.org.uk
Signed.

Animals
Kim- 4 hours ago - ida.convio.net
PLEASE SIGN Boycott Hyundai/Kia, Samsung, LG Until S. Korea Bans the Dog and Cat Torture and Consumption
Animals
Raquel So- 7 hours ago - change.org
Signed all
Thanks Monika and Anneke
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Frank- 5 hours ago - nydailynews.com

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Craig- 2 hours ago - care2.com

Animals
Craig- 4 hours ago - preciousjules1985.wordpress.com
Adapt the title :
Dear Mr. President,
Dear Madam, dear Sir,
I am extremely distressed about the torture and consumption of animal companions in South Korea.
Even though the government has established an Animal Protection Law, dogs are still electrocuted, hanged, and beaten to death by farmers and slaughters.
Also, dogs and cats are still being tortured and boiled alive for so-called elixirs, which have no medicinal properties except in the minds of gullible customers.
Until South Korea ends this appalling suffering, the countrys reputation in the international community will continue to suffer.
Its citizens will face shame and embarrassment. And South Korea will continue to be regarded as third world, despite its glittering modernization and attempts at globalized thinking.
1. I urge the South Korean Government to strengthen the South Korean Animal Protection Law to prevent animal cruelty and to introduce basic animal-protection regulations. It must also provide penalties for violations and ensure that mistreated animals can be legally seized from abusers and given immediate refuge.
2. I request that the South Korean Government create an enforceable law to ban the torture, killing, sale, and consumption of dogs and cats.
There will be worldwide attempts to boycott PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics" unless the abuse of cats and dogs has finally come to an end.
Sincerely,
http://animalrightskorea.org/campaigns-info/protest-contact-details.html
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Korean President Mr. Lee Myung-Bak
1 Cheongwadae-ro; Jongno-gu, Seoul, Korea
email: webmaster@president.go.kr , foreign@president.go.kr
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Prime Minister Mr. Kim Hwang-sik
Central Government Complex, 55 Sejong-no, Jongno-gu
Seoul, Korea 110-760
email: webmaster@pmo.go.kr
Minister Mr. Suh, Kyu-Yong
(This is one of the main guys presiding over dog meat industry issues.)
Ministry of Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
Government Complex Gwacheon, Jungang-dong 1
Gwacheon, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
email: master@mifaff.go.kr
Mayor of Seoul Mr. Park, Won-soon
(This guy is also a key player concerning dog industry issues.)
Deoksugung-gil 15, Jung-gu, Seoul 100-110, Republic of Korea
web mail: http://oneclick.seoul.go.kr/v2007/beonyeok/registv2.jsp
Ministry of Culture, Sports And Tourism Republic of Korea
Minister Choung Byoung-gug,
110-703, 42, Sejongno, Jongno-gu, Seoul, Korea
web mail: http://www.mct.go.kr/english/contactus/contactus.jsp
Ministry of Environment
Ministor Yoo Young-suk,
Government Complex Gwacheon 1 Joongang-dong
Gwacheon-si, Gyeonggi-do, 427-729 Korea
email: minister@me.go.kr
Ministry for Health & Welfare
Minister Chin Soo Hee,
75 Yulgong-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul, Korea 110-793
email: wmaster@mohw.go.kr
Supreme Public Prosecutor's Office
Prosecutor General Kim Joon Gyu,
1730-1 Seocho3-dong, Seocho-gu, Seoul, South Korea 137-730
email: koreapros@spo.go.kr
Korea Food And Drug Administration
Minister Noh Yun-hong
194 Tongilro, Eunpyeong-gu, Seoul, 122-704, Republic of Korea
email: kfdacall@korea.kr
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All emails in block :
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Korea Tourism Organization (KTO).
http://english.visitkorea.or.kr/qna.kto?cmd=qnanonmemberwrite&lang_se=ENG&jsp_name=enu%2FFU%2Fqna%2FQnaNonMemberWrite&memberjsp_name=enu%2FFU%2Fqna%2FQnaMemberWrite&md=enu&pagecode=4803
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KTO worldwide
http://english.visitkorea.or.kr/enu/FU/FU_EN_8_11_2.jsp
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Adapt the title :
Dear Mr. President,
Dear Madam, dear Sir,
I am extremely distr
Send a message to the Olympic Committee that we will boycott the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics until South Korea ends the shameful and cruel practice of eating dogs and cats:
https://secure.registration.olympic.org/en/faq/ask-question
To the International Olympic Committee:
I am extremely distressed about the torture and consumption of animal companions in South Korea.
Even though the government has established an Animal Protection Law, dogs are still electrocuted, hanged, and beaten to death by farmers and slaughters.
Also, dogs and cats are still being tortured and boiled alive for so-called elixirs, which have no medicinal properties except in the minds of gullible customers.
Until South Korea ends this appalling suffering, the countrys reputation in the international community will continue to suffer.
Its citizens will face shame and embarrassment. And South Korea will continue to be regarded as third world, despite its glittering modernization and attempts at globalized thinking.
There will be worldwide attempts to boycott PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics unless the abuse of cats and dogs has finally come to an end.
Sincerely,
This post was modified from its original form on 06 Aug, 5:46
Completely appalling and makes me feel sick to my stomach!
All actions taken, still crying
Thank you Monika! Thank you Anneke!

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Kim- 2 hours ago - theperfectworld.com

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Harshiita- 6 minutes ago - skdogcatcampaign.com
https://secure.registration.olympic.org/en/faq/ask-question
Please copy/ paste 1000 characters in this webform from the petitionletter found under:
http://www.change.org/petitions/boycott-pyeongchang-2018-winter-olympics-in-south-korea-a-dog-eating-nation?utm_campaign=friend_inviter_action_box&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=share_petition&utm_term=11872970&goback=.gde_1921393_member_140690771
This post was modified from its original form on 02 Aug, 5:17
Thank you very much Tasunka for supporting this cause !
Jeju Island of S. Korea! Punish the "Dog Truck from Hell" and ban the dog meat trade!
EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So upsetting,between the dog meat and horse meat petitions,and the most horrendous pictures I've seen since the holocaust, I am so upset.
I can't find enough petitions to ease the grief.
thanks dog lovers,I just keep thinking what if it were my lost dog?

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Jutta- 1 hour ago - soidog.org Thanks Anneke for the forward !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oro0E7medmQ&feature=plcp
Help them please... 2, 000 Thai Dogs saved from dinner tables, but still in danger
This video has nothing to do with the new rescue.
This is the latest tragedy of Thai dogs which happened (again & again ) in the early morning on Sat.28-July-12 , The amount poor dogs that were rescued this time were 779 dogs. After they were rescued... they were transfered to Nakorn Phanom's shelter in the same day. The dogs looks so terrible, scary, hungry and very weak. After we took them out of the cages from the truck, we found out 18 dogs already passed away because they couldn't stand with their painful, so today (28-July-12) we have the total amount of alive 761 dogs.This shelter now have more than 1,300 dogs at the moment. We need your urgent help by buying dog's food or donation to help these poor dogs survive & get the better live asap. You can use my Bank Account as below in order to transfer money for dog's food buying & any useful things for the NP dogs directly to me. Thank you in advance for your mercy to our best human's friend.
please help the poor dogs - bitte helft den armen hunden - the dogs need food - die hunde brauchen futter - for donation, für spenden - bee`s bank konto incl iban and swift ....
IBAN: KASIKORNBANK Public Company Limited (KBANK)
SWIFT : KASITHBK
Kasikorn Bank A/C : 738-2-66864-7 (Siam Paragon Branch)
Miss Witchuda Pothaworn Bank Address : 1, Soi Ratburana 27/1 , Ratburana Rd, Ratburana Subdistrict, Ratburana District,Bangkok 10140
Tel: (66 2) 222-0000 ,
Fax: (66 2) 470- 2749
This paypal address has been approved in the past to use for donations:
tontopepper@yahoo.com.sg.
Kindly please end the amount with 1, .1 or .01 because we also helping another DMT dogs in Khemarat shelter in the same time ***
For those who want to use Paypal for donation, I'm sorry that I haven't got it at the moment, but if that help you guys feel much easy , you can also donate via K-9 Angels paypal. just make sure you state it is for the Thai Rescued Dogs. ( K-9 Angels is a UK based non profit organisation ) Anneka Tanaka who runs this one is going to help me by transfer all those money to my account later again.
You can visit her page at www.facebook.com/K9AngelsFor the reference of previous big tragedy 2,400 Thai dogs in DMT in August last year, please visit https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150290625260559.362763.679090558&type=3
1200+ dogs rescued from dog meat smugglers.
http://english.president.go.kr/common/email.php copy/paste letter below in the webform
Honorable President Lee Myung-bak,
We will boycott S. Korea and S. Korean businesses until your illegal slaughterhouse is closed down and S. Korea takes animal rights seriously and ends the shameful dog meat trade once and for all.
Please visit these links. These images inhumane are unworthy of a civilized country.
http://animalrightskorea.org/dog-meat-issue/dog-meat-market-undercover-video.html
http://article.joinsmsn.com/news/article/article.asp?total_id=8634282&cloc=olink|article|default
SAD UPDATE:
Only 2 dogs could be saved from the trucks...![]()
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Wed Jul 25, 2012 3:16 am (PDT) .
Read update and see photos here:
http://koreandogs.org/?p=1976.
Please sign and share these petitions to help stop the torture and consumption of dogs and cats in S. Korea.
http://koreandogs.org/?page_id=1512
This post was modified from its original form on 25 Jul, 14:47
So sad....so horrible! Stolen dogs on a cruise ship? Unbelievable! Poor, poor dogs
Those pics will haunt me
[Urgent] S. Koreans: Do you know anyone of these dogs? Dog truck transported on a cruise ship from Jeju to Mokpo
July 23,2012
Photos: (Warning, disturbing images!)
Up to date, July 24. Thanks Monika!
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Patricia- 1 hour ago - secure2.convio.net

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KELLY- 3 hours ago - change.org
Up to date. Thanks Monika!
Signed, of course. Merci Monika!
"To say nothing, to do nothing, stops nothing" ~ Roni McCall
Checked the list. All previously signed. Thanks Monika!
PHUKET: The Soi Dog Foundation has launched the Trade of Shame Campaign in a bid to raise awareness of the growing dog meat trade across Asia.
The Thai Veterinary Medical Association estimate as many as 500,000 Thai dogs per year make the one way trip to Vietnam and Southern China where they are butchered by cruel and barbaric methods.
John Dalley, the founder of Soi Dog Foundation said, “The conditions under which the dogs are transported and slaughtered are horrific and many die from suffocation long before they reach their final destination. In reality these are the lucky ones.”
He added that although there was no concrete evidence, he had reason to suspect that dog-rustling was taking place on the island, “There is no evidence of the rustlers operating in Phuket, though some local people believe that the disappearance of the large number of dogs removed from Patong Beach in May 2011 may have gone there.
“Soi Dog Foundation have plenty of evidence showing that local dogs, particularly black ones, have been snatched by migrant workers for local consumption in labour camps on the island. This is most prevalent around New Year and owners should keep their dogs secure during this period.”
The current law for the illegal export of live animals and carcasses allows up to a 2 year jail sentence and B40,000 fine.
The Trade of Shame Campaign needs the help of everybody to raise awareness and stop this cruel trade before any other dogs are killed.
You can help raise awareness by liking and sharing the Trade of Shame Facebook page: facebook.com/TradeofShame
http://www.thephuketnews.com/shaming-the-trading-of-phuket-dog-meat-31273.php
Petition in French (Française):
http://www.change.org/petitions/core-de-sud-arrtez-de-tuer-des-chiens-s-korea-stop-killing-dogs
Email writing campaign - Please help end the dog meat trade in S. Korea! https://www.facebook.com/events/201803673265130/
Petition to request maximum punishment for the scumbag that dragged a dog to death in S. Korea:
http://www.change.org/petitions/s-korean-police-re-open-the-case-of-a-man-who-dragged-a-beagle-to-death
http://www.careanimalrights.org/dog-dragged-to-death/
Petition to request maximum punishment for the monster who burned a dog alive in Gimje, S. Korea:
http://www.change.org/petitions/punish-the-man-who-burned-a-dog-alive-strengthen-s-korea-s-animal-protection-laws
Letter to Director of Animal Welfare, Kyo-Young, Seo to enforce Korea's Animal Protection Law! (Scroll down for the English text):
http://www.careanimalrights.org/you-young-ahn/
Deliver maximum punishment for the monk responsible for Jang-goon's death: http://www.change.org/petitions/director-of-animal-welfare-deliver-maximum-punishment-for-animal-cruelty
A collection of petitions my friend Daphne sent to me:
Petitions:
http://www.uniteddogs.com/stopkillingdogs/
http://www.change.org/petitions/boycott-pyeongchang-2018-winter-olympics-in-south-korea-a-dog-eating-nation
https://www.change.org/petitions/boycott-hyundaikia-samsung-lg-until-s-korea-bans-the-dog-and-cat-torture-and-consumption
https://www.change.org/petitions/boycott-s-korea-dogs-and-cats-are-part-of-family-not-food
http://www.change.org/petitions/boycott-s-korea-until-they-stop-the-torturing-and-eating-companion-animals
http://www.change.org/petitions/south-korea-stop-the-brutal-torture-of-dogs-and-dog-meat-consumption
http://www.change.org/petitions/stop-the-miserable-lives-and-tortured-death-of-dogs-and-cats-in-south-korea
http://www.change.org/petitions/please-stop-the-torture-and-consumption-of-dogs-and-cats-in-south-korea
http://www.change.org/petitions/south-korea-stop-animal-abuse-in-south-korea?utm_medium=faceb%E2%80%8Book&utm_source=share_petition&%E2%80%8Butm_term=friends_wall
https://secure2.convio.net/ida/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2169
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/6/stop-the-dog-meat-trade-in-korea/
http://www.causes.com/causes/37265-kaps-korean-animal-protection-society
http://www.causes.com/causes/644952-stop-the-dog-and-cat-consumption-in-s-korea
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/ban-dog-meat-and-cat-soup-in-korea.html
http://forcechange.com/20557/save-cats-and-dogs-in-south-korea-from-brutal-deaths/#gf_1
Petitions in Spanish (Español):
http://www.change.org/petitions/boicot-de-corea-del-sur-hasta-que-dejen-de-comer-los-animales-de-compaa
http://www.change.org/petitions/corea-del-sur-por-favor-detener-la-tortura-y-el-consumo-de-perros-y-gatos
http://www.change.org/petitions/corea-del-sur-detener-la-brutal-tortura-de-perros-y-el-consumo-de-carne-de-perro
http://www.change.org/petitions/corea-del-sur-detener-la-vida-imposible-y-la-muerte-torturado-de-perros-y-gatos
http://www.change.org/petitions/corea-del-sur-stop-animal-abuse-en-corea-del-sur
Petitions in German (Deutsch):
http://www.change.org/petitions/boykott-sdkorea-bis-sie-die-folterung-und-essen-heimtieren-zu-stoppen
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signed all i missed. Thanks Minika.
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