Please help Korean groups to stop dogs from being listed as livestock

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Dear all

 

Together with Korean groups, Coexistence of Animal Rights on Earth

(CARE) and Korea Association for Animal Protection (KAAP), we ask for

your help to stop the legalisation of dog eating in Korea.. The

suffering of dogs destined for consumption by humans in Korea has

been documented many times. They are crammed into tiny cages,

deprived of water and proper food, beaten and hanged – sometimes they

are even burnt alive.

 

On March 24th this year, the municipality of Seoul released the Dog

Meat Hygiene Management Policy, a document that lists dogs as

livestock. It plans to recommend amendments of the national laws on

Livestock Products Processing to formally include dogs as livestock.

Korean animal protection groups gathered in front of Seoul city hall

on March 25th and 26th to protest this move.

 

For years Korean groups have worked on public education campaigns to

promote the concept that dogs are not food. They are asking for

support from other communities, particularly Asian communities, with

the hope that countries that have already banned the consumption of

dog and cat meat (including Taiwan, Thailand and the Philippines) and

those where this is not a major issue (including Singapore, Japan and

India) could help to persuade the Korean government not to legalise

this animal abuse.

 

The Taiwanese animal protection group, EAST, was the first Asian

group to respond to their Korean colleagues' request by hosting a

joint press conference with CARE & KAAP in Taipei on 8th April 2008.

The Koreans need more groups like EAST and other individuals to

support this campaign.

 

Please write to the new President of Korea, the Mayor of Seoul and

the Korean embassy in your country to protest this senseless

legislation.

 

For more detailed information on this issue, download the sample

letters and how you can help, please visit: http://actasia.org/

dogsKorea.html.

 

1. Mayor of Seoul Mr. Oh Se-hoon

 

Email: ohsehoon

 

Address: Euljiro1, Jung-gu, Seoul, 100-744, Korea

 

Tel +82 2 735 6060

 

2. Korean President Mr. Lee Myung-bak

 

Email: webmaster

 

Address: 1 Cheongwadae-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul, Korea

 

Tel: +82 2 730 5800

 

If you would like to offer any other direct help on this issue,

please contact CARE and KAAP:

 

Ms. Park So-Yeon, President

Coexistence of Animal Rights on Earth (CARE)

Email: kyeowoolmom

Website: http://www.fromcare.org

 

Mr. Lee Won-bok, President

Korea Association for Animal Protection (KAAP)

Email: lwb22028

Website: www.kaap.or.kr

 

On behalf of these groups, we thank you for your help in this campaign.

 

Best regards

 

ACTAsia For Animals

www.actasia.org