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Jeju, S. Korea – Dogs fed dead pigs infected with bacteria and distributed nationwide as dog meat
Translation of Korean News: Asia News Agency http://www.anewsa.com/detail.php?number=486994&thread=09r03 See more photos here: http://www.jejusori.net/news/articleView.html?idxno=128975 Dogs fed dead pigs infected with bacteria and distributed nationwide as dog meat A group that used pigs died of diseases as feed for dogs and distributed these dogs as meat nationwide …
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Puppy Dragged Behind Motorcycle in Uiwang, S. Korea
[Update – 5/1/2013] KAWA (Korean Animal Welfare Association) persuaded the old man to hand over the ownership of this puppy who wasn’t even treated properly for his injuries and took him to the hospital for treatment. Click here to see the photos from when KAWA …
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Venerable Beopjeong Buddhist Priest’s Argument Against Dog Meat Consumption (English Translation) 법정스님의 개식용반대론
Translated by koreandogs.org and volunteers. Please share! Venerable Beopjeong Buddhist Priest’s Argument Against Dog Meat Consumption (Beopjeong Sunim: 1932 – 2010) Korea became a co-host of the World Cup soccer tournament with Japan in 2002. Along with this great news was criticism by foreign animal …
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Dongducheon (Yeoncheon, S. Korea) Animal Shelter’s Bizarre Behavior
Translation of CARE’posting: 동두천시, 연천군 유기동물보호소 엽기행각전말, 동두천사건, 여기까지 진행중입니다 Full Account of Dongducheon (Yeoncheon, S. Korea) Animal Shelter’s Bizarre Behavior. (Translated from CARE’s posting) Unification Animal Hospital contracted to operate animal shelter for the city of Dognducheon was recently terminated for illegal activities as …
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Boshintang(dog meat soup) is not a health food…Why? Exposing myths and facts about summertime health food from a vegetarian doctor of oriental medicine
http://news.hankooki.com/lpage/society/201107/h2011070408443621950.htm 보신탕은 보양식이 아니다… 왜? 채식주의 한의사가 밝히는 여름철 보양식의 허와 실 전세화 기자 [email protected] 최근 경기도 성남에서 열기로 했던 ‘개고기 축제’가 개고기 식용을 둘러싼 논쟁에 다시 불을 지폈다. 일단 이 행사는 동물보호단체의 반발로 무산됐지만 오는 14일부터 이어지는 ‘복날’을 앞두고 또 다시 세간의 논쟁거리로 떠오를 …
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Send ugly Jindo dogs to dog meat restaurants?
Meaningless Jindo dog promotion project, only profiting pet dog industry This is a translation of Korean News: http://ojs7.ohmynews.com/NWS_Web/View/at_pg.aspx?CNTN_CD=A0001195061 Symbol of our nation, Jindo dogs. Although Jindo dogs have been maintaining its status as the national dog with government assistance, in reality driven by the trend …
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Citizen Suit to Save Our Earth and Life (In response to the live burial of animals during the Foot & Mouth Disease outbreak in 2010-11)
Video: Pigs Buried Alive in Korea. By CARE (Coexistence of Animal Rights on Earth). Source: Citizen Suit Against FMD Crisis 2010 by KARA Citizen Suit to Save Our Earth and Life November 2012 Green Party Korea, Korea Animal Rights Advocates (In the alphabetical order) 1. …
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80% of Koreans Favor Adoption of Abandoned Animals
Translation of Korean news: http://news.sbs.co.kr/section_news/news_read.jsp?news_id=N1001448064 A survey result just released indicates a big increase in opinion that favors adoption of abandoned animals as pets. Based on a survey conducted last September 10-23 targeting 2,000 adult men and women by Korea Socio-economic Research Center commissioned by …
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Controversy over the maintenance of dog meat vendors at Moran market in Seongnam-city (The largest dog meat market in the country). Seven interdepartmental joint enforcement….Vendors backlash ‘threat to their livelihoods’.
Translation of news :http://media.daum.net/politics/administration/newsview?newsid=20120822102611827 Vendors are up in arms as Seongnam-city in Gyeonggido-province launches a broad-scale maintenance of dog meat vendors at Moran Market. Since July 5, Seongnam-city began an investigation of dog slaughter and sales conditions at the Moran Market area (Joongwon-gu, Seongnam-dong) and …
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KARA released a research report for the dog meat industry fact finding and prohibition measures
KARA’s Report-Full Version in Korean KARA’s Report-Summary Version in Korean Here are some information from the report: Status of Dog Breeds Utilized in Dog Meat Industry Based on the S. Korea’s Ministry of Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries’ statistical yearbook, in 2011, 1.7 million dogs …
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Pet adoption center plans to open early next month in Seoul
Translation of News: http://news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2012/08/16/2012081600001.html?Dep0=twitter Pet adoption center plans to open early next month. Through a reorganization initiative, Seoul Metropolitan government is preparing to change the animal related words being used and to build an animal protection shelter. This follows their recent creation of Animal Welfare …
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Notorious Moran market in limbo
Translation of KBS News: http://news.kbs.co.kr/society/2012/03/18/2451655.html Seongnam-city (Gyeonggido-province)’s Moran market, the nation’s largest 5 day traditional outdoor markets, is on the crisis of being disappearing. Merchants who has been conducting business in this market for close to 50 years are having hard time not able to …
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