Fw: Korean Animal Protection Society asks for letters of protest to be sent to Korean Ministry of Health and Welfare

[Guest guest]

Dear KAPS members and animal lovers

 

You may have heard The National Dog Meat Restaurants Association's

plan to provide foreign visitors with various sample dishes of dog

meat during the World Cup. Their shameless dog meat tasting campaign

degrades Korea and Korean people and many of you feel mortified and

angry at these people who want to continue distorting Korean culture

and present dog meat as acceptable for their commercial gain.

However, please do not fight these people direct. Do not waste your

time arguing with them. The fault lies mainly with the Ministry of

Health and Welfare and Korea Food & Drug Administration. We must

fight the root of the problem and therefore concentrate our protest

on the government departments which had the power and obligation to

abolish dog meat but chose not to do so.

 

In 1984, the Ministry of Health and Welfare prescribed dog meat and

dog soup as disgusting foods. The Food Sanitation Law bans the

manufacturing and selling of dog meat. The law states that restaurant

owners who sell dog meat should lose their business license if they

are caught the third time. Despite this, the Ministry of Health and

Welfare has not attempted to enforce the Law, allowing dog meat

restaurants to flourish. Furthermore, they have licensed new dog meat

restaurants provided that dog meat is called other than by Bosintang.

This is clearly a case of gross negligence and we must respond by

sending strong protest letters and faxes to the Ministry of Health

and Welfare and Korea Food & Drug Administration. If you use the

Internet, please make best use of it for the protest.

 

Please try your best in criticizing the relevant government

departments. It is not the obligation of the Ministry of Agriculture

and Fisheries to enforce a law regulating food. So for now let's make

sure that the Ministry of Health and Welfare as well as Korea Food &

Drug Administration will be flooded with criticism and protests that

they deserve.

 

Minister Lee, Tae-Bok

The Ministry of Health and Welfare

1 Joongang-dong

Kwanchun City, Kyoungki-do

South Korea 427-760

(Ask to crack down and close down dog meat restaurants.)

use Fax: 02-503-7551 or individual letter to the above address.

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