Guest guest Posted January 28, 2002 Report Share Posted January 28, 2002 This weekend the rally against dog meat in Daehang-no in Seoul brought together more than 100 people from various groups, including anti-vivisection and vegetarian groups. Every big media station in Korea was there as well as a Japanese tv station. The rally was an excellent chance for anti-dog and cat meat activists in Korea to get together to pressure the government to back away from it's plans to legalize dog meat. Afterwards a vegetarian meal was served and discussion had between participants in the rally. Remarkably, though, after the huge media spectacle that was presented, and ample amounts of Korean media there to cover it, this remarkable event didn't merit even a blurb on Korean tv or a line in the newspapers. Either what is happening is official government censorship or else is a kind of implicit censorship that the media imposes on itself if something happens that is inconsistent with the official public line. Whatever it is, the issue could very easily slip soon away from simply " foreigners vs Koreans " to " animal activists vs dog meat eaters " . No matter how the government tries to contain it, perhaps this weekend will occation a new strengthening of the fight against dog and cat eating in Korea and a democratization of the problem of animal abuse generally in this country. Great stuff seeking new owners in Auctions! http://auctions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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