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Butchering of Dogs and Cats in South Korea
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    1. Embassy of the Republic of South Korea (+ 4 others)
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      • Embassy of the Republic of South Korea
      • Prime Minister's Office
      • Korea Tourism
      • Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
      • Ministry of Education
  2. Created By
    Carin Zellerman
    Stockholm, Sweden
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Two million South Korean dogs are electrocuted, strangled, or bludgeoned to death each year. They are boiled, skinned, browned by a torch, chopped up and eaten. Thirty percent are stolen from families that love them. Most are homeless dogs, captured by butchers and sold in open markets.

July 6 is the Day of Action for South Korean Dogs. Please write letters to South Korean Officials urging them to stop the cruel butchering of dogs and cats for human consumption.

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Recent Signatures

Stop eating dogs and cats

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am horrified at the continued torture and consumption of South Korea's companion animals.
Even with the South Korean Animal Protection Law for cats and dogs and a Ministry of Health Law banning the consumption of dog-meat soup (boshintang), dogs are still beaten, electrocuted, skinned alive and slaughtered by the thousands for boshintang while cats are still beaten and boiled alive for rheumatism remedies (goyangi soju).

PLEASE IMMEDIATELY ENFORCE THE FOLLOWING:

The Ministry of Education’s requirement to introduce and maintain a public education campaign to teach modern, internationally accepted general-care knowledge of cats and dogs, including the importance of spay-neuter surgery and to address the many unfounded South Korean myths surrounding their species.

The Ministry of Agriculture's duty of office to outlaw the slaughter of cats and dogs as well as their "passing the buck" to the Ministry of Health.

The Ministry of Health's duty of office to uphold and enforce South Korea's current law which bans dog-meat soup, as well as their "passing the buck" to the Ministry of Agriculture.

The allocation, through the Ministry of Finance, of reasonable budgets to the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Agriculture, and the Ministry of Health to carry out their official responsibilities on behalf of not only cats and dogs, but other animals as well.

I WILL NOT BUY KOREAN GOODS, SUPPORT KOREAN BUSINESS, OR VISIT KOREA UNTIL KOREANS STOP EATING DOGS AND CATS.

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