Your Holiness the Dalai Lama, please speak out against the brutal, cruel Dog and Cat meat trade!

From: http://koreandogs.org/dalai-lama/

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To:  ohhdl@dalailama.com

Subject:  Your Holiness the Dalai Lama, please speak out against the cruel Dog and Cat meat trade!

 

The Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Thekchen Choeling

P.O. McLeod Ganj

Dharamsala

Himachal Pradesh (H.P.) 176219

India

 

Your Holiness,

 

We ask Your Holiness to please watch the videos of South Korea’s dog meat industry:

http://youtu.be/3uR8R8Mu70Q

 

Each year, around 30 million dogs are slaughtered and eaten in Asia, including Korea, China, Indonesia and Vietnam. In South Korea alone, it is estimated that, annually, 2.5 million dogs and thousands of cats are brutally slaughtered and eaten.

 

Dogs that are bred on dog farms live in miserable conditions. In South Korea, dog meat consumption is illegal but their government is allowing it to continue, thereby causing immense suffering to these animals. All breeds of dog are used for meat, including stolen pets and abandoned dogs.

They are confined to small, filthy cages, given rotten food and scraps which are unfit for consumption, denied space to exercise, and given no shelter from extreme weather conditions.

They cannot even feel the ground beneath their paws as they are contained in wire cages, raised off the ground. These conditions are deplorable and cruel.

 

Dogs are slaughtered in the most brutal and painful methods, often in front of other dogs which watch in fear for their lives. They are beaten, stabbed, hanged, butchered, thrown into pots of boiling water, skinned, electrocuted or blow torched – often whilst still alive. This inhumane torture has to stop.

 

Your Holiness, you teach that all violence is injustice, and we ask Your Holiness, therefore, to speak out against the violence that is perpetrated daily in South Korea within the dog meat trade, where animals are subjected to barbaric acts of torture and unimaginable suffering.

 

We respectfully ask Your Holiness to stand up for the animals in South Korea, and in other Asian countries where dogs are consumed, and also to publicly voice support in favor of ending the dog meat trade.

 

We ask Your Holiness to stand with KoreanDogs.Org, and to share Your Holiness’s condemnation of this cruel trade.

We ask Your Holiness to educate people that a compassionate society benefits everyone within it. An online petition calling for your support in ending the horrendous dog and cat meat cruelty is in progress:

https://www.change.org/p/his-holiness-the-14th-dalai-lama-his-holiness-the-14th-dalai-lama-please-speak-out-against-the-brutal-dog-meat-trade

 

Thank you in advance for your response.

Yours sincerely,