Team Puerto Rico: Take a stand in Pyeongchang 2018 against the dog and cat meat trade!
Countdown to PyeongChang 2018
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PyeongChang, host to the 2018 Winter Olympics – the world will be watching South Korea, which is why this is the perfect time for you take action to support our campaign to end the horrific dog and cat meat trade in South Korea for good!
Let’s ask Team Puerto Rico to take a stand and speak out against this shameful trade. You can help by signing and sharing our petition, sending out letters and emails, and raising awareness of this brutal and barbaric practice and calling for an end to the trade by exposing this issue in social media.
Click HERE for the Team Puerto Rico Homepage.
Please sign petition, call, write and email the Comité Olímpico de Puerto Rico TODAY!
To make this easy we’ve included text for your call and emails below.
- Email: [email protected]; [email protected]
Click HERE to send an online message. - Send letter (Use the below-suggested message or petition):
Comité Olímpico de Puerto Rico
Avenida de la Constitución,
Edificio # 3, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00901
Puerto RicoSend a copy of your letter to the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Organizing Committee:
President & CEO Hee-Beom Lee
PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Organizing Committee
108-27, Olympic-ro, Daegwallyeong-myeon, Pyeongchang-gun, Gangwon-do
Postal Code 25347
South Korea - Send a message through Facebook page: Comité Olímpico de Puerto Rico
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Comité Olímpico de Puerto Rico: Take a stand in PyeongChang 2018 against the dog and cat meat trade!
Dear Comité Olímpico de Puerto Rico:
PyeongChang, South Korea, set to play host to the world in the 2018 Winter Olympics. An international gathering of elite athletes, sports fans, governments and businesses on such a grand scale is a unique platform for taking a meaningful stand against the widely condemned, barbaric and inhumane dog and cat meat trade in South Korea.
We know you are busy preparing for this epic sporting event. However, we urge you to spare just a few minutes of your time to watch this video, as fellow people with compassion for animals, whether they are raised for our consumption or as our companions, working partners and guardians, we know you will agree that the current practice and attitude of those involved in this medieval industry is completely unacceptable and abhorrent. https://youtu.be/_ZVQjgGb4RQ https://youtu.be/9SKVdNrfIZo
No living being deserves such a torturous existence. Forced to endure the most extreme deprivation and unimaginable torment from the moment they are born until the day they are brutally slaughtered; dogs (our best friends) are battery farmed – imprisoned in cramped, rusty, raised cages all their lives with no protection from extreme elements. They have no access to water, exercise, or medical care. Their eardrums are often burst to prevent them from barking. Until, often in front of other live dogs, they are electrocuted, hanged, beaten skinned or burnt alive in the ignorant belief that such suffering will improve their taste. Could you imagine this happening to your best friend?
This industry is by no means small scale, thousands upon thousands of dogs are factory farmed in this way every day, there is no emphasis on even the most basic and cheapest humane farming methods in this operation. This trade has no basis in promoting “culture” or tradition of the Korean people, it is purely driven by greed and the profits that can be made in this severely under-regulated, tax free sector which in itself is highly unsanitary and a severe risk to both human and animal health.
Please do not look the other way, please do not see this issue as a ‘cultural difference’, we urge you to look at this issue with unbridled compassion and to use whatever means or methods you can to add your voice to the many already calling for change in south Korea. This petition is just a start, we urge you to add your voice to social media and other campaigns. Please use this unique opportunity to help change the lives of so many dogs and cats condemned to a life in the meat trade. If South Korea knows the world is watching and is asking for change, and if South Korea wants to be respected as a nation of conscience, South Koreans need to strengthen their abysmal and outdated animal welfare laws and permanently ban dog and cat consumption. Please help us to bring about this change!
An online petition calling for your support in ending the horrendous South Korean dog and cat meat cruelty is in progress: https://www.change.org/p/comit%C3%A9-ol%C3%ADmpico-de-puerto-rico-puerto-rico-olympic-committee-take-a-stand-in-pyeongchang2018-against-the-dog-meat-trade
The favor of your reply is requested.
Thank you,[Your Name & City/Country]
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Comité Olímpico de Puerto Rico: ¡Adopte una postura en PyeongChang 2018 contra el comercio de carne de perro y gato!
Comité Olímpico de Puerto Rico:
PyeongChang, Corea del Sur, se prepara para ser el anfitrión mundial de los Juegos Olímpicos de Invierno de 2018. Un encuentro internacional que reúne atletas de élite, fans del deporte, gobiernos y empresas, en tan gran escala, que ofrece una oportunidad única de que se adopten decisiones significativas contra el bárbaro e inhumano comercio de carne de perro y gato en Corea del Sur, ampliamente condenado.
Sabemos que usted está ocupado preparándose para este épico evento deportivo. Sin embargo, lo instamos a dedicar sólo unos minutos, como simpatizante compasivo de los animales, para ver este video y constatar si estos animales deben criarse para el consumo o como compañeros nuestros de trabajo y guardianes. Sabemos que usted estará de acuerdo en que la actual práctica de consumirlos y la actitud de los involucrados en esta atrasada industria es inaceptable y aborrecible. https://youtu.be/_ZVQjgGb4RQ https://youtu.be/tEaa1GJo-Uo
Ningún ser vivo merece una existencia tan torturada. Son obligados a soportar los tormentos y privaciones más extremos imaginables desde el momento en que nacen hasta el día en que son brutalmente sacrificados. Los perros, nuestros mejores amigos, se crían hacinados en barracas, apretados dentro de jaulas de alambre suspendidas, oxidadas. Pasan toda la vida a la intemperie bajo climas extremos, sin acceso al agua, sin ejercicio ni atención veterinaria. Con frecuencia les revientan los tímpanos para evitar que ladren, hasta que, a menudo delante de otros perros vivos, son electrocutados, ahorcados, golpeados o quemados vivos por la irracional creencia en que tal sufrimiento mejora el sabor de la carne. ¿Puede imaginar si esto le hicieran a su mejor amigo?
De ninguna manera se trata de una industria en pequeña escala. Miles y miles de perros se crían en estas fábricas de animales todos los días, sin que le interese a esta industria aplicar siquiera los métodos de crianza humanizada más sencillos y baratos. Semejante comercio carece de toda base para promover la “cultura” o la tradición del pueblo coreano, pues se trata de algo puramente impulsado por la codicia y las ganancias que pueden lograrse en un sector que continúa peligrosamente sub-regulado y libre de impuestos, altamente insalubre en sí mismo al poner en riesgo la salud humana tanto como la de los animales.
Por favor, no mire hacia otro lado. Le rogamos que no tome este tema como una simple “diferencia cultural”: lo instamos a contemplarlo con viva compasión, y a que use cualquier medio o método capaz de agregar su voz a la de muchos otros que ya piden un cambio en Corea del Sur. Esta petición es apenas un comienzo. Lo invitamos a que sume su voz a las redes sociales y a otras campañas. Por favor, utilice esta oportunidad única para ayudar a cambiar la vida de tantos perros y gatos condenados de por vida al comercio de su carne. Si Corea del Sur entiende que el mundo la está observando y pidiendo que cambie, y si desea ser respetada como una nación con conciencia, los surcoreanos deben mejorar sus pésimas y anticuadas leyes de bienestar animal, prohibiendo en forma permanente el consumo de perros y gatos. ¡Por favor ayúdenos a lograr este cambio!
Una petición lanzada en la web solicita su ayuda para poner fin a la crueldad espantosa del comercio de carne de perro y gato en Corea del Sur: https://www.change.org/p/comit%C3%A9-ol%C3%ADmpico-de-puerto-rico-puerto-rico-olympic-committee-take-a-stand-in-pyeongchang2018-against-the-dog-meat-trade
Aguardamos su respuesta, por favor.
Gracias. - Call: Tel.: +1 787 723 3890
Fax: +1 787 721 6805 - Send a Twitter message!
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Video: The Dog Meat Professionals: South Korea. The Korea Observer.
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Sadism must not be part of the food supply chain.
This is so wrong on so many levels! I hope u hear their crys at night when they are trying to sleep!
ISN’T IT BAD ENOUGH THESE INNOCENT BIRDS ARE BORN JUST TO BE DEVOURED? JUST TRY TRY TO THROW YOUR BODY ON THE ASSEMBLY LINE & WAIT TO GET YOUR THROAT SLIT & HOPE TO HELL & HAVEN THAT YOUR DEAD BEFORE BE SCALDED ALIVE! TRY THIS ONE ON FOR SIZE!…..NOW COME-ON SAY THE BIG WORD WITH ME,.VEGAN-NOUN, IE, SOMEONE WHO GIVES A FUCK!
please stop this sick barbaric treatment of dogs