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Sister Province Campaign – Gyeonggi Province, South Korea – British Columbia, Canada

✳️ This campaign replaces our previous campaign.

British Columbia: Tell your Sister Province, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea, that you are 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.

Gyeonggi Province became a Sister Province of British Columbia, Canada, in 2008.

On May 31, 2023, Gyeonggi Province Governor Kim Dong-Yeon met with David Eby, the Premier of British Columbia, Canada, to discuss collaboration between the two regions on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Korea and Canada and the 15th anniversary of the sisterhood between Gyeonggi Province and British Columbia. Photo: Gyeonggi Province.
Video: At a massive dog farm in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province, operated by a former president of the Korean Dog Farmers Trade Association, thousands of dogs endure excruciating conditions. They are confined to raised wire cages in cramped spaces where they cannot even turn around. Coexistence of Animal Rights on Earth (CARE).

The “Special Bill to end the breeding, slaughter, and distribution of dogs for consumption and dog meat consumption” was passed by South Korea’s National Assembly on January 9, 2024, mandating the cessation of all related operations. However, the dog meat trade has always been illegal, and despite this new legislation, there has been no change, and the situation remains dire for the dogs confined in dog farms across the country.

In Gyeonggi province, there are numerous dog farms, slaughterhouses, markets, and restaurants where the dogs, who are 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.

Video: Six hundred dogs suffer at a dog farm operated by a Korean Dog Farmers Association official in Yeoju. On March 3rd, the Coexistence of Animal Rights on Earth (CARE), CatchDog, and Sniper Anttol teams raided this large dog farm in Yeoju, Gyeonggi Province. CARE Part 1.

Video: Dogs who suffered their entire lives are electric tortured and killed in cages—South Korea’s horrific dog meat industry. jtbc News.[추적보도 훅] 철창 갇힌 채 감전사…’먹히기 위해’ 죽어가는 개들 / JTBC 뉴스룸

A Search Engine reveals the sickening scale of Gyeonggi Province’s dog meat demand.

Two searches on Naver (the most popular search engine in Korea) – one was for so-called “Health Centers” that 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 hundreds of Health Centers and dog meat restaurants in Gyeonggi Province.

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 Gyeonggi Province to supply these outlets.

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

Call for Action

  1. Phala Bowles
    Phala BowlesMay 22,24

    STOP THIS EVIL

  2. honorable Jooooolia
    honorable JoooooliaMay 22,24

    Disgraceful how humans behave. Cruelty and abuse are what they seem to love just to feed others, for commercial purposes. Animals can’t help being born. They are just souls in helpless bodies.

    Stop the torturous activity immediately. It is against all laws of morality. It is equal to human trafficking xxx

  3. Jaz Boutilier
    Jaz BoutilierMay 22,24

    There is no excuse for animal abuse the fact that people are still running farms where these poor sweet innocent animals are being kept in cages and butcher. It just breaks my heart. This has to end please these animals to serve forever, loving homes not to be cruel, murdered eaten, it’s just sick man

  4. Regina Barnett
    Regina BarnettMay 22,24

    This is pure evil..

  5. Urszula Lund
    Urszula LundMay 22,24

    SHAME on you South Korea!
    You are HUMAN MONSTERS, worse than Satan himself.

  6. Miranda Caylus
    Miranda CaylusMay 22,24

    I had my doubts that this evil trade would truly cease. Obviously the South Korean Government were not strict enough with enforcing the ban, as some people are clearly not paying attention to it.

  7. Anu Sipiläinen
    Anu SipiläinenMay 22,24

    Lopettakaa tuo kamaluus , Stop this evil !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  8. Helene Brigden
    Helene BrigdenMay 22,24

    It’s so sad to think that so many doesn’t see or think that this is an evil business. Without a conscience and a soul, life is just to exist with no hope of joy and love to give or to receive. Thank goodness for CARE, the angels that prove that compassion and pity is there to save the victims of such grotesque cruelty.

  9. Nanci Cox
    Nanci CoxMay 22,24

    This should never have been. Animal activist have been trying to get these so called farms shut down for a long time. This needs to end now.

  10. Roulet
    RouletMay 22,24

    Que ces monstres soient damnés !!

  11. CHRISTINE PHILLIPS
    CHRISTINE PHILLIPSMay 23,24

    Boycott this country you can tell what a country is like by the way they treat their animals.!!

  12. Johanna Schwarzer
    Johanna SchwarzerMay 24,24

    Es können keine Menschen sein, die hilflosen Mitgeschöpfen solch ein Leid zufügen. Die Regierung von Südkorea ist wieder einmal gefragt, endlich hart durchzugreifen, damit die Hunde/Katzen Höllen für immer geschlossen werden.Eine große Schande für das Land! Wir leben im 21.Jahrhundert und nicht mehr im Mittelalter!

  13. Sandra Kirchberger
    Sandra KirchbergerJune 2,24

    I thought we were done with this disgrace!!!! I just can NOT believe that I am still signing these petitions!!! What is wrong with this country!!!!

  14. Sigina Thami
    Sigina ThamiJune 21,24

    Pourquoi toute cette souffrance le chien est capable de détecter des maladies très grave comme le cancer il sert de guide pour les aveugles comment osez vous les traiter de la sorte savez vous seulement que cette souffrance que vous faites endurer à ces êtres d’une bonté sans norme vous devrez en rendre des comptes à la hauteur de la souffrance que vous leur faites endurer je prie pour cela nous prions pour que la facture de vos actes vous reviennent en retour prennez le temps de réfléchir a vos actes prennez ce temps car il vous sera compté.

  15. CAROL WARNER
    CAROL WARNERJune 22,24

    ALL NATIONS MUST STAND UP AND TAKE A STAND AGAINST THIS CRUELTY AND DEMAND IT BE STOPPED OTHERWISE THEY MUST ALL HANG THEIR HEADS IN ABSOLUTE SHAME.

  16. Robert J Boklund
    Robert J BoklundJune 22,24

    “Dog farms” are great disgrace to Korea! They are animal concentration camps that make Koreans look like cannibals! They all must end NOW!!!
    This cruel, dishonorable

  17. ms
    msJune 27,24

    STOP obscene HORROR to Animals —

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