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Subject: World Congress for Korean Politics and Society. Rebuild
‘trust’ by removing the ‘obstacles’ of the dog and cat meat
trades
Dear Delegates of the World Congress for Korean Politics and Society:
Your forthcoming World Congress for Korean Politics and Society (June
22-24, Seoul, South Korea) notes its theme as being one to rebuild “Trust in
Peace and Democracy”.
Scholars and professionals will be brought together from around the world
to discuss “innovative ways” of overcoming the “serious obstacles to political
stability, economic justice, and social integration”.
In preparation for this event, we ask you to, please, take a minute to
watch these videos of South Korea’s dog meat industry:
Given the growing strength of opposition to the dog and cat meat trades,
both within South Korea and throughout the world, this Congress represents a
unique opportunity to achieve its objective of rebuilding trust and
strengthening social integration, by supporting and finding a way to put a
permanent end to the dog and cat meat trades – unregulated trades that are
promoted by archaic beliefs that eating dog meat products enhances male
virility, amongst other fallacies.
Aberrant trades in which dogs and cats are forced to endure unimaginable
torment and deprivation from the moment they are born until the day they are
barbarically slaughtered.
These animals are imprisoned in cramped cages with no access to water or
exercise, they are hanged, beaten or burnt to death, often in front of other
deeply distressed animals, due to the misguided, and disproved, belief that the
more the animal suffers the more it increases the health benefits to the
consumer.
Dog meat consumption is currently illegal in South Korea, yet despite
indigenous and international opposition it is allowed to continue.
The majority of South Korean citizens do not want to be associated with the
consumption of companion animals, and the brutal slaughter of dogs across South
Korea is severely tarnishing (whether justifiably or not) the names of leading
South Korean companies.
Indeed there are a growing number of international campaigns to boycott
South Korean goods and tourism until the government puts an end to these
abhorrent trades.
In addition to the many social, environmental, and health problems
associated with dog meat consumption, it is also in South Korea’s interests to
end these trades as the world will not stop its condemnation for such unchecked
cruelty.
I therefore urge you to, please, take this opportunity to help bring an end
to the inhumanity of the dog and cat meat trades by supporting their
abolition.
South Korea has many noble and admirable customs worth promoting and
preserving – the torture and consumption of companion animals is not one of
them.
Thank you,
Sincerely:
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