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Orange County Executive Steven M. Neuhaus: Tell Sister City, Hwaseong, South Korea, That We’re Opposed to the Torture and Consumption of Dogs and Cats.

Hwaseong Mayor In-Seok Chae

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.

Hwaseong became Sister city with Orange County in 2002.

In Hwaseong, there are countless dog farms, slaughterhouses, 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.

Mr. Chae In-seok, the Mayor of Hwaseong, a city that he describes as South Korea’s “fastest growing” in recent years, signs off his webpage message by saying he wishes “peace and joy”. Mayor Chae also notes that the quality of the city “depends on the degree and satisfaction of the people who live there”, but it is difficult to imagine how these citizens can be at peace knowing that each year countless numbers of dogs and cats are inhumanely raised and brutally slaughtered to feed the greed of those involved in the dog and cat meat trades in the vicinity of his joyful city.

Mayor Chae also makes 100 pledges, amongst those is 5-6: ‘the creation of eco-farmland’. However, dog farms are insanitary, the dogs are fed on filthy slops, they are frequently pumped full of antibiotics and are slaughtered in illegal and disturbing ways. Mayor Chae, when will you begin acting on pledge 5-6 by ridding your city of the unacceptable, and all round harmful, dog and cat meat trades?

A Search Engine reveals the sickening scale of Hwaseong’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 431 Health Food Centers; and 200 restaurants in the vicinity of Hwaseong.

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 Hwaseong to supply these outlets.

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

Please watch the documentary on South Korea’s dog meat industry: https://youtu.be/cCdTceduKcY

Video: The Dog Meat Professionals: South Korea

https://koreandogs.org/meat-dogs-in-wire-cages-feed-on-rotten-food-waste-slops/

Please sign petition, call, write and email Orange County TODAY!

To make this easy we’ve included text for your call and emails below.

• No matter where you live, please SIGN OUR PETITION
• Call the County Executive Office!
  Phone: (845) 291-2700

  Suggested phone message

  Hello, I’m calling to speak to someone in the Mayor’s Office to ask for their help on an important issue regarding your sister city, Hwaseong in South Korea.

  If I could explain: dog-meat consumption is currently being practiced in that city, even though it is illegal under South Korean Law – but the laws are not enforced. The dog and cat meat trades involve extreme and widespread animal cruelty, and the animals suffer unimaginable pain and distress. They cannot speak for themselves which is why I am calling on their behalf. And, I believe that your city would wish to be made aware of this issue, as you would not want to be affiliated with a city where illegal and immoral torture is being carried out on any animal, and particularly not on ones that are loyal, trusting creatures, which look up to us humans as their guardians.

  These illegal trades are being allowed to continue by Korean authorities – even though there is growing opposition from pet owners across South Korea, and throughout the world.

  So, I am asking you to please speak with your counterparts in Hwaseong to urge them to enforce their own laws, not ignore them, and to show compassion to their companion animals, and also respect to their own citizens, by bringing these trades to an end.

  With the Winter Olympics coming up in 2018, this is the time to make change; this is the time to stop the illegal, inhumane and unnecessary cruelty. I know that South Korea has many beautiful, admirable, and noble practices and customs worth preserving, but this is not one of them.

  Thank you for your time and understanding.

• Email: (Use the below-suggested message or petition for email text)
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• Send a letter! (Use the below-suggested message or petition for letter text):Orange County
  Executive Office
  40 Matthews Street
  Goshen, NY 10924
  USA

  Orange County Legislature
  15 Matthews Street
  Goshen, NY 10924
  USA

  Send a copy of your letter to Hwaseong Mayor In-Seok Chae:
  Mayor In-Seok Chae
  Hwaseong City Hall
  159 Sicheong-ro, Namyang-eup, Hwaseong, Gyeonggi-do
  Postal Code 18274
  South Korea

  Address in Korean:
  채인석 화성시장님
  화성시청
  (우)18274 경기도 화성시 남양읍 시청로 159
  South Korea

• Send a message through Facebook page: Orange County
  Hwaseong

Suggested email/letter/Facebook message

Dear Executive Steven M. Neuhaus and the members of the County Legislature:

We ask you to please watch the videos of South Korea’s dog meat industry: https://youtu.be/cCdTceduKcY, https://koreandogs.org/horrible-reality-of-meat-dog-farms-you-did-not-know/

Do you think that Orange County should be a Sister city to any city that allows dogs and cats to be tortured and eaten? Please urge Hwaseong Mayor In-Seok Chae to close down all those illegal dog farms and slaughterhouses, markets, truckers, and restaurants that serve these animal products. An online petition calling for your support in ending the horrendous South Korean dog and cat meat cruelty is in progress: https://www.change.org/p/orange-county-executive-steven-m-neuhaus-tell-sister-city-hwaseong-korea-that-we-re-opposed-to-torture-consumption-of-dogs-cats
The favor of your reply is requested.
Thank you,

[Your Name & City/Country]

• Send a Twitter message!
  .@hwaseong_city .@ggholic .@OCGovNY Exe. Neuhaus, Plz Urge Sister City Hwaseong, Korea-Stop Torture/Eating Dogs https://goo.gl/5gwkP4



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