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Mayor William ‘Rusty’ Bailey of Riverside: Tell Sister City, Seoul Gangnam District, 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.

Gangnam-gu District Mayor Yeon-Hee Shin

Seoul Gangnam District became Sister city with Riverside in 1999.

Culture, art, high-end shops, first-class hotels and fashionable streets – all can be found within Gangnam District in the ‘City of Korean Cultural Center and Global Advancement” regrettably, so can the dog meat restaurants and so-called ‘health-food centers’, places that brutally slaughter dogs and cats, to be served up as food and drinks.

There are countless dog 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.

A Search Engine reveals the sickening scale of Seoul Gangnam District’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 163 Health Food Centers; and 69 restaurants in the vicinity of the city of Seoul Gangnam District 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 Seoul Gangnam District to supply these outlets.

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

Video: Media Triage: The Dog Meat Professionals: South Korea.

Please sign petition, call and email Riverside Mayor William ‘Rusty’ Bailey, TODAY!

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

• No matter where you live, please SIGN OUR PETITION
• Email:
  [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected];

  CC (Carbon Copy) the Seoul Gangnam District:

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• Send message through Facebook pages:
  Mayor William ‘Rusty’ Bailey
  City of Riverside
• Send letter (Use the below-suggested message or petition):Mayor William ‘Rusty’ Bailey
  3900 Main St.
  Riverside, CA 92501
  USA

  Send a copy of your letter to Seoul Gangnam District Mayor Yeon-Hee Shin:
  Mayor Yeon-Hee Shin
  Seoul Gangnam District Office
  426 hakdong-ro (Samseong-dong)
  Gangnam-gu, Seoul
  Postal Code 06090
  South Korea

  Address in Korean:

  신연희구청장님
  서울 강남구청
  서울시 강남구 학동로426(삼성동) (06090)
  South Korea

• Call the Mayor’s office: (951)826-5551
• Send a Twitter message!
  .@riversidecagov .@Mayor_Bailey .@gn_family Mayor Bailey, Plz urge Sister City, Seoul Gangnam, Stop kill/eating Dogs https://goo.gl/9Y8f9U

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