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U.S. Residents: Oppose Korea's Torture of Animals
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    Otero County, NM
About this Petition Petition Letter

Dear friends, following is a variation on a letter provided by Kinship Circle. For additional information, please visit http://www.kinshipcircle.org/letter_library/letter_new2.asp?LetterID=1890&seriesfirst=true and http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/68403-obama-wants-south-korean-trade-agreement-next-year.

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Please Vote NO on U.S.-Korea Trade Agreement

Dear President Obama and Honorable Congressmen,

Please register my firm opposition to the U.S.-South Korea Free Trade Agreement. Labor unions and automakers oppose the accord as written, as do many Democrats who want South Korea to eliminate blockades to U.S. auto exports.

Furthermore, South Korea selectively complies with its own laws and misleads the global community. Government corruption is particularly evident in its application of animal welfare policy. For example, South Korea is the only nation to openly slaughter cats and dogs for human consumption. It fails to uphold its own Food Sanitation Law of 1984, which bans dog broths (boshintang) as "disgusting foods." Some two million dogs are butchered for their meat every year.

Gentle animals, historically bred as loyal companions to people, are systematically tortured to "tenderize" their tissue and expel the adrenaline believed to act as a sexual aphrodisiac when eaten. Their bones are slowly broken with pipes and hammers. They suffer bloodletting, live dismemberment, hangings, boiling, and more.

U.S. voters, myself included, oppose favored status for a nation that not only consumes cats and dogs but deliberately torments them as well. Please do not confirm the U.S.-South Korea Free Trade Agreement. Thank you.

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