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Seoul, Jungnang Borough – Dozens of dogs stuffed in truck cages unable to move for days in scorching heat taken to slaughterhouse
Short Link: http://koreandogs.org/?p=5939 Translation of CARE’s Facebook Posting on 5/22/2013 트럭 철장 속, 구겨진 채로 여러 날 버티다 도살장에 끌려가는 수십마리의 개들 Dozens of dogs having to endure being stuffed tightly inside metal cages on truck for many days and taken to slaughterhouse 동물사랑실천협회로 들어 …
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Dogs fed dead pigs infected with bacteria and distributed nationwide as dog meat
Translation of Korean News: Asia News Agency http://www.anewsa.com/detail.php?number=486994&thread=09r03 See more photos here: http://www.jejusori.net/news/articleView.html?idxno=128975 Dogs fed dead pigs infected with bacteria and distributed nationwide as dog meat A group that used pigs died of diseases as feed for dogs and distributed these dogs as meat nationwide …
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Puppy Dragged Behind Motorcycle in Uiwang, S. Korea
[Update - 5/1/2013] KAWA (Korean Animal Welfare Association) persuaded the old man to hand over the ownership of this puppy who wasn’t even treated properly for his injuries and took him to the hospital for treatment. Click here to see the photos from when KAWA …
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Venerable Beopjeong Buddhist Priest’s Argument Against Dog Meat Consumption (Korean-English Translation) 법정스님의 개식용반대론
Translated by koreandogs.org and volunteers. Please share! 법정스님의 개식용반대론 Venerable Beopjeong Buddhist Priest’s Argument Against Dog Meat Consumption 한국은 오는 2002년에 일본과 함께 월드컵 축구 대회를 개최하게 되었다. Korea became a co-host of the World Cup soccer tournament with Japan in 2002. 개최의 기쁜 소식과 …
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Dongducheon (Yeoncheon, S. Korea) Animal Shelter’s Bizarre Behavior
Translation of CARE’posting: 동두천시, 연천군 유기동물보호소 엽기행각전말, 동두천사건, 여기까지 진행중입니다 Full Account of Dongducheon (Yeoncheon, S. Korea) Animal Shelter’s Bizarre Behavior. (Translated from CARE’s posting) Unification Animal Hospital contracted to operate animal shelter for the city of Dognducheon was recently terminated for illegal activities as …
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Send ugly Jindo dogs to dog meat restaurants?
Meaningless Jindo dog promotion project, only profiting pet dog industry This is a translation of Korean News: http://ojs7.ohmynews.com/NWS_Web/View/at_pg.aspx?CNTN_CD=A0001195061 Symbol of our nation, Jindo dogs. Although Jindo dogs have been maintaining its status as the national dog with government assistance, in reality driven by the trend …
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Citizen Suit to Save Our Earth and Life (In response to the live burial of animals during the Foot & Mouth Disease outbreak in 2010-11)
Source: Citizen Suit Against FMD Crisis 2010 by KARA Citizen Suit to Save Our Earth and Life November 2012 Green Party Korea, Korea Animal Rights Advocates (In the alphabetical order) 1. Background – Raising an objection to factory farming (formally referred to as Concentrated Animal …
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Meat Dog Farmers Association “Allow registration of meat dog breeding as livestock farming”
Translation of Korean news: http://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&oid=001&aid=0005833683&sid1=001 See more photos from the rally: http://blog.naver.com/1004animals/120169548177 As meat dog farmers hold a rally demanding legalization of dog breeding and government support, the controversy over the dog meat is expected once again. About 500 meat dog farmers held a rally …
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Demand government to support meat dog breeding?
Translation of Korean news: http://news.donga.com/3/all/20120920/49537131/1 Dog farmers to gather in Seoul for a rally on September 24…Demanding livestock industry registration and facility support. Government’s response “Cannot accept”. Dog farmers breeding dogs for the purpose of consumption will be holding a large-scale rally in front of …
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Controversy over the maintenance of dog meat vendors at Moran market in Seongnam-city (The largest dog meat market in the country). Seven interdepartmental joint enforcement….Vendors backlash ‘threat to their livelihoods’.
Translation of news :http://media.daum.net/politics/administration/newsview?newsid=20120822102611827 Vendors are up in arms as Seongnam-city in Gyeonggido-province launches a broad-scale maintenance of dog meat vendors at Moran Market. Since July 5, Seongnam-city began an investigation of dog slaughter and sales conditions at the Moran Market area (Joongwon-gu, Seongnam-dong) and …
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KARA released a research report for the dog meat industry fact finding and prohibition measures
KARA’s Report-Full Version in Korean KARA’s Report-Summary Version in Korean Here are some information from the report: Status of Dog Breeds Utilized in Dog Meat Industry Based on the S. Korea’s Ministry of Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries’ statistical yearbook, in 2011, 1.7 million dogs …
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Pet adoption center plans to open early next month in Seoul
Translation of News: http://news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2012/08/16/2012081600001.html?Dep0=twitter Pet adoption center plans to open early next month. Through a reorganization initiative, Seoul Metropolitan government is preparing to change the animal related words being used and to build an animal protection shelter. This follows their recent creation of Animal Welfare …
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