Tuer des êtres vivants pour les manger est une abomination. Les animaux et en particulier les chiens et les chats qui vivent chez nous, parmi nous et font partie de notre famille ne sont pas de la nourriture. Une telle cruauté est inacceptable. Il faut que ce massacre s’arrête. Il y a suffisamment d’autres nourritures pour ne pas torturer, blesser, tuer de pauvres animaux, comme les chiens et chats innocents. Agir ainsi est une véritable honte pour tout le pays.

In good conscience I will boycott any country involved in such savage behavior. Karma is coming so recognize it.

Dogs and cats are pets not food.

You do not enforce the laws that you have in place to protect the animals so the laws are made useless by you. It is just for pretense and matters not to you because you want to reap the profit from your horrific companion animal meat industry. We have fought and exposed the Japanese people for murdering the dolphins and now we need to do the same with your people so all people in the world can be made aware of your cruel nation and your actions. You can no longer hide behind laws you refuse to enforce and continue to profit. Even People all voer the world they now it,
A live in Belgium, not in the US, we call your country, the dog savages, the dog eaters, the people with NO HEART, AND THE PEOPLE WHO LOVES THERE MONEY BEFORE THE WELL BEING, OF THESE POOR ANIMALS. You are all murderess.

There is no place for this barbaric torture in today’s world. Stop this now. Shame on you

Stop this now. Shame on you

Arrêtez de torturer ces pauvres animaux ! ce sont nos bébés, nos enfants…
Vous êtes inhumains…
STOP STOP STOP !!!!!
I BOYCOTT KOREA !

Stop this cruelty .

STOPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP NOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!FESTIVAL DE ASESINOS!!!!!!!!

Dear Mayor Marick,

We would like to thank you very much for responding to our petition asking for you to make contact with Mayor Eun-Seong Hwang of Anseong, to urge him to put an end to this trade and thereby the cruelty it embodies.

We note, with sadness, however, that the response you received from their city offices is completely disingenuous in that they are simply confirming that these laws are in place in their country. What they appear to have failed to deny is that these laws are being transgressed throughout South Korea on a daily basis: the collected evidence speaks for itself, for example the filming by the Korea Observer, published on Youtube, the clip of which was referenced in our petition.

This video, confirming such transgression, is not an isolated example: many pictures, videos, and witness testimonies from caring South Korean Citizens, are available for public viewing on many forms of social media.

As noted in a letter to President Obama, the following laws are in place in South Korea, but they are being transgressed all over the country in many ways, including in Anseong; for example:

• Livestock Product Sanitary Control Act, Article 2, Item 1 – technically makes the dog meat industry illegal
• Food Sanitation Act, Article 7, Clause 1 – does not include dogs in the list of raw materials that can be processed and cooked as food, therefore making raising and slaughtering dogs for consumption illegal
• Animal Protection Act, Article 3 – basic principles for protection of animals: in violation of these principles, dogs and cats are kept in unsanitary and appallingly inhumane conditions whilst being raised or bred for this industry
• Animal Protection Act, Article 8 – prohibition of animal abuse: dogs and cats are deliberately made to suffer throughout their lives and through the purposefully prolonged deaths (they are boiled alive, beaten or blowtorched to death etc.), in the ignorant belief that this will make the meat more delicious, or the medicinal properties more efficacious
• Animal Protection Act, Article 9 – animal transportation: the methods of transportation for dogs destined for the meat trade violate this act: tied by neck behind vehicles, packed tightly into cages, which are multi-stacked on top of each other, with no welfare considerations whatsoever
• Animal Protection Act, Article 46 – Punishment: policing and enforcement of these laws does not happen – generally a flat denial of any wrong-doing is given

In addition, Yong-Geun Ann(professor at the Department of Food and Nutrition at Chung Cheong College, and president of The Korean Society of Food and Nutrition – and self-named ‘Dr Dog’), contrary to recognized medical evidence, actively promotes dog eating (“The World Health Organization has warned that eating dog meat increases the risk of contracting cholera 20-fold”).

It is worth noting, too, that while trying to justify dog eating, Mr Ann is quoted in The Korea Herald, (August 2011), as saying :
“Ironically, many of the people who oppose the eating of dog meat are Korea’s own animal protection activists. The government supported these groups by enacting an animal protection law to shun criticism from foreign countries.”

To illustrate the scale of the dog meat business in Anseong, a simple search for “Anseong Dog Meat Restaurant” on a popular search engine in South Korea (called Naver business directory search) produced a list of 71 search results. This proves just how many dog farms and slaughterhouses there must be in, or in close proximity to that city, to be able to supply meat to all of these restaurants (and how many others?).

Mayor Marick, we, therefore, urge you to once again review the evidence, and to do everything in your power to help bring an end to the dog meat trade in your Sister City, Anseong.

Sincerely,

PLEASE bring attention to the horrors inflicted on hundreds of thousands of dogs AND cats in South Korea on barbaric ‘meat dog’ farms. — WHAT RATIONAL, COMPASSIONATE, MORAL & RESPECTABLE SOCIETY WOULD ALLOW THIS?  — Where’s the rationality?  —  Where’s the compassion?  —  This is pure insanity and horror beyond the pale — PLEASE, LET’S DO THE RIGHT THING —  LET’S ABOLISH THESE DRACONIAN, BRUTAL FARMS — LET’S RESCUE THESE DOGS & CATS.