HELP STOP THIS SOUTH KOREAN OUTRAGE!

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6/03/01

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HELP STOP THIS SOUTH KOREAN OUTRAGE

 

JOIN KYENANS' MISSION TO SAVE THE ANIMALS

 

 

Animals In Print is bringing you this special issue,

There's A. Dog In The Stew, to inform you of the

horrific situation which is now taking place in South

Korea.

 

Today I have dedicated this issue to reaffirming our

dedication in assisting Kyenan Kum and her sister in

ending this horror. She has been unrelenting in her

dedication to end this practice. Called a traitor by

her country, she has stood firm in exposing the

plights of these animals, the domestic dog and cat.

 

A few months ago she received an award for her work

and the film documentary that depicted the Korean

practice of torturing and consuming these animals and

it was televised She has come a long way from the

grass root movements of 1998 to front stage. She is

now recognized as a power to be rendered with and has

attracted many supporters. Once a demure, quiet woman

saving animals as she could in her home country, she

is now a wonderful beacon of hope for all that still

suffer.

 

Please read the following article and join her in her

final year of battle.

 

NOTE: At the end of my article I will provide links

and a petition and suggestions on how you can help.

 

QUOTE by KYENAN " By rallying together to protest these

abuses, we have been able to make effective change.

Through international protests the Korean government

passed the Animal Protection Law in 1991. If we show

our support of the companion animals of Korea, we can

expect effective amendments to the existing Law and

the end to the torture, slaughter, and consumption of

dogs and cats in Korea "

 

Animals In Print Presents

 

" There's A Dog In The Stew! "

 

 

Today, in violation of the Korean Animals Protection

Act, two million dogs are raised or trapped for human

consumption. Approximately 30% of these dogs are or

were family pets, sharing their lives with humans they

loved and trusted.

 

Many people have the impression that dog consumption

is a traditional Korean food, this is anything but

true. Up until the last 600 years Koreans were mostly

Buddhist and living under the Koryo dynasty. The

people were encouraged to eat a meat free diets.

 

When this dynasty came to an end a new country was

formed, Korea. Though taking its name from the now

defunct dynasty a new belief system and lifestyle

began. In the last few hundred years there was a few

people that did eat dog though it is was never a

cultural habit.

 

About 50 years ago poverty was severe in South Korea.

At this time the extremely impoverished people, did

begin to consume dogs. This was not a normal eating

habit.

 

Twenty-five years ago a new trend began to take shape

the dog meat industry began to flourish. How did this

happen?

 

Certainly not because of hunger, but due to a false

belief system that by consuming the meat of a TORTURED

DOG a man may increase his sexual virility. This

caused dog flesh to became especially popular and a

status symbol among the wealthy. Believing the

adrenaline in the tissues of the tortured, slain

canine would somehow exert profound effects upon their

manhood they demand for this meat grew.

 

this belief has provided great financial opportunities

for dog meat dealers. With millions of dollars to be

made, illegal dog farms abound. The government looks

the other way while these innocent, trusting creatures

are brutalized.

 

Dogs are usually raised on illegal, rural dog farms,

but any dog is actually fair game. Stray and abandoned

dogs don't last long in Korea. The dogs are kept in

squalor, they are crammed in wire cages too small for

even one dog to be comfortable. The situation is

unbearable for these trusting animals. They become

dehydrated from lack of proper food and water. They

are forced to live in their own wastes and have no

protection from extreme weather.

 

These dogs are exceptionally vulnerable to diseases,

especially distemper and are quickly sold to markets

or consumers before they appear ill. Because of this,

the usual age of slaughter is between eighth months

and a one year.

 

When the dogs are of age they are transported to large

open markets. The Hyundai, with its spaciousness, is a

favorite vehicle of transportation, accommodating the

large cages crammed with dogs. The dogs can be seen

piled on top of one another as they travel toward

their doom.

 

They usually go to one of the three largest market

places, The Chilsung Market in Taegu City, the Gupo

Market in Pusan City, and the Moran Market in Sungnam

City. Dogs are also sold in other smaller market

places throughout out Korea. They can also be found

behind restaurants, alive and crammed into small

cages, waiting their turn to be tortured and

slaughtered.

 

In the larger markets the dogs are transferred from

the vehicles to large cages that can hold up to 800

terrified and confused animals. Most of the dogs in

the market place closely resemble each other as they

are descendants of generations of interbreeding.

Through all of this many of the dogs, once family

pets, remain docile and hopeful, wagging their tales

when approached by humans.

 

The market place is a cramped area filled with dogs.

Cars are parked in random fashion and people can be

seen walking about selecting their dog.

 

Once a person makes his selection the dog is dragged

by a noose around its neck from its cage and purposely

tortured till it is allowed to die.

 

The dog, chosen for sale and slaughter, may be hung,

beaten with pipes or hammers and strangled repeatedly.

During this atrocity, the dogs my be heard yelping,

screaming and howling in agony as they struggle

against their captors.

 

When the dog is assumed dead, it is shocked with an

" electric stick " Remember, difficult as this is to

read, this form of violent killing is necessary to

both tenderize the flesh and improve its aphrodisiacal

properties The more the dog suffers, the more

flavorful and beneficial the meat is thought to be,

the more adrenaline. The Korean consumer demands this

form of slaughter less the meats affect are nil.

 

The dog is then taken inside a building where it is

placed inside a vat of boiling water. Finally it is

removed and butchered according to the buyers

discretion.

 

There now is the tragic story of a dogs' plight in

Korea, but what about the cats?

 

The cat fares no better in South Korea. They are not

considered good pets and the few people that do

attempt to have a cat in their home find it difficult.

There is virtually no cat food or kitty litter to be

had. There are very few vets that treat cats. Cats are

thought to be a filthy, dangerous to a Koreans health,

and a threat to their well being.

 

Cats are best served by Koreans as an elixir usually

called Liquid Cat or " cat juice. "

 

To accommodate the customers, the dealer will place

cats in a large sack and in what seems to be the

tradition, beat them to death. This is done either

with a blunt object or just slamming the sack upon the

ground, preferably a concrete surface.

 

The cats, some still alive, are then placed in large

pots of boiling water, dates, ginger and chestnuts are

added and the final liquefied results are believed to

cure rheumatism and neuralgia.

 

Source: Animals' Voice,

Volume 7, Number 2

Laura Moretti

 

Source: Jon Bearscove

 

Source: Kyenan Kum

 

Source: anonymous Korean citizens

 

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I have in my possession an underground video taken I

in South Korea, as follows is a poem i wrote, it

concerns what i saw in the beginning of the video

 

 

!~!~!~!~!~!The Korean Leader and His White

Dog~!~!~!~!~!~!

 

THE KOREAN LEADER AND HIS WHITE DOG

- n. le`der-ONE WHO LEADS OR COMMANDS.

 

...............................................................................

 

................................................the

white dog.

 

 

...the white dog hanging,

 

 

 

 

 

...the

white dog hanging from a

tree.

 

...strangling.

 

 

....strangled by a man,

 

 

...strangled by a man he knew as his

LEADER.

...the

man,

 

 

...the man, the LEADER of

the dog,

 

...strangles

him slowly.

 

 

...he loosens his

hold of the rope,

 

...the rope that secures the

noose around the neck of

the white dog.

 

...the white dog,

 

 

...the white

dog hanging from the tree,

 

...gasps for air.

 

 

 

...the white dog hanging from the tree,

gasping for air, grabs for

a branch ! ...the white dog

fails.

 

 

.... the white dog is hanging from the tree.

 

 

 

....the LEADER of the dog secures the rope,

 

...the LEADER of the

dog secures the rope and

walks toward the white dog. ...the

white dog is hanging

from the tree.

 

...the white dog grabs again

for a branch!

 

...the leader of the

dog, the white dog hanging from the tree,

 

...picks up a brick

 

the

Leader of the white dog

picks up a brick and slams it into the white dogs`

head! ...the

white dog screams !

 

...pain, terror,

confusion, PAIN, TERROR,

CONFUSION !!

....these are the

reactions of the white dog,

 

...the white dog hanging from the

tree.

 

 

...the white dog hanging from the tree no longer

has a left eye!

...the white dog

hanging from the tree has a

fractured skull and missing teeth!

....the brick with its

newly acquired bloody eye,

 

...the brick watches.

 

 

 

...watches the white dog hanging from the tree.

 

 

 

 

...the leader

 

 

...the leader of the

dog tightens the noose,

 

 

....tightens the noose on the white dog with no left

eye, fractured skull and

missing ...teeth.

 

 

 

...the white dog hanging from the tree is

strangling,

 

 

...ears of the dog hear only rushing heartbeats.

 

...inside the

fractured skull of the white

dog hanging from the tree, pressure builds.

....the white dog

hanging from the tree needs air !

 

...the leader of the white dog loosens

the noose,

....loosens the noose that is around the neck of the

white dog.

 

 

...the white dog

hanging from the tree.

 

...the

white dog hanging from the tree, struggles, for a

branch, for his breath.

...the leader of the white dog,

 

 

 

...the leader repeatedly kicks and beats

the white dog,

...the white

dog hanging from the

tree

 

... the leader kicks the white

dog with no left eye,

fractured skull and missing teeth ...the

white dog feels

tendons snap, muscles tear and bones break.

 

...the brick

watches with it `s dried

eye,

 

... watches the white dog hanging

from the tree,

 

...the leader

of the dog again tightens the noose,

 

... the leader tightens the noose that is

around the neck of the

white dog.

 

...the white dog

 

 

...the

white dog???? THE WHITE DOG???????? WHITE!!

---WHITE!!--

THE DOG WAS WHITE...HANGING FROM THE TREE.

HE WAS A WHITE DOG HANGING FROM A TREE!!!

......................................................................

 

...The white dog has died

 

 

...The

leader feels much joy.

 

...Tomorrow when the

leader smiles you will see

the white dog

....You will see the

white dog, between his leaders ` teeth

 

 

THE LEADER

-n, le`der- one who leads or commands.

 

____________

 

 

Now what can you do?

 

First and most importantly, South Korea is scheduled

to host the World Cup in 2002. By visiting the

following website you will find information on how to

protest their right to host such an honorable event

 

http://www.koreananimals.org/campaign.htm

 

Second refuse to buy all products made in Korea. If

you are making a purchase in a store and notice the

item is made in Korea don't buy it. Make sure the

salesperson or cashier knows why you are refusing the

purchase. Take every chance you can get to inform

others of this situation. You have a great deal of

power within yourself. Each person that writes a

protest letter or speaks up is considered a

representative of 10,000 people that feel the same

way. So be heard

 

Empower yourself now.

 

Staff Editor and Contributor:Ljbeane1

 

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