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개식용화 산업의 폐해와 반대의 이유 http://youtu.be/yp8_Df2Tobg
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Produced by Korean Animal Welfare Association.
2005. According to the Extract Process Association’s statistics,
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each year the number of dogs slaughtered for consumption is approximately 500,000 for meat and approximately 800,000 for dog elixir.
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However, in reality since a lot of dogs are being raised in private houses for consumption,
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slaughters that aren’t counted is far more than these numbers and it is estimated that number will approach 2 million.
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What kind of environment are these countless dogs slaughtered being raised?
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And what kinds of problem does the logic that defends dog meat consumption hold?
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Inhumane Breeding Environment
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Since the ancient time, dogs have formed relationship with human as the closest animals.
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However, the way they are bred presently, dogs are forced to suppress that human friendly nature,
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in tiny and filthy spaces with severe emotional stress their entire lives
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and slaughtered brutally.
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Dogs have ambivalent nature.
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As an animal with the longest history of being part of human society, they are friendly to human by nature.
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On the other hand, since their ancestors are known to be wolves or Coyotes,
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they also have instinctive aggressive nature.
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Because of that and due to the severe stress from being bred in small and terrible conditions,
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naturally they can show aggressiveness and in this process, cruelty against them is committed frequently.
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Antibiotic Abuse Due to Unsanitary Breeding Environment
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Presently most of the dogs are being raised in extremely unsanitary condition.
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In these environment, dogs can easily be contracted with Parvovirus Enteritis, Canine Distemper or Brucella.
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Because of large amount of antibiotics is often used
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when these meat are consumed, antibiotic that remains in the meat is directly transferred and accumulated in human body
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and becomes a serious threat to human health.
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Cruelty During Slaughter
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Methods of slaughter mostly used are electrocution and strangulation by hanging.
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Many people mistakenly think the electrocution as a euthanasia, but this is equally cruel.
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Under the current law, electrocution is not a slaughter method that kills the animal
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but only a method to make them pass out before the slaughter.
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Electrocution can cause general paralysis but it takes a long time until the animals are completely killed.
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Because of this, dogs shocked by electricity physically paralyzed but still alive are forced to endure
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excruciating pain inside the fur removal rotating drum dying slowly in pure shock and horror.
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Fabrication of Argument to Legalize Dog Meat by Categorizing Dogs as for Meat and for Pet
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In reality, in the markets that sells dogs for meat, you can easily find the typical breeds of dogs that are raised as pets.
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Categorizing the dogs as for meat and for pet is only a human’s arbitrary categorization.
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Regardless of how they are categorized, they all feel the extreme suffering and fear.
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Furthermore, because of the belief that this is a traditional food culture hidden inside the dog meat consumption
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even if the dog meat consumption become illegal it is likely that slaughter of dogs in the private residences is likely to continue.
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Fabrication of Argument that Legal Slaughter is Humane and Painless
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The slaughter process of animals slaughtered under the current law such as cows, pigs and chickens
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causes excruciating pain beyond imagination.
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In current environment where the measure for humane slaughter isn’t available even for the legal livestock animals
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slaughtering dogs humanely will be almost impossible.
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Mass Breeding Through Legalization of Dog Meat Will Only Increase the Harmful Effects of Livestock Industry…
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Most of the meat that we consumed today are from mass breeding factory farms.
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These are operated at the expense of excruciating sufferings of animals
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and it is the main culprit of enormous destruction of environment.
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Furthermore, the amount of grain used to breed these animals is staggering and greater than needed to save the human dying of starvation.
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It’s obvious that as the number of industrialized animals grows, these harmful effect will only increase.
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Culture Changes.
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One of the strongest arguments defending dog meat consumption is that it is our traditional food culture.
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However, how long should we continue as a tradition
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a practice carried out by necessity when the food was scarce?
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England’s fox hunting that has been an old tradition already has become illegal.
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As a result of persistent effort opposing its cruelty, Spain’s old tradition of bullfighting became illegal as well.
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2007. Bullfighting legally banned in Barcelona, Spain.
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As you have seen, expanding beyond human right, attitude of how the animals are treated
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will the standard for judging moral superiority of a society in the future.
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To live up to the ever increasing demand for ethical treatment of animals and to become aware of the suffering of other lives,
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we must decisively change our thinking and change our eating habits.
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This is not only for the animals but most of all for us human beings.
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Korean Animal Welfare Association
www.animals.or.kr
