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Petition to Korean Officials urging them to enforce the Animal Protection Act
  1. Signatures
    185 out of 1,000
    Petitioning
    1. Prime Minister (+ 2 others)
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      • Prime Minister (His Excellency Han Myeong Sook)
      • Embassy of the Republic of Korea (Ambassador Lee Tae-Sik)
      • Korean National Tourism Organization (Korean National Tourism Organization)
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    holmen, WI
About this Petition Petition Letter







to Korean Officials urging them to enforce the Animal Protection Act




What You Can Do






Please contact the Korean National






Tourism Organization and the






Ambassador of the Republic of Korea.






Ask them to urge the Korean






government to enforce existing laws






prohibiting the trade in dog and cat






meat.









“I asked






about the eating of






dogs and was told over and






over again that it didn’t happen






anymore. You can imagine my shock






and horror upon getting lost in one of the






huge markets in downtown Taegu. I






looked down and saw the head of a dog






with its legs stuffed in its mouth. I saw






limbs that were skinned. Everywhere I






turned there were dogs in cages. The






smell was overwhelming. That market,






that sweltering hot August day, was what






I envisioned hell to be like.”






- An American teacher






in South Korea






Illegal and unsanitary dog farms are hidden away in the countryside where breeders






raise their stock for the butchers. 30% are stolen from families who love them.The






rest are homeless dogs, captured by butchers and sold in open markets. Dogs are






electrocuted, strangled, or bludgeoned to death.The dirty industry is proliferated by






the myth that dog meat is health




 


Where do these dogs and cats come from?


 


In spite of a 1991 law that prohibits the human consumption






of dogs and cats, a flourishing industry exists within the markets






of South Korea.




 


Cats


are also consumed in Korea.While many Koreans regard dogs as companions,






cats are often looked upon as pests and thus suffer worse cruelty.

Companions and






strays alike may be killed by being placed in sacks and pounded against the ground.






Sometimes, while still alive, cats are thrown into large pots of boiling water and






cooked until liquefied into Òcat juice,Ó which dealers claim will cure rheumatism






 Hell On EARTH for the animals in Korea!






 






What YOU can do:






Those of us who care so deeply about our fellow beings can't allow this agony and terror to continue for "man's best friend." That's why I'm asking for your help today.

 Fill out the petition
 Fill the petition urging South Korean officials to enforce existing laws to protect dogs.

Recent Signatures

Petition to Korean Officials urging them to enforce the Animal Protection Act

Dear Sir's

Dear President Lee:</p>






<p>I am horrified at the continued torture and consumption of Korea's companion animals.
Even with the 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).</p>






<p>PLEASE IMMEDIATELY ENFORCE THE FOLLOWING:</p>






<p>The Ministry of Education&rsquo;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 Korean myths surrounding their species.</p>






<p>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.</p>






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






<p>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.</p>






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






<p><em>Signed,
Your name
Your address </em></p>









<p>It is terribly disheartening that the Korean Government has laws in place to protect dogs and cats from abuse but it carelessly ignores its own laws. Two million South Korean dogs are electrocuted, strangled, or bludgeoned to death each year. They are killed in the cruelest ways imaginable, because many Koreans believe the adrenaline that rushes through the system will improve virility.</p>






<p>While the practice of eating dogs is not widely accepted in Korea, it is up to the Korean government to ensure that it is completely eradicated. Caring people should not sit back while dogs are beaten to death "to make their flesh taste better."</p>






<p>Please use your voice to contact the government of South Korea and demand immediate action.

[Your name]

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