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Mayor Joe Smith of North Little Rock: Tell Sister City, Uiwang, South Korea, That We’re Opposed to the Torture and Consumption of Dogs and Cats.

Uiwang Mayor Sung-Jei Kim

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.

Uiwang became Sister city with North Little Rock in 2000.
In Uiwang, 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 Uiwang’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 171 Health Food Centers; and 81 restaurants in the vicinity of the city of Uiwang.

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 Uiwang 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.

https://koreandogs.org/horrible-reality-of-meat-dog-farms-you-did-not-know/

Please sign petition, call and email North Little Rock Mayor Joe Smith 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]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected];
• Send message through Facebook pages:
  City of North Little Rock
• Send letter (Use the below-suggested message or petition):Mayor Joe Smith
  City Hall – 300 Main St.
  PO Box 5757
  North Little Rock, AR 72119
  USA

  Send a copy of your letter to Uiwang Mayor Sung-Jei Kim:
  Mayor Sung-Jei Kim
  City of Uiwang
  11 Sicheong-ro, Uiwang-si, Gyeonggi-do
  Postal Code 16075
  South Korea

  Address in Korean:

  김성제의왕시장님
  의왕시청
  [16075] 경기도 의왕시 시청로 11 (고천동)
  South Korea

• Call the Mayor Joe Smith’s office: Phone: (501) 975-8601
  Fax: (501) 975-8633
• Send a Twitter message!
  .@uiwangsi .@npil2580 .@nlrgov Mayor Smith, Plz urge Sister City Uiwang, Korea-Stop Torturing & Eating Dogs and Cats https://goo.gl/vPLDSd

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