Olympic Athletes Save Pets From the South Korean Dog Meat Trade

Countries who allow this kind of animal cruelty deserve a boycott and should be outlawed, they should not be allowed to host Olympic games and other events like this which make them profit. They are shifting their self created problems and hope to get help from people and countries which have more empathy towards animals to get, without having to rethink their habits and change. This is really pathetic and cheap! Many asian countries are extreme with this and I would never travel in such a country to leave my Forex there and I boycott these countries wherever and whenever I can! However, I must admit that Western countries are also not much better within the treatment of their livestock (factory farming, long-term animal transport, export of live animals) and some "humans" are really cruel towards their pets (abusers of pets, neglecting, starvation). It is therefore needed, around the world in General to reconsider the behavior towards animals and to develop more compassion, to introduce fairer animal attitude, proper treatment of animals, with stronger protection laws and to get away from this behavior at all.

Don't you just love Meagan Duhamel??!! I'm grateful to her and all others who are rescuing dogs from such a horrible fate. Wish South Korea would never be able to host anything again.

@ Alessio Genovesse : What is cultural heritage on raising dogs / cats by the thousands, to boil them ALIVE, and put it on your platter. In the mediaval time, it was cultural to chop off someone's hands if he had stolen things.... or their tongues were cut off when they had lied, etc... Also when people considered you were a devil, then you were burned... Do we still have to consider this as a historical cultural heritage, and do the same in the 21st century. Well in any case it wld be a solution for the prisons, who actually are lacking lots of places.... But barbarism has NOTHING to do with cultural heritage !! This is totally different !!!!!!!

@ MARY Jane : You are totally correct. 99 % of the people try to dill all kind of insects and other small creatures by all means. I have always collected my insects in my home. With a transparent plastic cup and a piece of cardboard. Simply put the cup over the insect, slide the cardboard sheet under it, and bring all outside, where you can easily release them in your garden. Each animal is a creature of GOD, and can live with / next to us. They also have their own roll to play in the ecology. So what right do we have to smash hem under our shoes ?? NONE !!

@ Maggie Davey : If this is correct, then Royal Canin should be boycotted in every pet shop and their products for dog & mat meat should stay in the shops. Of course commercially it is a win/win situation. A factory for dog / cat meat right next to a puppy / kitten mill. You sell the best pieces to restaurants and for human consumption in the supermarkets, and the rest you use to make pet food. HEAVENLY DISGUSTING !!

@ Crissie S : OMG, So upset to read that in the U.S, in 44 states it is allowed to eat cat and dog meat as well. Unbelievable. I know that in W. Europe (and certainly all over the world) cats and dogs were caught from neighbors / rich farmers and the wealthy people by a lot of people who had nothing to put on the table for their kids. I remember by grandma telling me that they took all they could to have some proteins on the table. Rats, mice, all kind of small birds, etc.. In such circumstances, you can not blame people. It is a bloody difficult choice you have to make. Have a good soup of mice and rat meat, with bread and veggies from the garden (if you were lucky and the Germans did not pick everything from yr small garden) or see your children die from starvation.

Is it good that this athlete adopted a dog, meant to be eaten, and took it home as a pet ? And most probably will do the same this year. Yes and No ! Many of her colleagues and other athletes will feel good when adopting such "meat-dog". Consequently, this trade will enlarge. Trillions of Dollars are spent for the organization of a 2-week int'l event, while a few miles away, thousands of people live in their tiny poor houses / flats and are now homeless, as was the case in Mexico. Under the cover of more tourism / big hotels, huge villas, etc.. to make the rich reven richer and the poor even poorer and homeless.
First clean before yr own door, and fight by all means all the cruelties that happen on a daily basis to chickens, cows, goats, sheep, rabbits, and a lot more, whose meat we put on our tables "en mass" each day instead of adopting a poor Korean Dog from a puppy mill. Recently I was really disgusted : I went to a 20 year marriage jubilee, of my son and the main course was steak. The girl only asked whether we wanted it red, medium or well cooked. When the platters arrived, I saw to my great disgust 3 huge pieces of approx 150 grams each on our platter. REALLY DISGUSTING. I'm NOT a vegetarian nor a vegan, but keep my consumption very low and, when possible, from local breeders. I left 2 portions on my my platter and my heart was crying !!

Thomas D. Just shut up about "culture", let's have all the serial killers and terrorists in the world be excused by saying they were just following their "culture" Undoubtedly you would tell them it's a perfectly valid excuse and let them scurry off to behead more children. Anyone who smugly sits there and points their blood dripping fingers at other abuses in the world while sawing off the heads off children and boiling their dogs alive should be make to know that strategy wont work either. South Korea is a CRIMINAL nation because ATROCITIES are sanctioned by their government. These are not isolated incidents by psycho South Koreans. This is a crime sponsored by everyone who represents South Korea. Let's give South Korea another Hiroshima after rescuing the animals from their insane claws, maybe we can excuse it by calling it the "nuclear culture"

Seriously, if they are to only hold an Olympics in a country that doesn’t mistreat animals, they can’t hold it anywhere. This is exactly the same thing being done in the United States to cows and chickens. So we shouldn’t hold an Olympics or compete in it until we total ban meat comsumption? Some folks need to get a clue. We torture cows, they torture dogs. It’s a cultural difference, that for sure needs to change, but don’t throw stones as the saying goes, when you are participating in the slaughter.

good lady