Call for Action! Contact the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon (A South Korean National)!
The United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, a South Korean
The United Nations Secretary General Ban(Family Name) Ki-Moon(Given Name) is a South Korean National. We have been trying to get him to take action to stop the torture and mass murder of millions of dogs in his country’s dog meat industry for many years but still have not heard from him. Please call, email and write to him today! He has the power to stop the South Korean Dog Meat Cruelty! You can use our sample letter or use your own words.
- Call the Secretary General’s office in UN Headquarter in New York and tell them that you want a response from the Secretary General regarding the torture and killing of dogs in his country’s dog meat industry!1-212-963-7160
1-212-963-7162
Fax 1-212-963-7055 - Send an email to the Secretary General Ban’s staff (Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary General): [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]
- Send a letter to his office:
Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon
United Nations Headquarter
405 East 42nd Street
New York, NY 10017 USA - Sign and share petition!
- Join our Facebook event and invite everyone!
http://www.un.org/sg/spokesperson/index.asp
Click HERE to see the form response the United Nations Secretary General’s Office is sending out to our protest letters!
Sample letter to the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon
To the honorable United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon,
Please watch this video: https://youtu.be/_ZVQjgGb4RQ
The $2 billion dollar-a-year South Korean dog and cat meat industry, which extinguishes the lives of approximately two and a half million dogs a year for meat or gaesoju, a dog wine or broth, and thousands of despised and doomed cats for so-called “health” tonics or goyangyeesoju, and soup, operates in a sordid and illicit world where farmers and butchers kill with frightening impunity in the most abominable fashion. Dogs are killed with high-voltage electrocution, which takes anywhere from thirty seconds to three minutes, hanged, and even beaten to death at the request of customers who believe the meat more tender and tastier the greater the suffering (one of the most pernicious of myths), and that the so-called medicinal properties are enhanced. They are most often killed within sight of their cage mates. They are then thrown into a tub of boiling water, often still alive, and then into a rotating drum for the removal of their fur, and finally blow torched. At Moran Market, South Korea’s largest open air-market for dog meat, dog carcasses are on display next to the cages of live dogs. Cats are often bludgeoned and thrown into boiling water while still alive. At the farms, dogs are fed germ-infested, rotting, and fermented human leftovers, a health risk to both the dogs and those who eat them. In South Korea, dogs and cats’ lives are short and ferociously heartless until they tremble no more at the hands of their slaughterers as cage mates look on. https://koreandogs.org/
According to the Korea Animal Rights Advocates (KARA)’s comprehensive study on S. Korean dog meat industry https://koreandogs.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/KARA-Dog-Meat-Report_English-1.pdf,
“Using electric rods did not instantly kill the dog. First contact to electric rod did paralyze the dog but dogs were still conscious. In most cases, two to three contacts with electric rod will finally make the dog motionless. Duration of electrocution differed by slaughter houses. First contact is within two seconds, and follow-on contact required longer contacts. At some slaughterhouses with poor electricity system, the dog did not lose consciousness after using electric shock. Rather it tried to bite off the electric rod. It is one cruel episode that proved electrocution does not instantly kill the animal. According to our research, electric shock is followed by plucking, where whole process took two to five minutes. Dogs can hardly be dead in such a short period of time. In such cases, dogs are paralyzed but still conscious to suffer from the pain of plucking and die.”
Here the plucking or removal of fur is done by throwing the dog often paralyzed and unable to move but still conscious into the boiling water and then into the rotating drum that removes the fur. This is a terrifying and excruciating experience beyond imagination.
Sometimes unconscious but still alive dogs are blow torched to remove fur.
You can see an evidence of this cruelty from this video of raid by a Korean TV broadcast company and an animal rights group in Korea called Coexistence of Animal Rights on Earth (CARE): http://youtu.be/ldblUoQ2tvo
Please also take a look at this video that shows the dogs being transported to Seongnam Moran market (the largest dog meat market in the country) during the pitch darkness of the night, taken one by one out of the cages where they were packed unable to move for many hours, electrocuted and thrown into boiling water. Some of these dogs thrown into the boiling water could be still alive and able to feel the excruciating pain and terror of being boiled alive. Click “CC” for English caption. http://youtu.be/vHB3uwB9kyA (At 6:17 this scene starts).
According to the CARE’s report from their year long undercover investigation last October (visiting total of 82 locations of dog meat farms, markets, slaughterhouses,..) of dog meat industry, FAQ #7, “Electric shock brings extreme pain, and dogs often remain conscious throughout repeated applications. It is known that in some cases, dogs stay perfectly conscious even when they are put in boiling water or hair removal machines.”
Cruelty happens at all stages at S. Korean dog meat industry. Here are few videos showing the cruelty during the transport and at the market:
http://youtu.be/uKCdAGfGOsQ
http://youtu.be/cJnp87OSn58
http://youtu.be/wuZTUuyB484
In addition to the unspeakable cruelty perpetrated dog meat trade is also a serious threat to human health. Dog farms are hotbed for infectious diseases. Since there is no disease control these dogs suffer from diseases from highly infectious and transmittable bacteria, virus, ectoparasites, endoparasites, and fungi. Out of 165 dogs bred at a dog farm in Seoul area, 83 dogs(50.3%) were infected with endoparasites and 23 dogs(20.2%) were infected with heart worm.
Puppies suffer from malnutrition because they are fed rotting food waste (infested with pests such as rats, cockroaches, flies..) after being weaned. In order to hide from the law and civil complaints, most dog farms are located in remote areas where sun is scarce causing vitamin D (necessary for bone growth) deficiency.
Locked in cages for months, dogs are bored and stressed from being packed with other dogs and constant stench. Stress hormone weakens their immune system and they become susceptible to hormonal diseases such as hyperadrenocorticism.
Antibiotics, antidiarrheal and steroid are used to control distemper, parvovirus, various respiratory and digestive diseases but abuse of drugs led to tolerance against antibiotics and relevant innate problems. In some cases, 10 times the normal doses were being administered by the farmers themselves without the supervision of veterinarian.
Large dose of heavy metal that accumulated in the organs and caused internal body malfunction is detected in dog meat. Heavy metal is assumed to have been accumulated from eating leftover food waste and low-end feed (remains from slaughter houses). Many serious and often life threatening diseases can be attributable to this unsanitary and inhumane dog meat industry and they include animal bites and scratches, Bubonic Plague, Camphylobacter, Cutaneous larval migrans, Giardiasis, Lyme Disease, Psittacosis, Rabies, Salmonellosis, Shigellosis, Visceral Larva Migrans, Anthrax, Bebesiosis, Brucellosis, Colibacilosis,… Read the extensive research report by KARA (Korea Animal Rights Advocates) https://koreandogs.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/KARA-Dog-Meat-Report_English-1.pdf.
S Korea’s Dangerous Health Food – Inconvenient Truth About Dog Meat 1 of 2 with English Caption: http://youtu.be/vHB3uwB9kyA
S Korea’s Dangerous Health Food – Inconvenient Truth About Dog Meat 2 of 2 with English Caption: http://youtu.be/foHCBNllT8w
See more undercover videos from S. Korean dog market, slaughterhouses here: http://dogisdog.org/bbs/board.php?bo_table=video
There is no appropriate animal-protection legislation to prevent the animal cruelty currently taking place in S. Korea. As someone who believes strongly that animals should not be treated in this way, I request that you investigate and address this issue immediately. Please sanction S. Korean government until they strengthen the Animal Protection Law to prevent animal cruelty and to introduce basic animal-protection regulations. It must also provide penalties for violations and ensure that mistreated animals can be legally seized from abusers and given immediate refuge. I request that you insist S. Korean Government to create an enforceable law to ban the torture, killing, sale, and consumption of dogs and cats. Please don’t let the S. Korean government get away with this outrageous cruelty to companion animals.
The favor of your reply is requested.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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smettete x favore, questi atti incivili ed inumani, sono animali di affezione, non sono carne da macello, il cane e’ il piu’ grande amico dell’uomo come potete fare questo [email protected]
Koreans are mentally sub-standard, filthy, disgusting, vile people with dead black hearts who don’t have a place in a civilized world!!! The barbaric cruelty in Korea is beyond belief and heartbreaking. Complete mental morons to believe in idiotic myths about torture and are people who lack normal human compassion. God knows the evil you do to His helpless, innocent animals and I pray that he intervenes soon. The world knows too about your sick, ugly society.
I understand and share your outrage, but this in inappropriate. I know some wonderful Korean people. Focus on the problem and save the insults.
My partner’s best friend is Korean and I’ve met some lovely Koreans but what Sherry compton has written is not about individuals but rather the society that accepts this as a whole and I agree with her putting this out there. If Korea can be shamed into stopping this by public opinion then why not. Whatever works. obviously nothing else is working. And I pray too. We all should be. I have of course taken action too, and emailed many officials and rang the Korean embassy here in Australia. But it seems that perhaps only shaming and creating a bad reputation for Korea may be the only the officials will intervene.
Agree.
Agree with Sherry.
Same.
They are primitives who bring down the rest of their nation.
For every dog that’s killed, one person should die of diseases brought on by the practice of eating cats and dogs. Infecting the dogs further might be an idea to dissuade people from eating them.
Stop this now please! This is so sick and cruel to do this to these poor animals! A civilized nation would not do this and treat animals in this way, plesae stop this now!!
STOP THIS SICK SHIT YOU COUNTRY IS BAD WE HATE YOU FOR WHAT YOU TURN YOUR BACK ON AND ARE WORKING HARD TO STOP AMERICANS FROM COMING TO YOUR HELL HOLE!! WE ARE LAUNCHING A MAJOR CAMPAIGN to all tourist companies about the DOG MEAT TRADE!!!
I wanted to share a reply by post I just received from United Nations on behalf of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon regarding a letter I sent him re: the dog and cat meat trade. The good news is it actually seems to be a personalized letter regarding that specific issue and not just another generic form letter.
Bad news; They say he is not in a position to take action alone. They say a lot more than that, but that is the gist of it.
They do go on to suggest, however, that we send letters to the;
Permanent Mission of the United States to the United Nations
140 East 45th Street
New York, NY
10017
USA
FAX: 212 415 4000
http://www.usunnewyork.usmission.gov
As well as;
The World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA)
http://www.worldanimalprotection.us.org/
They also suggested we contact our Member of Parliament, but as I live in the US, I am not sure what to do with that.
Anyway, I hope the above proves to be useful and effective.
Peace, Salaam, Shalom, Juli
ONE WONDERS HOW MANY PEOPLE, WHO EAT THE SICK DOGS, WILL BECOME ILL THEMSELVES!
I’ve received the same letter. So back to the drawing board. I’m not backing down until these sentient dogs r free and they close down all dog meat markets and make it illegal Permanently to murder, sell and/or eat of all cats and dogs.
He is probably one that eats them too since he hasn’t stopped this in years.
We will never give up.
THIS IS SICK AND NEEDS TO STOP..IF YOU THINK THAT HUMANS NEED TO EAT MEAT..WHY DONT THEY EAT THEIR OWN KIND..WE WASTE MILLIONS OF TAXPAYERS MONEY ON PEOPLE ON DEATH ROW..IF YOUR FOUND GUILTY..SEND THEM TO CHINA..KORA..ALL THE PLACES WHERE SO CALLED PEOPLE WANT TO EAT MEAT..WELL HERE YOU GO..ALL THE HUMAN FLESH YOU WANT..OMG YOU SAY..THAT IS UNETHICAL..THEY ARE GONNA DIE ANYWAY..SO WHAT..I MYSELF DONT LIKE THE TASTE OF MEAT AND WE COULD LIVE WITHOUT IT..BUT MAN IS THE ANIMAL HERE..TURN THE FATE AROUND AND THEN MAYBE THIS WILL END..
I agree with Kim & Sherry too! Although we can’t make generalizations, you do have to admit that for whatever reason many Asian countries have very little regard for animals, look at China and Vietnam. I believe if we are to be civilized and modern and trading with nations such as these, the UN MUST make animal welfare issues along with better human rights a requirement to be a signatory!!!
I know there was some debate on this and we have to push this! We MUST let ALL Ambassadors, Embassies, etc. know that we demand BETTER treatment and welfare of ALL animals! We ARE ALL creatures of the same GOD and as a Christian I have been commanded to be a GOOD steward. I will NOT be silent when I see cruelty and abuses such as these!
We ARE IN the 21st century! For nations to be able to trade with us, ask us for monetary or disaster support, food aide, etc. they MUST have better morals and values and respect for ALL life!!!
Since I’m here typing I want to ask everyone to go VEGAN!!!! There is NO difference between a dog, pig, cow, cat, parakeet or chicken!! In fact pigs are smarter than dogs, chickens have almost 30 different vocalizations and can count, the are clever at the “shell game” too! Cows are very social and dedicated mothers. They ALL want to live, love and have peace-so let that begin with US!!!! GO VEGAN!! We are learning more and more about just how smart animals are, even fish-it’s time to look at them ALL differently!!
STOP IT NOW.
HOW COULD ANY HUMAN DO THIS
PLEASE STOP ANIMAL ABUSE! IT IS THOROUGHLY BARBARIC! EVOLVE!
WE ARE ALL RESPONSIBLE. WHO DO THIS CRUELTY IS EVIL. WHO KNOWS ABOUT THIS CRUELTY AND DO NOTHING IS EVIL!!
I became aware of the illegal dog meat trade of your country some time ago. I have been a supporter to your law enforcement and was proud of them for the work they do to stop this cruelty, I am appalled that a government and especially a government who has a leader in the United Nation would not ban the Bok-Nal Dog soup Festival. Is this not illegal as well? The mistreatment and cruelty to any animal is unacceptable. To see vulnerable dogs caged and disregarded is a shameful thing. And yes, you should feel shame for not stopping this festival. I ask again, is illegal dog trade not illegal in your country. This contradiction boggles my mind. Please please do the right thing. Canada has supported your people, help your people gain entry to our country. I am a believer in one people, one planet. But good people would not allow this festival to happen, especially when this cruelty is illegal. Please take a stand and stop the Dog Soup festival. You are in a position to do so. Do not pass the responsibility onto other organizations. You are the government, you govern your country. You have the power. Please use it in a good way.
“The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated” – Gandhi
Thank you for your time and support on this matter.
Please stop the dogs of South Korea fr getting killed.
BOYCOTTING ALL THINGS KOREAN-CARS INCLUDED-UNTIL THIS STOPS. PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD, PEOPLE!
Everyone should stop buying anything made in Korea!!!!
This atrocity MUST stop!!!! Mr. Ban Ki Moon is so disappointing
in this matter. He definitely would have the power to stop it if
he wanted to!!!
This is such a non essential need of people. Torture and greed is a negative tone for a culture that promotes peace and love but their actions tell of their lives and what they hold dear. Pain and terror.
I agree. Not essential & cruel.
GOD ABOVE KNOWS WHY YOU ALLOW SUCH EVIL CRUEL UNIMAGINABLE TORTURE ABUSE HORROR AND THEN DEATH TO THE POOR DOGS (CATS) IN YOUR COUNTRY ! THE SUFFERING TO US CIVILZED RESPECTFUL PEOPLE IS BEYOND THINKING. DOGS ARE MANS BEST FRIEND IN THE WEST, EVEN IF YOU DO NOT SEE THEM AS THIS THERE IS NO REASON TO TREAT THE DOGS IN SUCH A DISGRACEFUL MANOR !! THEY FEEL PAIN AND FEAR THE SAME AS YOU DO , SO WHY IS THIS NOT STOPPED ? HOW CAN YOU NOT CARE ABOUT THIS TERRIBLE TERRIBLE DISTURBING MURDER OF GODS CREATURES ? PLEASE MAKE LAWS TO STOP THIS CRUELTY AND RESPECT THE ANIMALS THAT HAVE A RIGHT TO LIVE THEIR LIVES !
Please help us to stop the horrible way to treat our companions friends , our family members animals deserve to be respected
SADLY BAN KI MOON IS QUITE A WEAK LEADER, WITH VIRTUALLY NO BACKBONE, SO TO SPEAK. MY BROTHER IN LAW KNOWS HIM, SINCE HE IS THE GREEK CYPRIOT AMBASSADOR IN MOSCOW. WE NEED TO CHANGE TACK IN ORDER TO HELP THESE LITTLE LOVES. THOUGH GOODNESS KNOWS HOW.
The dog meat trade is both cruel and a risk to human health. It should be banned!
I dont bay samsung, ect
Stop!
Unacceptable!
To the honorable United Nations Secretary General Ki-Moon Ban, UN Food and Agricultural Organization, World Health Organization, Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization, World Tourism Organization & World Trade Organization of the United Nations (FAO, WHO, UNESCO, UNWTO & WTO of UN),
Please watch this video: http://youtu.be/3uR8R8Mu70Q
The $2 billion dollar-a-year South Korean dog and cat meat industry, which extinguishes the lives of approximately two and a half million dogs a year for meat or gaesoju, a dog wine or broth, and thousands of despised and doomed cats for so-called “health” tonics or goyangyeesoju, and soup, operates in a sordid and illicit world where farmers and butchers kill with frightening impunity in the most abominable fashion. Dogs are killed with high-voltage electrocution, which takes anywhere from thirty seconds to three minutes, hanged, and even beaten to death at the request of customers who believe the meat more tender and tastier the greater the suffering (one of the most pernicious of myths), and that the so-called medicinal properties are enhanced. They are most often killed within sight of their cage mates. They are then thrown into a tub of boiling water, often still alive, and then into a rotating drum for the removal of their fur, and finally blow torched. At Moran Market, South Korea’s largest open air-market for dog meat, dog carcasses are on display next to the cages of live dogs. Cats are often bludgeoned and thrown into boiling water while still alive. At the farms, dogs are fed germ-infested, rotting, and fermented human leftovers, a health risk to both the dogs and those who eat them. In South Korea, dogs and cats’ lives are short and ferociously heartless until they tremble no more at the hands of their slaughterers as cage mates look on. http://koreandogs.org/
According to the Korea Animal Rights Advocates (KARA)’s comprehensive study on S. Korean dog meat industry http://koreandogs.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/KARA-Dog-Meat-Report_English-1.pdf,
“Using electric rods did not instantly kill the dog. First contact to electric rod did paralyze the dog but dogs were still conscious. In most cases, two to three contacts with electric rod will finally make the dog motionless. Duration of electrocution differed by slaughter houses. First contact is within two seconds, and follow-on contact required longer contacts. At some slaughterhouses with poor electricity system, the dog did not lose consciousness after using electric shock. Rather it tried to bite off the electric rod. It is one cruel episode that proved electrocution does not instantly kill the animal. According to our research, electric shock is followed by plucking, where whole process took two to five minutes. Dogs can hardly be dead in such a short period of time. In such cases, dogs are paralyzed but still conscious to suffer from the pain of plucking and die.”
Here the plucking or removal of fur is done by throwing the dog often paralyzed and unable to move but still conscious into the boiling water and then into the rotating drum that removes the fur. This is a terrifying and excruciating experience beyond imagination.
Sometimes unconscious but still alive dogs are blow torched to remove fur.
You can see an evidence of this cruelty from this video of raid by a Korean TV broadcast company and an animal rights group in Korea called Coexistence of Animal Rights on Earth (CARE): http://youtu.be/ldblUoQ2tvo
Please also take a look at this video that shows the dogs being transported to Seongnam Moran market (the largest dog meat market in the country) during the pitch darkness of the night, taken one by one out of the cages where they were packed unable to move for many hours, electrocuted and thrown into boiling water. Some of these dogs thrown into the boiling water could be still alive and able to feel the excruciating pain and terror of being boiled alive. Click “CC” for English caption. http://youtu.be/vHB3uwB9kyA (At 6:17 this scene starts).
According to the CARE’s report from their year long undercover investigation last October (visiting total of 82 locations of dog meat farms, markets, slaughterhouses,..) of dog meat industry, FAQ #7,
“Electric shock brings extreme pain, and dogs often remain conscious throughout repeated applications. It is known that in some cases, dogs stay perfectly conscious even when they are put in boiling water or hair removal machines.”
Cruelty happens at all stages at S. Korean dog meat industry. Here are few videos showing the cruelty during the transport and at the market:
http://youtu.be/uKCdAGfGOsQ
http://youtu.be/cJnp87OSn58
http://youtu.be/wuZTUuyB484
In addition to the unspeakable cruelty perpetrated dog meat trade is also a serious threat to human health. Dog farms are hotbed for infectious diseases. Since there is no disease control these dogs suffer from diseases from highly infectious and transmittable bacteria, virus, ectoparasites, endoparasites, and fungi. Out of 165 dogs bred at a dog farm in Seoul area, 83 dogs(50.3%) were infected with endoparasites and 23 dogs(20.2%) were infected with heart worm.
Puppies suffer from malnutrition because they are fed rotting food waste (infested with pests such as rats, cockroaches, flies..) after being weaned. In order to hide from the law and civil complaints, most dog farms are located in remote areas where sun is scarce causing vitamin D (necessary for bone growth) deficiency.
Locked in cages for months, dogs are bored and stressed from being packed with other dogs and constant stench. Stress hormone weakens their immune system and they become susceptible to hormonal diseases such as hyperadrenocorticism.
Antibiotics, antidiarrheal and steroid are used to control measles, parvovirus, various respiratory and digestive diseases but abuse of drugs led to tolerance against antibiotics and relevant innate problems. In some cases, 10 times the normal doses were being administered by the farmers themselves without the supervision of veterinarian.
Large dose of heavy metal that accumulated in the organs and caused internal body malfunction is detected in dog meat. Heavy metal is assumed to have been accumulated from eating leftover food waste and low-end feed (remains from slaughter houses). Many serious and often life threatening diseases can be attributable to this unsanitary and inhumane dog meat industry and they include animal bites and scratches, Bubonic Plague, Camphylobacter, Cutaneous larval migrans, Giardiasis, Lyme Disease, Psittacosis, Rabies, Salmonellosis, Shigellosis, Visceral Larva Migrans, Anthrax, Bebesiosis, Brucellosis, Colibacilosis,… Read the extensive research report by KARA (Korea Animal Rights Advocates) http://koreandogs.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/KARA-Dog-Meat-Report_English-1.pdf.
S Korea’s Dangerous Health Food – Inconvenient Truth About Dog Meat 1 of 2 with English Caption: http://youtu.be/vHB3uwB9kyA
S Korea’s Dangerous Health Food – Inconvenient Truth About Dog Meat 2 of 2 with English Caption: http://youtu.be/foHCBNllT8w
See more undercover videos from S. Korean dog market, slaughterhouses here: http://dogisdog.org/bbs/board.php?bo_table=video
There is no appropriate animal-protection legislation to prevent the animal cruelty currently taking place in S. Korea. As someone who believes strongly that animals should not be treated in this way, I request that UN organizations investigate and address this issue immediately. Please sanction S. Korean government until they strengthen the Animal Protection Law to prevent animal cruelty and to introduce basic animal-protection regulations. It must also provide penalties for violations and ensure that mistreated animals can be legally seized from abusers and given immediate refuge. I request that UN organizations insist S. Korean Government to create an enforceable law to ban the torture, killing, sale, and consumption of dogs and cats. Please don’t let the S. Korean government get away with this outrageous cruelty to companion animals.
The favor of your reply is requested.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Marisa Salgado
Really…..????? All I can say to u is Karma! Unbelievable.
If South Korea wants to join the 21st Century, it should stop the dog & and cat meat trade. This is a blood red stain on their country, it is cruelty at it’s worst & unhealthy for those who consume the meat. The rest of the world is watching, DO THEY CARE???
Please stop this horrific cruelty to God’s gentle creatures!!!!!!how can any country ignore this brutality. This must stop now!!!!!!!!
Please stop using dogs as meat in south Korea, the phlippines and china.
Maire Roche
Vet Nurse Assistant
Dogs are sensitive and feel. Please end their suffering by changing laws thank you
Please stop this cruel, barbaric practice. The civilized world is horrified. Dogs are sentient, intelligent beings that feel pain.
After learning about this I now think of South Korea as no better than any other country on earth.
I am now ashamed that America fought for South Korea.
Please STOP this hideousness!!!
This is the most disgusting and cruel practice I have EVER heard of, the Koreans have NO compassion towards anything
Please help to stop this suffering.
Please end this sick terror. Thank you.
Stop this horrific murder of innocent dogs and cats
A nation is reflected by the way they treat animals. Please, stop the killing and eating.
For the overall decency and respect of mankind, just put an end to this madness.
Stoppt den Wahnsinn!!
Please end the horrific dog meat trade.
THERE IS NO NEED TO BE CRUEL AND SHOW YOUR IGNORANCE TO EVERYBODY IN THIS TERRIBLE WAY! Human ignorance and cruelty makes this world into a living HELL. When people die “they go to hell”. When animals are born, they come right into the hell some people have created for them. And who deserves hell more?? Not an innocent dog. One can only dream that reincarnation exists, so that all cruel people treating dogs like they were not living beings, reincarnate into a dog in the “meat trade” and they slaughter and eat their own grandfathers who taught them to do it in the first place. That would be a what goes around comes around.
Please stop it
Please, don’t be indifferent! You can do more than you think!
Please don’t be so cruel, it is heartbreaking and disgusting what you are doing to these beautiful animals. How dare you take it upon yourself to be so barbaric
please help put a stop to this!
Stop this disgusting, hideous practice
Stop t6he terrible and inhumane torture of cats and dogs. The eating of these animals are barbaric
What disgusting evil people those Koreans and Chinese are,
Eating animals is one thing but torturing them first, its so plain evil,
and those who could prevent it yet do nothing are as much to blame as the abusers.
That Ki-moon ban is no different to all those Chinky types , no humanity and no concern for the welfare of animals . I cant imagine him do anything to stop the cruelty. He’s a sub human savage like all his kind.
To The UN General Secretary. Dear Sir, I feel I do not trust you even. At this position you should hear our voices to stop your peoples cruelty. Are you deaf ?
If you are deaf for the destiny of the animals, what about us, the people ? Don’t you care?
Moreover, Dear General Secretary of the UN, I THINK YOU DO NOT DESERVE THIS POST.
Cruels !
PLEASE STOP UNACCEPTABLE CRUELS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Vous les coréens ainsi que tous les asiatiques n avez aucun amour ni même respecter pour les animaux. Vous faites preuve d une cruauté abominable et jamais je n irai visiter vos contrées de peur de manger du chien ou du chat. Vous êtes immondes et sans pitié. Vous ignorez que les animaux souffrent ? Vous êtes abjects, un peuple barbare et cruel, sans pitié.
Vous le paierez un jour en enfer, c est l endroit qui vous convient le mieux. Je vois hais.
Dear Mr Ban,
There is no appropriate animal-protection legislation to prevent the animal cruelty currently taking place in S. Korea. As someone who believes strongly that animals should not be treated in this way, I request that UN organizations investigate and address this issue immediately. Please sanction S. Korean government until they strengthen the Animal Protection Law to prevent animal cruelty and to introduce basic animal-protection regulations. It must also provide penalties for violations and ensure that mistreated animals can be legally seized from abusers and given immediate refuge. I request that UN organizations insist S. Korean Government to create an enforceable law to ban the torture, killing, sale, and consumption of dogs and cats. Please don’t let the S. Korean government get away with this outrageous cruelty to companion animals.
The favor of your reply is requested.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Humans who treat other living creatures with cruelty have lost their humanity.
S top this horrible torture
Por favor tenha piedade acabe com esse sofrimento desnecessário.
Koreans and others in places like China, Vietnam and Japan who are cruel to dogs should re-discover their own goodness and put an end to such evil.
Also, Westerners who are concerned about dogs should re-discover their own goodness and stop eating cows, chickens, pigs, and seafood.
The first step to a better world starts with YOU.
This inhumane cruelty has got to stop. Please consider the lives of the innocent, unprotected souls you are killing!
I have now prepared a letter according to your saple above and will send it tomorrow per registered mail to the UN Secretary General as requested. Hope many of us will do the same – the more voices will be heard, the more action will be taken. Thank you, people, for all you do, you are real heros! Uliana, Austria
Thank you so much, Uliana!!! I hope more people will take the action to help these poor dogs like you are.
,outrages pure animals u ppl r ,, STOP PLEASE
Shame on your country can allow such barbaric actions towards human’s friends! BAN the dog farms business and dogs / cats meats trade. STOP this cruelty and horrendous act to save animals and save your stupid people!
God teach us to be compassionate in every way..we are the steward of this loving animals, they are our protector and a loyal follower…they love us more than their selves..pls help us stop this bad works of this people..I’m from the Philippines I see hundreds of neglected and abuse dog and cats pls do something…The Lord will bless us more by taking care of his creatures. Please Helpf those voiceless animals from Evil people punished them!
To the honorable United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon,
Please watch this video: http://youtu.be/3uR8R8Mu70Q
The $2 billion dollar-a-year South Korean dog and cat meat industry, which extinguishes the lives of approximately two and a half million dogs a year for meat or gaesoju, a dog wine or broth, and thousands of despised and doomed cats for so-called “health” tonics or goyangyeesoju, and soup, operates in a sordid and illicit world where farmers and butchers kill with frightening impunity in the most abominable fashion. Dogs are killed with high-voltage electrocution, which takes anywhere from thirty seconds to three minutes, hanged, and even beaten to death at the request of customers who believe the meat more tender and tastier the greater the suffering (one of the most pernicious of myths), and that the so-called medicinal properties are enhanced. They are most often killed within sight of their cage mates. They are then thrown into a tub of boiling water, often still alive, and then into a rotating drum for the removal of their fur, and finally blow torched. At Moran Market, South Korea’s largest open air-market for dog meat, dog carcasses are on display next to the cages of live dogs. Cats are often bludgeoned and thrown into boiling water while still alive. At the farms, dogs are fed germ-infested, rotting, and fermented human leftovers, a health risk to both the dogs and those who eat them. In South Korea, dogs and cats’ lives are short and ferociously heartless until they tremble no more at the hands of their slaughterers as cage mates look on. http://koreandogs.org/
According to the Korea Animal Rights Advocates (KARA)’s comprehensive study on S. Korean dog meat industry http://koreandogs.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/KARA-Dog-Meat-Report_English-1.pdf,
“Using electric rods did not instantly kill the dog. First contact to electric rod did paralyze the dog but dogs were still conscious. In most cases, two to three contacts with electric rod will finally make the dog motionless. Duration of electrocution differed by slaughter houses. First contact is within two seconds, and follow-on contact required longer contacts. At some slaughterhouses with poor electricity system, the dog did not lose consciousness after using electric shock. Rather it tried to bite off the electric rod. It is one cruel episode that proved electrocution does not instantly kill the animal. According to our research, electric shock is followed by plucking, where whole process took two to five minutes. Dogs can hardly be dead in such a short period of time. In such cases, dogs are paralyzed but still conscious to suffer from the pain of plucking and die.”
Here the plucking or removal of fur is done by throwing the dog often paralyzed and unable to move but still conscious into the boiling water and then into the rotating drum that removes the fur. This is a terrifying and excruciating experience beyond imagination.
Sometimes unconscious but still alive dogs are blow torched to remove fur.
You can see an evidence of this cruelty from this video of raid by a Korean TV broadcast company and an animal rights group in Korea called Coexistence of Animal Rights on Earth (CARE): http://youtu.be/ldblUoQ2tvo
Please also take a look at this video that shows the dogs being transported to Seongnam Moran market (the largest dog meat market in the country) during the pitch darkness of the night, taken one by one out of the cages where they were packed unable to move for many hours, electrocuted and thrown into boiling water. Some of these dogs thrown into the boiling water could be still alive and able to feel the excruciating pain and terror of being boiled alive. Click “CC” for English caption. http://youtu.be/vHB3uwB9kyA (At 6:17 this scene starts).
According to the CARE’s report from their year long undercover investigation last October (visiting total of 82 locations of dog meat farms, markets, slaughterhouses,..) of dog meat industry, FAQ #7, “Electric shock brings extreme pain, and dogs often remain conscious throughout repeated applications. It is known that in some cases, dogs stay perfectly conscious even when they are put in boiling water or hair removal machines.”
Cruelty happens at all stages at S. Korean dog meat industry. Here are few videos showing the cruelty during the transport and at the market:
http://youtu.be/uKCdAGfGOsQ
http://youtu.be/cJnp87OSn58
http://youtu.be/wuZTUuyB484
In addition to the unspeakable cruelty perpetrated dog meat trade is also a serious threat to human health. Dog farms are hotbed for infectious diseases. Since there is no disease control these dogs suffer from diseases from highly infectious and transmittable bacteria, virus, ectoparasites, endoparasites, and fungi. Out of 165 dogs bred at a dog farm in Seoul area, 83 dogs(50.3%) were infected with endoparasites and 23 dogs(20.2%) were infected with heart worm.
Puppies suffer from malnutrition because they are fed rotting food waste (infested with pests such as rats, cockroaches, flies..) after being weaned. In order to hide from the law and civil complaints, most dog farms are located in remote areas where sun is scarce causing vitamin D (necessary for bone growth) deficiency.
Locked in cages for months, dogs are bored and stressed from being packed with other dogs and constant stench. Stress hormone weakens their immune system and they become susceptible to hormonal diseases such as hyperadrenocorticism.
Antibiotics, antidiarrheal and steroid are used to control measles, parvovirus, various respiratory and digestive diseases but abuse of drugs led to tolerance against antibiotics and relevant innate problems. In some cases, 10 times the normal doses were being administered by the farmers themselves without the supervision of veterinarian.
Large dose of heavy metal that accumulated in the organs and caused internal body malfunction is detected in dog meat. Heavy metal is assumed to have been accumulated from eating leftover food waste and low-end feed (remains from slaughter houses). Many serious and often life threatening diseases can be attributable to this unsanitary and inhumane dog meat industry and they include animal bites and scratches, Bubonic Plague, Camphylobacter, Cutaneous larval migrans, Giardiasis, Lyme Disease, Psittacosis, Rabies, Salmonellosis, Shigellosis, Visceral Larva Migrans, Anthrax, Bebesiosis, Brucellosis, Colibacilosis,… Read the extensive research report by KARA (Korea Animal Rights Advocates) http://koreandogs.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/KARA-Dog-Meat-Report_English-1.pdf.
S Korea’s Dangerous Health Food – Inconvenient Truth About Dog Meat 1 of 2 with English Caption: http://youtu.be/vHB3uwB9kyA
S Korea’s Dangerous Health Food – Inconvenient Truth About Dog Meat 2 of 2 with English Caption: http://youtu.be/foHCBNllT8w
See more undercover videos from S. Korean dog market, slaughterhouses here: http://dogisdog.org/bbs/board.php?bo_table=video
There is no appropriate animal-protection legislation to prevent the animal cruelty currently taking place in S. Korea. As someone who believes strongly that animals should not be treated in this way, I request that you investigate and address this issue immediately. Please sanction S. Korean government until they strengthen the Animal Protection Law to prevent animal cruelty and to introduce basic animal-protection regulations. It must also provide penalties for violations and ensure that mistreated animals can be legally seized from abusers and given immediate refuge. I request that you insist S. Korean Government to create an enforceable law to ban the torture, killing, sale, and consumption of dogs and cats. Please don’t let the S. Korean government get away with this outrageous cruelty to companion animals.
The favor of your reply is requested.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Your Name & Address
Terri Fylling
Norway
Let’s not stop until South Korean officials heard us. God is with us.
Stop this unacceptable cruels!!!
Please stop this killing this innocent animals!!!!
This is really outragious that the korean people torture and kill our dearest friends and compagnions just for consuption!!!!!!! Do we not already have enought to eat on oiur plates? Do you (the korean nation!) really need to also eat our dearest friends??????? I am so furious about this awful and horrific tortures of our long year friends!!!!! Please I am asking you seriously to stop this madness right now!!!!! Thank you.
Christine Thurner from Belgium
I meant of course the word consumption instead of consuption , and the word our instead of oiur, Sorry for my 2 spelling fouts!
Christine Thurner
Bitte ändern sie ihre Gesetze. Auch Tiere haben rechte! !!!!
Plz stop dog meats and cruelty
please do something to stop this terrible cruelty
These cruel and evil murderers don’t deserve to breathe the same air as these beautiful animals. What a nasty ignorant race you are.
STOP IT.
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Please stop to toturing these innocent animals! This must stop today!! We need laws to protect animals!
South Korea, do the right thing. Stop murdering and torturing Humanity’s Best Friend. Dog meat is for monsters, not for people.
STOP..
This is the work of barbarians, a sub human culture. BOYCOTT SOUTH KOREA
Szégyen, hogy hagyják ezt! Kérem mindenki tegyen valamit, ami tőle telik!
I think I have emailed and written everyone I can, has anyone received any response yet?
Peace, Juli
“If you have men who will exclude any of God’s creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.”
~St. Francis of Assisi
“All beings tremble before violence. All fear death. All love life.”
~Buddha
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”
~Mahatma Gandhi
Dear Mr. Ban Ki Moon,
Please use your influence to end this misery of innocent animals in your country. It is absolutely horrendous!
God bless you,
Majella Furlong
Please help, be the HERO of all dogs and people who fight this evil deeds. If we stand together we can win this horror, save a life that money can’t buy!!!!!!!! PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!
Мрази а не люди!Надеюсь вся южная корея сдохнет от какой ни будь чумы!
Please stop this barbaric practice of using dogs and cats as a food source ,,they are man’s best friend,,don’t hide behind the ludicrous notion of “tradition”,it’s cruel and sick,,stop it now…..boycott everything Korean!
STOP SADISTIC BARBARISM AGAINST EVERY LIVING CREATURE AT THE MOMENT
DO YOU HAVE AN INTELLECT AND COMPASSION, PERSONS ACCOUNTABLE?
THEN YOU HAVE TO ACT RESPONSIBLE NOW – TO DEMAND ALL INITIATORS ACTING CRIMINAL IRRESPONSIBLY TO PAY REDEMPTION TO FUTURE GENERATIONS!
ONE PIECE OF CRAP HAVEN´T ONE OF THE ABOVE. CRAP IS TO DISPOSE ONLY.
when are you going to stop this vile, barbaric trade? . dogs & cats are NOT FOOD they are mans best friend and do so much for human kind.
Punish the evil, lowlife that inflict horrendous suffering and misery on these beautiful intelligent creatures. These people do not deserve to live
Le chien est l’animal le plus proche de l’homme, il est un compagnon fidèle. Ces images sont un cauchemar, cela doit cesser. Halte à la barbarie.
The reason this horror exists is because they are a Godless nation…..they are pagans and are evil to the core…..the small percentage of those Koreans that fight the good fight to right the wrongs in their country for the hundreds of thousands of animal victims are truly saints and have risen above their primitive and barbaric culture. There are many nations with evil people who exploit, torture and kill animals for reasons of sport, tradition and farming. Any form of torture and killing against God’s creatures is an abomination in the eyes of God and most likely will not be punished on Earth justly but only by the hands of the almighty at Judgment Day……I pray for the poor animal souls that you torture and kill and look forward to a swift and just punishment on your people for the sins they commit in this life……the afterlife for these individuals that commit such unspeakable acts holds an eternity of horror for their blackened souls….if souls exist at all in these people…..May all who do harm to God’s creatures get a just punishment at the end of days…….
YOU ARE AN BABARIC EVIL NATION! THE HOLE WORLD NOW, AND THERE IS A PLEACE FOR YOU ,AND YOU WILL BURN TOO … BECAUSE THERE IS KARMA !!! I WIL BOYCOT YOUR SICK NATION, WORLDWIDE!!!!
A nation is judged on their treatment of lesser creatures – the judgement on Korea is now occurring and we are horrified.
YOU ARE AN BABARIC EVIL NATION! THE HOLE WORLD NOW, AND THERE IS A PLEACE FOR YOU ,AND YOU WILL BURN TOO … BECAUSE THERE IS KARMA !!! I WIL BOYCOT YOUR SICK NATION, WORLDWIDE!!!!
Your sicko evil citizens who boil cats and dogs alive and skinned their fur alive marked your country is one of a sick nation in this world, shame on Korea, a powerful economic country with prides of well education, respectful citizens, all of these prides has been traded by social injustice humanity towards animal rights, then look into this dogs cats meat trade consumption asked yourself a question is this worth to trade?
Bann dogs cats meat trade, ban eating habit of eating your pets, they are members of families, they feel pains, fear, emotional and physical sufferings the same like human, stop ignorance as if nothing happened, stop acting inhumanely, stop your barbaric cultural of eating habits by laws enforcement now, immediately, that is the only ways out, people will never volunteering stop eating dogs and cats with an extreme cruelty done to these helpless innocent victims, unless it done by laws enforcements. Stop being ignorant to this humanity issue, otherwise, may God bless your whole nation in hell, Sir. Public outrage.
These sort of countries are rather cruel and very barbaric in their treatment of animals, they do not seem to understand that animals are creatures that feel pain ,as we do, are terrified as we would be, they deserve kindness and respect as we do, also their treatment of these animals do not earn their country any respect from animal loving countries, so please understand the fury this causes.
I’ve done all the above including Juli’s suggested email contacts below:
(I wanted to share a reply by post I just received from United Nations on behalf of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon regarding a letter I sent him re: the dog and cat meat trade. The good news is it actually seems to be a personalized letter regarding that specific issue and not just another generic form letter.
Bad news; They say he is not in a position to take action alone. They say a lot more than that, but that is the gist of it.
They do go on to suggest, however, that we send letters to the;
Permanent Mission of the United States to the United Nations
140 East 45th Street
New York, NY
10017
USA
FAX: 212 415 4000
http://www.usunnewyork.usmission.gov
As well as;
The World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA)
http://www.worldanimalprotection.us.org/
They also suggested we contact our Member of Parliament, but as I live in the US, I am not sure what to do with that.
Anyway, I hope the above proves to be useful and effective.
Peace, Salaam, Shalom, Juli)
Thank You,
Liz
I feel so ashamed for your society, that your morals and standards of decency are so low. Ban this animal trade, hold your head high instead of the world looking down on you in shame.
There are many kind of foods on earth, don’t eat our best friends. Please stop it.
PLEASE STOP the inhumane torture and killing of our best friends on earth! It’s about time South Korea showed the world it is better than THAT!!
We have no right to kill animals, try and grow some amize or meilies or something other than this disgusting habit, dont be morons with no compassion!!!!!
Please make this horrible stuff stop. These sweet animals do not deserve this not ever.
It must stop!
No one is more deserving of the Death Penalty than those who brutally torture and murder helpless dogs to engage in cannibalism.
Disgraceful
Thanks for being a big nothing!
We must keep up this fight until THEY see the light, until they realize that what is being done to dogs, cats is cruel, immoral, unconscionable, irrational, hateful and merciless — the suffering of these animals is horrific and beyond the pale. We MUST convince them that animals have value and above all, ANIMALS HAVE RIGHTS!
This is cruel and heartbreaking beyond words!! Your country is advanced in technology but yet so backwards in compassion toward other sentient beings, please stop this atrocity!!
You are what you eat, eating the flesh of all these suffering & tortured beings will not give you prosperity or health but only bad bad karma!!
ANIMALS HAVE RIGHTS!
It is very shameful that the United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon, being a Korean national has not taken action to end cruelty to animals, speciafically DOGS!!! Animals have RIGHTS!! You can see the sadness in the dog’s eyes!!
Please pay attention to this situation and TAKE ACTION ASAP!!!
modbydeligt, totur, i gør ved disse arme dyr, vil i selv behandles på denne måde ?????— stop dette modbydelige MORD, hunde og katte er liv som os, har føleser som os, hjerte som os, STOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP DISSE MODBYDELIGE MORD, NU grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
A great nation CAN only be great by showing the love for the innocent!
So please stop the dog/cat meat trade, if you are ‘one’.
Please STOP the evil acts
The world is going crazy! Cruelty to animals is off the charts!!! I so want to help each tail! Unbearable to watch pictures, you feel all the pain and suffering they do not deserve! Video I don’t watch…no strength…impossible!!! What they do with dogs and cats, it’s unexplainable!!! We need not stop to write, speak, call…to torture those who must decide and stop the massacre!!! So tortured as they do with animals! This must stop! Need to attract more people!
stop it!
PLease stop this, it is so cruel and the dogs suffer so much..This needs to STOP!!
Stop!! Now!! South korea dog meat Trade. . . Please Please
rescue this animals
from butchering
Sir Ki-Moon, please don’t ignore us to support dogs and cats so please stop, stop, stop killing them for people to eat or have meat trades in Korea, China, Viet Nam, Thailand or Asia. Please help cats and dogs to be free from the cages, boiling water, killing or slaughtering. Please help us to save the cats and dogs.
sir stop this nonsense
Stop this barbaric killings. You can do it.the blood of this poor animals is in your hands.
TO JEST NIE LEGALNE PRZESTANCIE TORTUROWAC PSY I KOTY.WSTYD I HANBA DLA CHIN SWIAT NA WAS PATRZY.WSCIEKLIZNA WAS WSZYSTKICH ZNISZCZY
READ THE BIBLE BOOK OF REVEALATION CHAPTER 1 VERSE 1 TO 7 TO IMAGINE DIVINE MYSTERY OF ALMIGHTY JESUS MOTHER QUEEN OF HEAVEN IN HUMAN HOLY MARY INTO ABOMINABLE SINS OF PROSTITUTION AND HER DAUGHTER ENCOURAGED HER IN IT AS CAPEVERDE AMERICA CITIZEN HERE, AND THEY COULD NOT REALISED THAT LATE EX ARCH ANGEL OF ALMIGHTY GOD INCHARGE OF HELL FIRE,ST URELL REVENGERS CO POWERS MOUNT THEM MISLEADING THEM,BLESSED ARE THOSE THAT HAVE NOT SEEN BUT BELIEVED ALMIGHTY JESUS TOLD DOUBTING THOMAS HIS DISCIPLE,IT IS THE DEATH OF THE ANGEL OF FIRE KILLED BY ALMIGHTY JESUS ON 15 JUNE 2013 CAUSED MY RELOCATION FROM CAPE VERDE WITH WORLD DELEGATES TO NIGERIA.
THE HOLY MOTHER OF ALMIGHTY GOD JESUS CHRIST,VIRGIN MARY IN HUMAN DISGUISED HONOURED IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH WORLDWIDE HAS BEEN INTO PROSTITUTIONS WITH UNCOUNTABLE MEN IN BENIN CITY,NIGERIA WHILE SLEEP WITH TWO GUYS ALL TRU THE NIGHT SOMETIMES NOW EXPOSED UNDENIABLE AND HER DAUGHTER A CAPEVERDE AMERICA ALSO HAVE BEEN INTO THE GAMES BETRAYING AMERICA.CALL ANY CONTACTS IN BENIN CITY AND HEAR MORE OR FOREIGN EMBASSIES.your excellency
The only way to tell these outdated, backwards & historically barbaric countries is to boycott. These parasitic barbarians only understand greed & money. BOYCOTT all products from these countries, shame on you!!!!!
tutto il mondo dovrebbe boicottare non visitando non consumando prodotti di questo paese tanto insensibile e crudele nei confronti di questi animali intelligenti e buoni che da centinaia di anni aiutano il genere umano in tante diffcoltà