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Subject: South Korea, September 2015
Dear
United Nations Organization,
Sir, Madam:
Please watch this video: http://youtu.be/3uR8R8Mu70Q
The $2 billion dollar-a-year South Korean dog and cat meat industry takes
the lives of approximately two and a half million dogs a year for meat or
gaesoju, a dog wine or broth, and thousands of despised and doomed cats for
so-called “health” tonics or goyangyeesoju, and soup.
It operates in a sordid and illicit world where farmers and butchers kill
with frightening impunity in the most abominable fashion.
Dogs are killed by hanging and with high-voltage electrocution, which takes
anywhere from thirty seconds to three minutes.
At times they are even beaten to death at the request of customers who
believe the meat more tender and tastier the greater the suffering (one of the
most pernicious of myths), and that the so-called medicinal properties are
enhanced.
They are most often killed within sight of their cage mates. They are then
thrown into a tub of boiling water, often still alive, and then into a rotating
drum for the removal of their fur, and finally blow torched.
At the Moran Market, South Korea’s largest open air-market for dog meat,
dog carcasses are on display next to the cages of live dogs. Cats are often
bludgeoned and thrown into boiling water while still alive.
At the farms, dogs are fed germ-infested, rotting, and fermented human
leftovers, a health risk to both the dogs and those who eat them.
In South Korea, dogs and cats’ lives are short and miserable until they
tremble no more at the hands of their slaughterers as cage mates look on.
Read more: http://koreandogs.org/
In addition to the unspeakable cruelty perpetrated by the dog meat trade is
also a serious threat to human health and the environment.
The dog farms are a hotbed for infectious diseases. Since there is no
disease control, these dogs suffer from highly infectious and transmittable
bacteria, virus, ectoparasites, endoparasites, and fungi. Out of 165 dogs bred
at a dog farm in Seoul area, 83 dogs(50.3%) were found to be infected with
endoparasites and 23 dogs(20.2%) were found to be infected with
heartworms.
Puppies suffer from malnutrition because they are fed rotting food waste
(infested with pests such as rats, cockroaches, flies..) after being weaned.
In order to hide from the law and civil complaints, most dog farms are
located in remote areas where the sun is scarce causing a vitamin D (necessary
for bone growth) deficiency.
Locked in cages for months, dogs are bored and stressed from being packed
with other dogs and having to breath in constant stench. Stress hormones weaken
their immune system and they become susceptible to hormonal diseases such as
hyperadrenocorticism.
Antibiotics, antidiarrheal treatments and steroids are used to control
measles, parvovirus, various respiratory and digestive diseases but the abuse of
drugs led to an increasing tolerance against antibiotics and to the relevant
health problems.
In some cases, ten times the normal doses were being administered by the
farmers themselves without the supervision of a veterinarian.
Large doses of heavy metals that accumulated in the organs causing internal
body malfunctions are detected in dog meat. Heavy metals are assumed to have
been accumulated from eating leftover food waste and low-end feed (remains from
slaughter houses).
Many serious and often life threatening diseases can be attributable to
this unsanitary and inhumane dog meat industry. They include animal bites and
scratches, Bubonic Plague, Camphylobacter, Cutaneous larval migrans, Giardiasis,
Lyme Disease, Psittacosis, Rabies, Salmonellosis, Shigellosis, Visceral Larva
Migrans, Anthrax, Bebesiosis, Brucellosis, Colibacilosis,… Read the extensive
research report by KARA (Korea Animal Rights Advocates) http://koreandogs.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/KARA-Dog-Meat-Report_English-1.pdf
Please watch these videos and see what is going on inside S. Korea at this
moment:
S. Korea’s Dog Meat Trade: Eating sick dogs and former pet dogs: http://youtu.be/A3WNJFd1Cl0
S Korea’s Dangerous Health Food – Inconvenient Truth About Dog Meat 1 of 2
with English Captions: http://youtu.be/vHB3uwB9kyA
S Korea’s Dangerous Health Food – Inconvenient Truth About Dog Meat 2 of 2
with English Captions: http://youtu.be/foHCBNllT8w
Read the reports by CARE (Coexistence of Animal Rights on Earth):
You say there is a difference? A perception of South Korea’s Dog Meat
Industry: http://www.careanimalrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/sh.pdf
What you should know about the dog meat industry in South Korea: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/lf66kyl8jfisfn0/rRS6gjih5h/Press%20Package%20Folder%20%28Public%29/English%20Materials/FAQ_English.pdf
There is no appropriate animal-protection legislation to prevent the animal
cruelty currently taking place in S. Korea.
As someone who believes strongly that animals should not be treated in this
way, I request that your organization investigate and address this issue
immediately.
Please sanction the S. Korean government until they strengthen the Animal
Protection Law to prevent animal cruelty and to introduce basic
animal-protection regulations. It must also provide penalties for violations and
ensure that mistreated animals can be legally seized from abusers and given
immediate refuge.
I request that the United Nations strongly urge the S. Korean Government to
create an enforceable law to ban the torture, killing, sale, and consumption of
dogs and cats. Please don’t let the S. Korean government get away with this
outrageous cruelty to companion animals.
Thank you for your attention!
Sincerely:
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To: agd@agd.sa.gov.au ; minister.gago@sa.gov.au ; Minister.Health@health.sa.gov.au
; minister.koutsantonis@sa.gov.au
; ministerhunter@sa.gov.au ; ministerpiccolo@sa.gov.au ; ministerleonbignell@sa.gov.au ;
OfficeofMinister.Hamilton-Smith@sa.gov.au
; pirsa.ministerbrock@sa.gov.au ;
pirsa.ministerbrock@sa.gov.au ;
minister.bettison@dcsi.sa.gov.au
; minister.close@sa.gov.au ; ministermullighan@sa.gov.au ; ministermaher@sa.gov.au ,
Subject: South Korea, September 2015
Dear Hon. Premier Jay Weatherill and the Ministers of South
Australia:
Please watch the below undercover video from your Sister state,
Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea: https://youtu.be/9cfDt1_NNvY
South Australia should not be a sister state to any province that allows
dogs and cats to be tortured and eaten.
Please urge Chungcheongnam-do Governor Hee-Jung Ahn to close down all
illegal dog farms and slaughterhouses, markets, truckers and restaurants who
serve their products.
An online petition calling for your support in ending the horrendous South
Korean dog and cat meat cruelty is in progress: https://goo.gl/tochZR
The favor of your reply is requested.
Thank you,
Sincerely:
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