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Mayor Joe Gunter of Salinas, California: Tell Sister City, Seogwipo, 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.

Seogwipo became Sister city with Salinas, California in 2018.

In Seogwipo, there are countless dog farms, 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. 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 Seogwipo’s dog meat demand.

Searches turned up dozens of Health Food Shops and dog meat restaurants in and within the vicinity of Seogwipo.

Even if only half of these ‘Health’ Food Shops and restaurants serve dog and cat ‘ingredients’ in one form or another, just imagine how many dog/cat slaughterhouses must be present in the area to supply these outlets. Click HERE to see the list of dog farms/slaughterhouses in Seogwipo.

Video: Coexistence of Animal Rights on Earth (CARE). Dog meat industry in Jeju-do, South Korea.

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

Video: The Korea Observer. The Dog Meat Professionals: South Korea.

Call for Action

• Click below to send an online message to the Salinas Mayor and the City Council members. (Use the below-suggested message or petition)
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• 📧 Send emails to the Jeju Special Self-Governing Provincial Council and the Audit Committee members.(Use the below-suggested message or petition)
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• Send letter to the Mayor of Salinas (Use the below-suggested message or petition):
  City Hall
  Attention: Mayor and the City Council members
  200 Lincoln Ave.
  Salinas, CA 93901 USA

  Send a copy of your letter to Seogwipo Mayor Yang Yun-Kyung:
  Mayor Yang Yun-Kyung
  City of Seogwipo
  105 Jungang-ro, Seogwipo, Jeju-do
  Postal Code 63584
  South Korea
  Address in Korean:
  양윤경 서귀포 시장님
  서귀포시청
  (63584) 제주특별자치도 서귀포시 중앙로 105
  South Korea

• Send a message through Social Media (Facebook/Twitter):
  City of Salinas
  Mayor Joe Gunter
  City of Seogwipo

  📝 Suggested message

  Subject: Seogwipo, South Korea’s cruel dog and cat meat industry

  Dear Mayor Gunter and the Salinas City Council members,

  We ask you to please watch the videos of South Korea’s dog meat industry:
  https://koreandogs.org/seogwipo-dog-farms/
  https://youtu.be/_ZVQjgGb4RQ
  https://vimeo.com/754160791
  https://koreandogs.org/horrible-reality-of-meat-dog-farms-you-did-not-know/
  https://youtu.be/cCdTceduKcY

  Do you think that Salinas should be a Sister city to any city that allows dogs and cats to be tortured and eaten? Please urge Seogwipo Mayor Yang Yun-Kyung to close down all those illegal dog farms and slaughterhouses, markets, truckers, and restaurants that serve these animal products. An online petition calling for your support in ending the horrendous South Korean dog and cat meat cruelty is in progress: http://bit.ly/SalinasSeogwipo

  The favor of your reply is requested.

  Thank you!

  [Your Name & City/Country]

• Call the Mayor’s Office: +1-831-758-7381

  Suggested phone message

  Hello, I’m calling to speak to someone in the Mayor’s Office to ask for their help on an important issue regarding your Sister city, Seogwipo in South Korea.

  If I could explain: dog-meat consumption is currently being practiced in that city, even though it is illegal under South Korean Law – but the laws are not enforced. The dog and cat meat trades involve extreme and widespread animal cruelty, and the animals suffer unimaginable pain and distress. They cannot speak for themselves which is why I am calling on their behalf. And, I believe that your city would wish to be made aware of this issue, as you would not want to be affiliated with a city where illegal and immoral torture is being carried out on any animal, and particularly not on ones that are loyal, trusting creatures, which look up to us humans as their guardians.

  These illegal trades are being allowed to continue by Korean authorities – even though there is growing opposition from pet owners across South Korea, and throughout the world.

  So, I am asking you to please speak with your counterparts in Seogwipo to urge them to enforce their own laws, not ignore them, and to show compassion to their companion animals, and also respect to their own citizens, by bringing these trades to an end.

  This is the time to make change; this is the time to stop the illegal, inhumane and unnecessary cruelty. I know that South Korea has many beautiful, admirable, and noble practices and customs worth preserving, but this is not one of them.

  Thank you for your time and understanding.

• Send a Twitter message!

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  .@sgpmaster .@CityofSalinas Please Urge Sister City Seogwipo, South Korea-Stop torturing and consumption of dogs and cats. http://bit.ly/SalinasSeogwipo

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Videos: Shocking Cruelty of South Korean Dog Meat Industry Part 1 and 2. Coexistence of Animal Rights on Earth (CARE).