PGA Tour and the Presidents Cup Participants: Tell South Korea, That You’re Opposed to the Torture and Consumption of Dogs and Cats.

The 2015 Presidents Cup will be played at Jack Nicklaus Golf Club Korea, in Songdo IBD, Incheon City, Korea, October 8 -11, 2015. As K.J. Choi stated at the November 2011 press conference announcing the decision to hold this prestigious event in South Korea, it is a great honor that is not only a boost for golf but for Korea’s overall national brand image.

There is another image for South Korea, home of global companies such as Hyundai/Kia, Samsung, LG, Daewoo, and POSCO, but this image is not a prestigious one nor is it an honorable one. It is an image that South Korea attempts to keep hidden from the rest of the world, and we are hoping to bring an awareness of this image to all participants of the 2015 Presidents Cup.

Every year, an estimated 2.5 million dogs are tortured and slaughtered as a result of the dog meat industry and consumers who eat the meat of these poor animals. Dogs bred on dog meat farms exist for their entire lives in squalid, feces-encrusted raised wire cages in utter misery only to be slaughtered in the most horrific of ways – by electrocution, a hammer blow to the neck, hangings and beatings, bleeding to death from a slashed throat, burning to death from a blowtorch, or being thrown into a vat of boiling water while still alive. They are being butchered in full view of other dogs cowering terrified in cages, in public and in broad daylight.

We are asking that you, as a participant of the 2015 Presidents Cup, help bring an awareness of this barbaric industry to the attention of the world, and to use your influence to urge the South Korean government to stop the shameful dog meat trade immediately.

This undercover video by animal rights activists in South Korea will show you first hand the brutality inflicted upon man’s best friend: http://youtu.be/3uR8R8Mu70Q

Help us to give a voice to these poor defenseless animals because, in the words of Martin Luther King Jr., “The time is always right to do what’s right.” 

The favor of your reply is requested.

Thank you.

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