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[Update October 19, 2016] We have received a response from the City of Hampton. In response to our Campaign, and the many e-mails received from our supporters, City of Hampton made contact with their counterparts in Anyang. Click HERE to read more and to send a thank you email to the Mayor and the members of the City Council of Hampton.

Mayor Donnie Tuck of Hampton, Virginia: Tell Sister City, Anyang, South Korea, That We’re 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.

Anyang Mayor Pil-Un Lee

Anyang became Sister city with Hampton in 1989.
Quoted directly from the city’s homepage, “The word “Anyang“ itself means, in Buddhism, a cozy utopia where there is no pain and only joy, and where pain has been overcome. It is in Buddhism that there is a paradise where the body can rest and the mind is at ease.”

The helpless and defenseless population of this city however, know nothing but pain and suffering. Joy is unknown as at the hands of their abusers, dogs and cats are ruthlessly tortured. Anyang, a place that should be a utopia free of needless suffering and pain is still a place where dogs and cats are routinely treated cruelly, before being brutally slaughtered – so they can be served up as food and drinks for their many (so-called) ‘health food’ centers and restaurants.

Let’s tell Anyang that the true meaning of a land of ‘no pain, only joy’ is one where the dog and cat-meat trades no longer exist. Let’s encourage the citizens on Anyang to show the world the true meaning of overcoming pain with acts of compassion by standing up and ending the dog meat trade.

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

Shown below are two search results on Naver (the most popular search engine in Korea) – the first one was for so-called “Health Food Centers” which commonly sell dog elixirs and cat elixirs (also known as dog soju and cat soju), and the second one was for “dog meat restaurants.”

The searches resulted in dozens of 169 Health Food Centers; and 70 restaurants in the vicinity of the city of Anyang alone.

If every one of these ‘Health’ Food Centers and restaurants serve dog and cat ‘ingredients’ in one form or another, it is too awful to think how many dog/cat farms and slaughterhouses must be present in the vicinity of Anyang to supply all of these outlets – and those that might appear under a different ‘search’.

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

Video: Media Triage: The Dog Meat Professionals: South Korea.

Please sign petition, call and email Hampton Mayor Donnie Tuck, TODAY!

To make this easy we’ve included text for your call and emails below.

• No matter where you live, please SIGN OUR PETITION
• Email: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected];
• Send message through Facebook pages:
  City of Hampton
• Send letter (Use the below-suggested message or petition):Mayor Donnie R. Tuck
  22 Lincoln Street
  8th Floor, City Hall
  Hampton, VA 23669
  USA

  Send a copy of your letter to Anyang Mayor Pil-Un Lee:
  Mayor Pil-Un Lee
  Anyang Government
  235 Simin-Daero, Dongan-gu, Anyang, Gyeonggi-do, postal code 14053
  South Korea

  Address in Korean:
  안양시청
  경기도 안양시 동안구 시민대로 235(관양동) 우편번호 14053
  South Korea

• Call the Mayor: 1-757-727-6315 Fax: 1-757-728-3037
• Send a Twitter message!
  .@cityofhampton .@DonnieTuck .@anyanglove Mayor Tuck: Plz urge Sister City, Anyang-Stop Killing &Eating Dogs & Cats! https://goo.gl/DDnf4h

No matter where you live, PLEASE SHARE these actions with your friends, especially those who live in Hampton!