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http://theseoultimes.com/ST/?url=/ST/db/read.php?idx=3165

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Animal rights advocate says

" Korea Should Stop Eating Man's Best Friends "

Abuse of Dogs Still Rampant in S. Korea, China

Dogs in a case are waiting to be sllaughtered at Moran

Market in Seongnam east of Seoul. Moran Market is the

largest dog meat market in South Korea.

 

Currently, many people in South Korea and China are

angry over a respective case of animal abuse.

 

The abuse of hundreds of dogs by its owner in Incheon

west of Seoul infuriated South Korean citizens. The

dogs have been left unattended in squalid conditions

out in the open for several months. Many of them

starved or froze to death as its owner left them out

in the freezing weather. The owner was seeking

compensations from Incheon City Administration.

 

South Korean citizens as well as many Chinese were

also in anger over a Chinese woman who killed a puppy,

a cat, and a rabbit by trampling them with her shoes.

The vivid photos of her inhumane behavior are now

widely circulating on the South Korean websites as

well.

 

Faced by the strong protest, she apologized to the

Chinese public, saying that she was suffering from

manic depression. But her excuse made Chinese even

angrier. The woman, named Wang Jue, is known to be a

nurse working at a local hospital in Heilungjang

(Black Dragon) Province.

 

Chinese nurse Wang Jue kills a puppy with her shoes.

 

Do people's reactions over these two cases mean that

overall conditions for dogs and other animal treatment

have been ameliorated a lot? The answer could be yes

and no.

 

But still, overseas foreigners or foreign visitors

keep complaining about the rampant abuse of animals,

particularly dogs in Korea and China.

 

The following letter is from a world's renowned animal

rights advocate. The letter is full of cases of animal

abuses in Korea in particular.

 

I am amazed and shocked that you do not use your power

to expose and condemn the disgusting cruelty to dogs

and cats in Korea. I am writing to all media worldwide

to join forces and protest to FIFA and The Olympic

Committee in Geneva that Korea and China should not be

allowed into interntional games until the cruelty in

both countires is eradicated. If tourism and trade to

both Korea and China were withdrawn by the West then

perhaps both countries would treat cats and dogs with

the basic decency they deserve. Perhaps you would take

the time to read the following accounts published on a

Briitsh website — thank you, Suzanne Thorpe, Lincoln.

 

If I told you In South Korea, it is common to eat

dogs. This is not done in a humane manner, but by

torturing them to death by hanging, strangulation, and

beatings with such objects as bricks, large rocks,

heavy rod-like objects and electrocution. They do this

for long periods of time in order to terrorize and

cause great suffering to the animal.

 

A Chinese man piles up dogs after the killing.

 

They die a very slow and painful death. This brutal

execution is done to dogs, because many South Koreans

believe the flesh from a dog who is tortured to death

has aphrodisiac qualities and tastes better. Some

South Koreans torture cats by hitting them on the head

repeatedly with hammers, by placing them in sacks

which are then pounded on the ground, or by other

methods that produce slow and painful death. Dead cats

are cooked along with ginger, dates and chestnuts to

make a brown paste or " Liquid Cat " which is foolishly

thought by many South Koreans to be a remedy for

rheumatism and joint problems, "

 

http://www.animal-lib.org.au/lists/korea/korea.shtml

 

The Treatment of Dogs and Cats in Korea

hanging dogShould the brutal treatment and death of a

dog or cat concern us more than if the same were done

to a cow, or a sheep, or a chicken. It shouldn't, but

animals that the " Western world " looks upon as

companion animals are treated very differently in

Korea.

 

Many Koreans still believe that if one eats dog meat

from dogs that have been tortured to death, it will

make them more sexually active. The marketing of dog

meat as a health food was initiated and perpetuated by

the dog meat dealers to keep their billion dollar

businesses going. The rationale behind savagely

beating a dog to death lies in the primitiveness that

when a dog is beaten they produce high levels of

adrenaline hence the selling of their meat as a kind

of " natural " viagra for impotence and vitality!

 

This adrenaline rush is achieved by hanging dogs from

ropes on trees and leaving them to slowly strangle to

death, and then while still alive, their fur is

blowtorched off.

 

 

A cruel scene of dog abuse

 

Cats do not hold any position of affection in Korean

society. They are not eaten as dogs are but many

attempts have been made to eradicate them, not by

humane methods, but rather by beating the animals to

death in sacks or, in some cases, boiling them alive

in large pressure cookers to supply the insatiable

demand for another " herbal " remedy – although clearly

animals do not fall into this category.

 

The Korean government does not enforce its animal

welfare laws so people make an assumption that farming

dogs, slaughtering them and selling their meat is

legal. It is not. The sale and cooking of dogs is

illegal under Korea's food and sanitation laws.

 

http://www.idausa.org/news/currentnews/

activists_stage_bark_in.html

 

South Korea's laws prohibiting the consumption of dogs

and cats have been routinely ignored and disregarded

by law enforcement. Korea's Ministry for the Office of

Government Policy Coordination announced in January

that it was to begin inspecting dog meat for

sanitation, thus giving dog meat its seal of approval.

The Government promised that it was backing away from

this deplorable plan in February after being inundated

with thousands of letters, phone calls, and e-mails

from concerned citizens and animal protectionists

around the world. However, the Government is once

again leaning toward supporting the Ministry's back

door efforts to legalize dog meat.

 

Before dogs are killed for meat, they are often strung

up by their legs and beaten. Dog butchers extol the

virtues of their product, linking the adrenaline rush

dogs experience as they are bludgeoned to death to

enhanced male virility. Cats fare no better—viewed as

pest animals, they are boiled alive so their " juices "

can be extracted for supposed health tonics which

butchers claim can be used to treat rheumatism.

 

" It's inconceivable that as the rest of the modern

world is strengthening animal protection laws, the

Korean Government is allowing 'man's best friends' to

be boiled alive, beaten, butchered, and eaten under

its knowing watch, " says IDA president and founder

Elliot M. Katz, DVM.

 

Dogs brutally and illegally butchered by a man with

knife

 

For more information on IDA and its Korean Animals

Campaign, please visit www.IDAUSA.org. For more

information on Animal Freedom Korea, please visit

www.animalkorea.org.

 

http://www.oozemagazine.co.uk/korea.htm

Scandal in South Korea

You may find this article extremely harrowing It

sounds mediaeval doesn't it, a country where dogs and

cats, loved as companion animals around the globe, are

served up as a 'gourmet' food. Yet this is the reality

today in South Korea.

 

Many Koreans claim that eating dogs is a long

tradition although others believe that eating dogs

only began as a result of the Korean war, when

starvation was rife. The popularity today has come

about because dog dealers and restaurants began to

invent stories about the health benefits to be gained

from eating dog meat.

 

In order to meet the demand for dog meat (estimated at

2-2.8 million dogs and cats per year), farms exist

throughout the country to breed these animals for

slaughter. Dog meat, at £15 Sterling per kilo, costs

more than beef and is eaten more than lamb.

 

Dogs can commonly be seen in Korean markets being

killed (hopefully) by hammer blows to the head before

being skinned. Sometimes the dog is electrified

instead, with electrodes fixed to the tongue. Yet

another favoured method is slow strangulation by

hanging. The flesh is then singed by a blowtorch to

improve its appearance. On some occasions, the animal

remains alive throughout, eventually dying from shock.

This is all performed in full view of other dogs

crammed in cages awaiting the same fate.

 

The Koreans actually believe that the adrenaline

released into the dogs' bloodstreams by their sheer

terror and agony will increase the sexual potency of

the consumer.

 

Shocking eye-witness testimony

 

Not surprisingly, photographs of this form of

" slaughter " are difficult to obtain. The following is

an account from an eye-witness, " The reason why dogs

are beaten for so long is that there is a belief that

the slower & more painful the death is, the more

potent the dog's meat will be. Killing the dog slowly

causes the dog's adrenaline to flow, and this flow of

adrenaline throughout the dog is believed to increase

the aphrodisiac power of the meat. While the dog is

slowly being killed, it is of course screaming in

pain, and trying to resist the grip of the man doing

the killing. One method is to tie the dog from his

hind legs upside down. (All other accounts say that

the dog is hung from the neck). The man or men than

beat the dog's body all over with clubs or bats.

Beating it this way is said to do two things. One is

to increase the flow of adrenalin and the other is to

tenderize the meat.

 

Dogs in squalid conditions in South Korea

 

" While the dog is being beaten, it gets to the point

where it urinates and defecates on itself, and the

urine & faeces typically flow down the dog's body,

getting in its eyes and causing more pain. Eventually,

during this intensive beating, blood flows out of the

dog's mouth and nose due to internal bleeding, and it

finally dies. This beating process has no set time.

.... It can be a few minutes or it can take an hour,

depending on the man doing the killing and how much he

is into the belief that beating it slowly is best for

a quality aphrodisiac. I hope this clarifies why the

dogs are beaten first. In a large facility, the dogs

may not be hung by their hind legs. Instead the man

enters the large dog cage, selects the dog, grabs it,

and while holding it by the neck, begins to beat it in

the head in order to crush the skull. Of course, there

are so many methods of beating the dogs because there

is no regulation on this. "

 

CATS

 

Although cats are eaten in South Korea, it is more

usual for them to be rendered into a " medicine " to

treat rheumatism and arthritis. Unlike dogs, cats are

not bred on specialist farms. This would not be cost

effective when there are always starving strays. These

are collected in sacks and, if lucky, are beaten to

death with either a stick or hammer blows to the head.

More commonly, they are boiled alive with herbs

(sometimes after having their limbs broken to reduce

their ability to struggle) until their flesh

liquifies. The resulting " liquid cat " (known as

" Goyangi soju " ) is then sold in small sachets. An

average size cat, when cooked with dates, herbs and

chestnuts, will produce 20-25 of these sachets.

 

Shocking Eye-witness Testimony

 

The following is an eye-witness account, reported to

the Korean Animal Protection Society (KAPS) by one of

its members, Miss Mun Juyoung.

 

" While passing by the Kyoung-il Health Food

Restaurant, Miss Mun looked in through the window and

saw a middle aged women walking slowly among the rows

of hissing and boiling cauldrons. In her arms she held

a cat, who seemed undisturbed by the water on the

floor or the stream so thick in the air. Stopping at

one of the hot kettles, the women sniffed once and

dropped the cat in to the boiling water. Hideously

scalded by the boiling water the cat screamed and

clawed its way out but, the blank-faced woman, pushed

it back in the water with a stick over and over again

until the cat finally lost consciousness. The woman

fished it out once more, the cat mewing and whimpering

in pain, whereupon the woman pushed it back in for the

final time. "

 

 

 

then, please do this:

spread this to everyone you know!

 

online petition

http://choimimi.com/zboarde/zboard.php?id=sign

 

and also you can send a postcard, you dont have to

write anything, they have provide you the text and the

picture, all you have to do is write your name and

your anddress, stick a stamp there and post it!!!!

 

http://www.koreananimals.org/postcard_a4.pdf

 

 

and spread the flyer!!!

 

http://www.koreananimals.org/Flier_UK.pdf

 

 

visit :

www.wspa.org.uk

http://www.dogs-need-love.com/

http://www.yamp.com/balidogs/index.htm

http://www.petitionthem.com

http://www.goveg.com/

www.rspca.org.uk

www.http://www.peta2.com

http://www.peta.com/