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Maui County Mayor Alan Arakawa: Tell Sister City Goyang (Gyeonggi-do), South Korea, That We’re Opposed to the Torture and Consumption of Dogs and Cats.

If you want to help fight the grisly South Korean dog and cat meat trade and make a difference in South Korea, here are a few quick actions you can take that could save millions of dogs and cats each year.

Goyang Mayor Seong Choi

Maui County, Hawaii became Sister city to South Korea’s Goyang (Gyeonggi-do) in 2012.

Yet Goyang, South Korea is responsible for the ongoing horrendous torture and killing of dogs and cats. Goyang is one of the largest dog meat consumption areas as well as dog farm areas in South Korea. If you have ever wondered what hell would be like, just visit or watch the videos of dog farms and slaughterhouses scattered all throughout Goyang. There are countless dog farms from small to very large, markets, and restaurants where the dogs, who have been tortured their entire lives, end up being slaughtered in the most inhumane ways, such as by electrocution, hanging, or beating, and then thrown into boiling water – sometimes while they are still alive. In many places, dogs are being killed in full view of other terrified, caged dogs; and this takes place in public and in broad daylight. In addition, many abandoned and stolen former pets end up in this industry and are subject to the same cruelty.

A Search Engine reveals the sickening scale of Goyang’s dog meat demand.

Shown below are two search results on Naver (the most popular search engine in Korea) – the first one was for so-called “Health Food Centers” which commonly sell dog elixirs and cat elixirs (also known as dog soju and cat soju), and the second one was for “dog meat restaurants.”

The searches resulted in dozens of 275 Health Food Centers; and 212 restaurants in the vicinity of the city of Goyang alone.

Even if half of these ‘Health’ Food Centers and restaurants serve dog and cat ‘ingredients’ in one form or another, imagine how many dog/cat slaughterhouses must be present in the vicinity of Goyang to supply these outlets.

Please watch the video of a typical dog farm in Goyang https://youtu.be/EVVPruGyKj8.

Also please watch the undercover video from the documentary trailer by the Korea Observer: https://youtu.be/T6KKIZEjofs

There are laws in South Korea against selling dogs and cats for consumption, yet these laws are blatantly ignored.

Please sign petition, call and email Maui County Mayor Alan Arakawa TODAY!

• No matter where you live, please SIGN OUR PETITION
• Send an email to the Mayor Arakwa and the county council members. (Use the below-suggested message or petition for email text)[email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected];
• Call the Korean Embassy and Consulate General’s offices in your country!
• Call the Mayor’s Office!
  Phone: (808) 270-7855
  Fax: (808) 270-7870
• Send a Twitter message!
  .@goyangcity .@CountyofMaui .@mauicounty Mayor Arakawa, Plz urge Sister City, Goyang-We Oppose Torture &Killing Dogs https://goo.gl/dIzQGo
• Send a letter! (Use the below-suggested message or petition for letter text):Mayor Alan Arakawa
  200 S. High St.
  Kalana O Maui Bldg 9th Fl.
  Wailuku, HI 96793 USA

  Send a copy of your letter to the Goyang Mayor Seong Choi !
  Mayor Seong Choi
  Goyang City Hall
  10 Goyangsicheong-ro, Deogyang-du, Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do, Postal Code 10460
  South Korea

  Address in Korean:
  최성 고양시장님
  (우)10460 경기도 고양시 덕양구 고양시청로 10
  South Korea

No matter where you live, PLEASE SHARE these actions with your friends, especially those who live in Maui County!