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Niles, Illinois: Tell Friendship City, Yeoju, 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.

Yeoju became Friendship City with Niles, Illinois in 2016.

In Yeoju, there are hundreds of 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 Yeoju’s dog meat demand.

Two searches on Naver (the most popular search engine in Korea) – 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” – resulted in dozens of so-called ”Health Centers” and dog meat restaurants in the vicinity of Yeoju.

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 Yeoju to supply these outlets.

Click HERE for the list of dog farms and slaughterhouses in Yeoju.

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 to the elected officials of Niles :

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  CC (Carbon Copy) the Yeoju and Gyeonggi-do Provincial governments:

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• 📬 Send letter (Use the below-suggested message or petition):

  Mayor’s Office
  Village of Niles
  1000 Civic Center Dr.
  Niles, IL 60714
  USA

  Send a copy of your letter to Yeoju Mayor Lee Hang-Jin:
  Mayor Lee Hang-Jin
  Yeoju City Hall
  1 Sejong-ro, Yeoju, Gyeonggi-do
  Postal Code 12619
  South Korea

  Address in Korean:
  이항진 여주시장님
  여주시청
  (12619) 경기도 여주시 세종로 1
  South Korea

• Send a message through Facebook page:
  Niles
  Yeoju
  Suggested message

  Subject: Please tell Friendship City, Yeoju, South Korea, That We’re Opposed to the Torture and Consumption of Dogs and Cats.

  Dear Mayor Alpogianis and members of the Niles Board of Trustees,

  We ask that you please watch the undercover videos from South Korea’s dog meat industry:
  
  Part 1 of 2: https://youtu.be/_ZVQjgGb4RQ
  Part 2 of 2: https://vimeo.com/754160791

  Yeoju has hundreds of horrific dog farms and dog slaughterhouses and is one of the largest dog meat consumption areas in South Korea. (Click for a partial list of dog farms and slaughterhouses operating in Yeoju. https://koreandogs.org/yeoju-dog-farms/)

  Do you think that Niles should be a Friendship city to any city that allows dogs and cats to be tortured and eaten? Please urge Yeoju Mayor Lee Hang-Jin 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 in Yeoju is in progress: https://chng.it/9yCx4Dbc
  The favor of your reply is requested.
  Thank you.
  Sincerely,

• ☎️ Call the Niles Mayor’s Office: 847-588-8014

  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 your Friendship city, Yeoju in South Korea.

  If I could explain: there are hundreds of illegal dog farms and slaughterhouses in Yeoju. Also 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 city would wish to be made aware of this issue, as you would not want to affiliate 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 Yeoju 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 Yeoju 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.

  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!

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  .@yeojusi .@hj_yeoju .@ggholic .@VNilesIL #Niles: Tell Friendship City, #Yeoju, #SouthKorea, That We’re Opposed to the Torture and Consumption of Dogs and Cats. 😢 https://koreandogs.org/yeoju-dog-farms/ 😭 https://chng.it/9yCx4Dbc #Dogmeat #Catmeat

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