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Mayor Richard Kerr of Adelanto, California: Tell South Korea, to end the dog and cat meat trades before you will begin a city-to-city relationship.

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.

Adelanto, California is considering forming a sister city or similar relationships with a South Korean cities such as Osan, Busan or Pohang. Click HERE to learn more.

In South Korea, there are countless dog farms, 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 Osan, Busan and Pohang’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 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 44 Health Food Centers and 22 restaurants in the vicinity of Osan, 629 Health Food Shops and 172 restaurants in the vicinity of Busan, and 225 Health Food Centers; and 73 restaurants in the vicinity of Pohang.

Even if half of these ‘Health’ Centers and restaurants serve dog and cat ‘ingredients’ in one form or another, imagine how many dog/cat slaughterhouses must be in the vicinity of Osan to supply these outlets.

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

https://koreandogs.org/meat-dogs-in-wire-cages-feed-on-rotten-food-waste-slops/

Please sign petition, call, write and email the Adelanto Mayor TODAY!

• Send Email:
  [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected];
• Send letter (Use the below-suggested message):

  Mayor’s Office
  City of Adelanto City Hall
  11600 Air Expressway
  Adelanto, CA 92301
  USA

• Send a message through Facebook page:
  Adelanto
  Busan

  Suggested email/letter/Facebook message

  Dear Mayor Kerr and the City Council members,

  We understand that you are considering ways to form mutually productive and positive relationships within South Korea, for example: creating a sister city relationship.

  Before taking further steps towards creating any such opportunities, we ask you to please watch the videos of South Korea’s dog meat industry:
  https://youtu.be/ad-swLg6_rA
  https://koreandogs.org/horrible-reality-of-meat-dog-farms-you-did-not-know/
  https://koreandogs.org/dmp/
  https://koreandogs.org/companion-animals-for-consumption/.

  Do you think that your citizens would benefit from forming a cultural relationship with the cities that are indifferent to the horrific cruelty being carried out within it? If cities within South Korea are sincere in wishing to form any positive relationships with cities such as yours, they must take immediate steps to ban the sale or consumption of dog and cat meat products, and they must close down all their illegal dog farms and slaughterhouses, markets, truckers, and restaurants that serve these animal products.

  We are asking for your help: please contact your counterparts in the cities that you are currently in discussions with and let them know that you would not be willing to form any relationship whilst the horrendous South Korean dog and cat meat cruelty is in progress.
  The favor of your reply is requested.
  Thank you,

  [Your Name & City/Country]

• Call the Mayor’s Office: 760-881-0353

  Suggested phone message

  Hello, I’m calling to speak to someone in the Mayor’s Office to ask for their help on an important issue regarding new business and cultural relationship opportunities that are being considered with one or more cities within South Korea.

  If I could explain: dog-meat consumption is currently being practiced in these cities, regardless of the fact that it is illegal under South Korean Law – but the laws are not enforced, despite the growing opposition from pet owners across South Korea, and throughout the world.

  The dog and cat meat trades involve extreme and widespread animal cruelty, and the animals suffer unimaginable pain and distress. They cannot speak for themselves which is why I am calling on their behalf. And, I believe that, before any relationship is formed, your city would wish to be made aware of this issue, as you would not want to be affiliated with a city where illegal and immoral torture is being carried out on any animal, and particularly not on ones that are loyal, trusting creatures, which look up to us humans as their guardians.

  So, I am asking you to please speak with your counterparts in these cities to urge them to enforce their own laws, not ignore them, and to show compassion to their companion animals, and also respect to their own citizens, by bringing these trades to an end.

  With the Winter Olympics coming up in 2018, this is the time to make change; this is the time to stop the illegal, inhumane and unnecessary cruelty. I know that South Korea has many beautiful, admirable, and noble practices and customs worth preserving, but this is not one of them.

  Thank you for your time and understanding.

• Send a Twitter message!

  Suggested Twitter text

  .@BusanCityGovt .@bsy8680 .@inpohang .@gyeongsangbukdo .@CityofAdelanto Tell South Korea, to end the dog and cat meat trades before you will begin a city-to-city relationship.

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