Sister City Campaign – Gunsan, South Korea
Update: 9/12/2018.
Tacoma, Washington, and Windsor, Canada: Tell Sister City, Gunsan, South Korea, That you oppose the torture and consumption of dogs and cats!
Gunsan Mayor Kang Im-June
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.
Gunsan, South Korea became a Sister City with Tacoma in 1979 and Windsor, Canada in 2005.
In Gunsan, 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 broad daylight. In addition, many abandoned and stolen former pets end up in this industry and are subject to the same cruelty.
Have you ever wondered what Hell is like? Click HERE to watch undercover videos from a dog slaughterhouse in Gunsan. There are no words to describe the daily horror of this “Hell On Earth.” And there are so many dog slaughterhouses, farms and meat markets like these all around Gunsan.
A Search Engine reveals the sickening scale of Gunsan’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 242 Health Food Shops and 36 dog meat restaurants in the vicinity of Gunsan.
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 Gunsan 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/
Call for Action
- Send an email to the Mayor Victoria Woodards and the city council members!(Use the below-suggested message or petition for email text)
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- Call the Mayor’s Office!
Phone: (253) 594-7848
Fax: (253) 591-5123 - Send a letter! (Use the below-suggested message or petition for letter text):
Mayor Victoria Woodards
Tacoma Municipal Building
747 Market Street
12th Floor
Tacoma, WA 98402 USA
Suggested message – Tacoma:
Dear Mayor Victoria Woodards and the Tacoma city council members:
Please watch the below undercover video from your Sister City, Gunsan, South Korea: https://youtu.be/fkS6gAchPjQ
https://koreandogs.org/
Do you think that Tacoma should be a Sister City to any city that allows dogs and cats to be tortured and eaten? Please urge Gunsan Mayor Kang Im-June to close down all illegal dog farms and slaughterhouses, markets, truckers, and restaurants that serve their products. An online petition calling for your support in ending the horrendous South Korean dog and cat meat cruelty is in progress: https://www.change.org/p/victoria-woodards-mayors-of-tacoma-and-windsor-tell-sister-city-gunsan-south-korea-that-we-re-opposed-to-torture-and-consumption-of-dogs-and-cats
The favor of your reply is requested.
Thank you,
[Your Name & City/Country]
Windsor Mayor Drew Dilkens
- Send an email to the Mayor Drew Dilkens!(Use the below-suggested message or petition for email text)[email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected];Send a copy to Gunsan City Council:[email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected];
- Call the Mayor’s Office!
Phone: (519) 255-6315
Fax: (519) 255-7796 - Send a letter! (Use the below-suggested message or petition for letter text):
Mayor’s Office
350 City Hall Square West
P.O. Box 1607
Windsor, Ontario N9A 6S1
Canada
Suggested message – Windsor:
Dear Mayor Drew Dilkens and the Windsor city council members:
Please watch the below undercover video from your Sister City, Gunsan, South Korea: https://youtu.be/fkS6gAchPjQ
https://koreandogs.org/
Do you think that Windsor should be a Sister City to any city that allows dogs and cats to be tortured and eaten? Please urge Gunsan Mayor Kang Im-June to close down all illegal dog farms and slaughterhouses, markets, truckers, and restaurants that serve their products. An online petition calling for your support in ending the horrendous South Korean dog and cat meat cruelty is in progress: https://www.change.org/p/victoria-woodards-mayors-of-tacoma-and-windsor-tell-sister-city-gunsan-south-korea-that-we-re-opposed-to-torture-and-consumption-of-dogs-and-cats.
The favor of your reply is requested.
Thank you,
[Your Name & City/Country]
No matter where you live, PLEASE SHARE these actions with your friends, especially those who live in Tacoma and Windsor, Canada!
Update June 19, 2015: We mailed our petition letters to the Mayor Strickland and Dilkens. Can we count on your voice, too?
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Q asco tu crueldad y la de tu raza
Please do something to stop these atrocities to living creatures! This is not what God intended for us to do to animals.
Q asco q ciman perro q asci de crueldad y peor que teniendoi el poder d cambiar algo no lo hagan
Cela suffit !!!! Plus de massacres d’un autre temps!! Nous sommes en 2015, nous plusieurs milliards d’humains sur cette planète. Les animaux étaient là avant nous, cessons de les considérer comme des êtres insensibles à la douleur.
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Please do something to stop these atrocities to living creatures! This is not what God intended for us to do to animals.
Ya no mas maltrato animal
Shocking, cruel, I have no words for these atrocities!
LET US END THE DOG & CAT MEAT SUFFERING — THE HORROR IS BEYOND THE PALE
I was horrified to see what torture they are inflicting on these innocent and loving souls. I am in anguish and pain, heartbroken by this. This is hell on earth. To inflict pain and suffering on another living being is wrong. We should boycott until they stop this horror. I hate these people for what they are doing here.
I desire that you and your people will sufer much more for the eternity tha those dear dogs sufered inthose days!
I hate your horrible kind!
Stop this inhuman slauther of this poor creatures. Why this brutality?
Creatures that eat everything that moves, you burn in Hell!
It has been shown that like humans cats and dogs have the capacity for courage , loyalty,love, compassion,joy in socializing and play. People are missing out big time when they abuse or disrespect these animals.
My heart hurts I cry can’t watch.The President of Korea, no heart, no children, let God punish you.
I am just so shocked that people can continue with this cruelty to animals! Do they get some satisfaction seeing these poor animals suffer!!!! SHAME ON YOU! To all you cruel people I say you will be punished one day for this cruelty. When the earthquakes come and the tsunamis come maybe then you will learn that what you are doing is unacceptable to us and to GOD!!!!!!
WE CAN’T STOP FIGHTING AGAINST IT!