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Newsletter – July 22, 2019

 
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Daegu to consider plans to close down
 dog slaughterhouses by next year

 
 
The city of Daegu will consider plans to close down dog slaughterhouses in the Chilseong Market by next year. These plans include solutions for the livelihood of the shop owners. 
 
Daegu Mayor Kwon Young-Jin said on July 17, “The problem of dog meat consumption goes against current trends, and dog slaughterhouses located in the center of Daegu have negative effects on our emotions (sentiment).”
 
Mayor Kwon also stated, “If the dog slaughterhouses were to close down, there’s the livelihood issue for these businesses, so we will find various ways to help them which includes measures to support their livelihood.“
 
Daegu Chilseong Market had dog slaughterhouses even before the Chilseong Market became permanently established in the 1940s. There are now two dog slaughterhouses and 17 restaurants and dog soju places that sell dog meat in the Chilseong Market.
 

It’s official! Los Angeles Mayor, Eric Garcetti,
has approved the “Dog Meat Resolution”.

 
Los Angeles Mayor, Eric Garcetti, has approved the City Council Resolution which requests that the governments of China, Vietnam, South Korea, Cambodia, and Indonesia ban the sale of dog meat and to enforce their animal cruelty laws! Now it’s become the official position of the city of Los Angeles!!
This is a significant development because Los Angeles is a big trading partner with Korea and most likely, with the other countries named in this resolution. Los Angeles also has the largest population of Koreans in the United States. 
 

Dogs Are Burned Alive!
CARE’s Investigation and Rescue in Cheonan

 
 
We received a report about a dog slaughterhouse and dog farm in Cheonan, a city about one and a half hours south of Seoul, at which the owner of the slaughterhouse killed the dogs in an especially brutal way. With one of the boknal days—the three hottest days of the year when dog meat consumption increases—a couple of days away on the 22nd, we went to investigate on the evening of the 20th.
 
What we encountered when we arrived was horrific even for experienced investigators.
 
There were broken cages with dogs tied with short leashes exposed to the elements—it’s monsoon season in South Korea, and there have been a couple of days of heavy rain. There were cages on the ground—they are usually raised off the ground—with dogs standing or lying in muddy puddles. In total there were about one hundred dogs on this farm.
 
However, that wasn’t the worst of it.
 
This dog farmer slaughtered dogs in a particularly brutal way; they were hung by the neck and blow-torched alive. The slaughtering was done outside in full view of any dogs unfortunate enough to be able to see the area in which it was done.
 

 
Photo: Dog slaughterhouse in Cheonan, South Korea.  CARE.
 

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