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Fairfax County: Tell Friendship City, Icheon, South Korea, That We’re Opposed to the Torture and Consumption of Dogs and Cats.

Icheon Mayor Eam Tai-Joon

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.

Icheon became Friendship city with Fairfax County in 2013.

In Icheon, 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 Icheon’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 131 Health Food Shops and 61 restaurants in the vicinity of Icheon.

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 Icheon 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 Email:
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• Send online message:
  Chairman
  Board of Supervisors for Lee District
  Board of Supervisors for Providence District
• Send letter: (Use the below-suggested message or petition)
  Fairfax County Chairman’s Office
  Government Center
  12000 Government Center Parkway Suite 530
  Fairfax County, VA 22035
  USA

  Send a copy of your letter to Icheon Mayor:
  Mayor Eam Tai-Joon
  Icheon City Hall
  40 Buak-ro, Icheon-si, Gyeonggi-do
  Postal Code 17379
  South Korea

  Address in Korean:
  엄태준 이천시장님
  이천시청
  [17379] 경기도 이천시 부악로 40
  South Korea

• Send a message through Facebook page:
  Fairfax County
  Icheon

  Suggested Message

  Dear Chairman and the members of the Board of Supervisors,

  We sincerely ask that you please watch the videos of South Korea’s dog meat industry: https://youtu.be/_ZVQjgGb4RQ
  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 Fairfax County should be a Friendship city to any city that allows dogs and cats to be tortured and eaten? Please urge Icheon Mayor Eam Tai-Joon to close down all those illegal dog farms and slaughterhouses, markets, truckers, and restaurants that serve these animal 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/mayor-madeline-Bulova-of-Fairfax County-tell-Friendship-city-Icheon-korea-that-we-re-opposed-to-the-torture-consumption-of-dogs-cats
  The favor of your reply is requested.
  Thank you.

• Call the Mayor’s Office:
  Phone: 703-324-2321, Fax #: 703-324-3955
  

  Suggested phone message

  Hello, I’m calling to speak to someone in the Chairman of Board of Supervisor’s Office to ask for their help on an important issue regarding your Friendship city, Icheon in South Korea.

  If I could explain: dog-meat consumption is currently being practiced in that city, even though it is illegal under South Korean Law – but the laws are not enforced. 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 your county would wish to be made aware of this issue, as they 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.

  These illegal trades are being allowed to continue by Korean authorities – even though there is growing opposition from pet owners across South Korea, and throughout the world.

  So, I am asking you to please speak with your counterparts in Icheon 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.

  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

  .@2000happy.@ggholic .@fairfaxcounty Please Urge Friendship City, Icheon, Korea-Stop torture/eating dogs https://goo.gl/RGS4TB

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