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Early in the morning, on the side of Moran Market in Seongnam, bodies of dogs are taken off the truck.
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It is the carcass of dogs slaughtered at the Seulmoon-dong slaughterhouse in Goyang. The butcher caged the dogs he had bought at the auction houses, fixed their necks with a snare, electrocuted the dogs in front of other dogs, and sold the body to Moran Market.
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We have been tracking the whereabouts of the butchers, and have seen dogs slaughtered in Seulmoon-dong taken to various markets and Bosintang(Bosintang is the name of ‘dog meat’ soup) restaurants.
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The remaining 34 dogs and a mini-pig could have been rescued with the help of many citizens’ petition, KARA’s on-site complaint and Goyang City and Ilsan Police, but if not, they would have been killed and distributed as meat.

The 34 dogs rescued from the slaughterhouse were found to be three parvo-positive, ten corona-positive and six heartworm-positive. Two of them, in particular, died within a day after being rescued, vomiting blood. The current reality in South Korea is that dogs in this condition are secretly slaughtered, distributed, and sold as food at the Bosintang restaurants.
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The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety is a government agency that is responsible for the safety of food in South Korea. In response to an official inquiry from KARA in 2018, the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety made it clear that 📌 ‘dog meat does not meet the required classification for livestock and is not recognized as a food ingredient.’ However, they said, ‘since we have been eating dog meat for a long time due to our eating habits,’ it is difficult to ban the industry. The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety are therefore neglecting their duty to the public in continuing to allow the distribution of illegal dog carcasses. (Related post https://www.ekara.org/activity/against/read/10368)
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Dogs are illegally traded and slaughtered in many auction and slaughterhouses across the country, but the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety is still not cracking down on the clearly illegal industry.
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The distribution, cooking, processing, and selling of dog meat, which is not classified as a food ingredient, is clearly illegal under the Food Sanitation Act. The dereliction of duty by The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety, which is responsible for national hygiene and food safety, is simply unacceptable.
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Only your participation on petitions can move the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety to stop the nationwide dog meat trade!🙏
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🔥 Filing complaints to The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety 👉 www.epeople.go.kr
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Call for Action

• 👉 Click HERE to file a petition with the South Korean government through e-People online. (You can use our “Suggested message” below or use your own words.)
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• 👉 Click HERE to take actions urging Seongnam to shut down illegal dog meat industry.