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Chairman Tyrone E. Nelson of Henrico County: Tell Sister City, Yangju, South Korea, That We’re Opposed to the Torture and Consumption of Dogs and Cats.

Yangju Mayor Seong-Ho Lee

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.

Yangju became Sister city with Henrico County in 2008.

In Yangju, there are countless dog slaughterhouses, markets, and restaurants where the dogs, who have been tortured their entire lives, end up being slaughtered in the most inhumane ways, such as by electrocution, hanging, or beating, and then thrown into boiling water – sometimes while they are still alive. In many places, dogs are being killed in full view of other terrified, caged dogs; and this takes place in public and in broad daylight. In addition, many abandoned and stolen former pets end up in this industry and are subject to the same cruelty.

A Search Engine reveals the sickening scale of Yangju’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 184 Health Food Centers; and 122 restaurants in the vicinity of the city of Yangju.

Even if half of these ‘Health’ Food Centers and restaurants serve dog and cat ‘ingredients’ in one form or another, imagine how many dog/cat slaughterhouses must be present in the vicinity of Yangjuto supply these outlets.

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.

https://koreandogs.org/horrible-reality-of-meat-dog-farms-you-did-not-know/

Please sign petition, call and email Henrico County 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:
  Henrico County
• Send letter (Use the below-suggested message or petition):Board of Supervisors
  Henrico County
  P. O. Box 90775
  Henrico, VA 23273-0775
  USA

  Send a copy of your letter to Yangju Mayor Seong-Ho Lee:
  Mayor Seong-Ho Lee
  City of Yangju
  1533 Buheung-ro, Yangju, Gyeonggi-do
  Postal Code 11498
  South Korea

  Address in Korean:

  이성호 양주시장님
  양주시청
  (우) 11498 경기도 양주시 부흥로 1533 (남방동)
  South Korea

• Call the Chairman Tyrone E. Nelson’s office: Phone (804) 501-4208 Fax (804) 501-5361
• Send a Twitter message!
  .@yangjuforever .@npil2580 .@HenricoNews Chairman Nelson, Plz Urge Sister City Yangju-Stop Killing &Eating Dogs/Cats https://goo.gl/JsUJBx

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