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Grand Rapids Mayor Rosalynn Bliss: Tell Sister City, Seoul Gangnam District, South Korea, that you are 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.

Seoul Gangnam District became a Sister city with Grand Rapids, Michigan, on September 26, 2021.

Culture, art, high-end shops, first-class hotels and fashionable streets – all can be found within Gangnam District in the ‘City of Korean Cultural Center and Global Advancement” regrettably, so can the dog meat restaurants and so-called ‘health-food centers,’ places where horribly abused and brutally slaughtered dogs and cats are served up as food and drinks.

In South Korea, there are countless dog slaughterhouses, markets, and restaurants where the dogs, who are tortured their entire lives, end up being slaughtered in the most inhumane ways, such as by electrocution, hanging, stabbing, 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 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 Seoul Gangnam District’s dog meat demand.

Two searches on Naver (the most popular search engine in Korea) – one was for so-called “Health 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” – resulted in many dozens of Health Centers and dog meat restaurants in the vicinity of Gangnam District.

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 Seoul Gangnam District to supply these outlets.

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

Call for Action

• 📧 Send emails to the elected officials of Grand Rapids:

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  CC (Carbon Copy) the Seoul Gangnam District and Seoul Metropolitan governments:

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• 📬 Send letter (Use the below-suggested message or petition):

  Grand Rapids Mayor Rosalynn Bliss
  300 Monroe Avenue NW,
  Grand Rapids, MI 49503
  USA

  Send a copy of your letter to Seoul Gangnam District Mayor Jeong Sun-Gyun:
  Mayor Jeong Sun-Gyun
  Seoul Gangnam District Office
  426 hakdong-ro
  Gangnam-gu, Seoul
  Postal Code 06090
  South Korea

  Address in Korean:

  정순균구청장님
  서울 강남구청
  (06090)서울시 강남구 학동로426
  South Korea

Suggested message

Subject: Grand Rapids Mayor Rosalynn Bliss and the Grand Rapids Commissioners: Tell Sister City, Seoul Gangnam District, South Korea, that you are opposed to the torture and consumption of dogs and cats.

Dear Mayor Rosalynn Bliss and the Grand Rapids Commissioners:

We ask you to please watch the videos from South Korea’s dog meat industry:
Part 1 of 2: https://youtu.be/_ZVQjgGb4RQ
Part 2 of 2: https://vimeo.com/754160791
Dogs who suffered their entire lives are electric tortured and killed in cages—South Korea’s horrific dog meat industry: https://koreandogs.org/jtbc-news-electric-tortured-in-cages/

Do you think Grand Rapids should be a Sister City to any city/district that allows dogs and cats to be tortured and eaten by people?

Seoul Gangnam District is one of the largest dog meat consumption districts in South Korea. There are numerous dog farms, dog slaughterhouses, dog meat restaurants, and so-called “Health Centers” serving soup made of dog meat as an elixir in Seoul. Dogs suffer their entire lives in filthy, feces encrusted raised wire cages, with no protection from frigid temperature, forced to eat rotten and molded kimchi with red chili peppers in utter misery only to be slaughtered in the most horrific ways. They are killed by electrocution, hammer strikes to their head and necks, being hung, being beaten to death, having their throats slit, being burned alive with a blowtorch, or thrown into a vat of boiling water while still alive. In many places in Seoul, dogs are killed in full view of other terrified, caged dogs who tremble with terror. In addition, people’s beloved pets are often stolen and sold to these businesses, where they meet the same horrific fate. Dogs and puppies who died of diseases are tossed away like garbage, often left in front of cages to rot while the mother dogs watch and cry out in despair for their dead babies.

The Korean internet searches resulted in many dozens of Health Centers which commonly sell dog/cat elixirs (also known as dog soju and cat soju) and dog meat restaurants in the vicinity of Seoul Gangnam District.

Would you please urge Seoul Gangnam District Mayor Jeong Sun-Gyun to close down all illegal dog farms and slaughterhouses, markets, truckers, and restaurants that serve their products? An online petition calling for your support in ending the horrendous dog and cat meat cruelty in Seoul Gangnam District is in progress: https://chng.it/ZGhTj4hv

On behalf of all the animals suffering unimaginable cruelty in the dog and cat meat industry, we thank you in advance and await your reply.

Sincerely,

• ☎️ Call the Grand Rapids’ mayor’s office:(616) 456-3168
• Send a Twitter message!
  .@gn_family .@seoulmania .@CityGrandRapids .@mayorbliss #Gangnam #Seoul Grand Rapids Mayor Rosalynn Bliss: Tell Sister City, Seoul Gangnam District, South Korea, That We’re Opposed to the Torture and Consumption of Dogs and Cats. https://chng.it/ZGhTj4hv 🐾 https://youtu.be/yWNtuHkfHKg

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