please say hello to the President of Korea

[Guest guest]

The current President of South Korea stated his

support for the legalisation of dog meat in the past.

It's one thing to say something and another to act on

it. However, as two weeks have passed since the world

wide demo for Korean dogs and cats, it seems to be a

good idea to say hello to the President to let him

know we haven't forgotten about and have no intention

of forgetting about dogs and cats in Korea.

 

Please send your protest email to

President Roh Moo-hyun

webmaster

(please send a copy of email to The Korea Chamber of

Commerce and Industry

04740

)

 

Below is a sample letter. Please sign with your name

and full address at the end of the letter if you are

going to use this.

 

Dear President Roh,

 

I am writing to protest the killing and torture of

dogs and cats in Korea and to request you to make

every effort to remove this horror from your country.

I cannot visit Korea or buy any goods made in Korea or

by Korean-owned companies because of South Korea's

total failure to enact and enforce strong legislation

banning the torture, killing, and consumption of

companion animals, specifically dogs and cats.

 

At present, every year countless dogs and cats die

horrible deaths at the hands of butchers who sell the

meat for human consumption. The cruelty involved in

killing these intelligent and beautiful animals is

beyond belief. Please make every effort to dispel the

health myth behind the consumption and torture of dogs

and cats. People are aware that eating and torturing

dogs and cats is not a longstanding tradition of

Korea. It is based on superstitious lies and

commercial greed.

 

The cruel treatment given to these animals is against

the Korea Animal Protection Law, and therefore is an

illegal act. Unfortunately your government has turned

blind eyes to such cruelty by not enforcing the law.

This has shown the world that the Korean government

does not care about the appalling cruelty inflicted

upon these animals and any animals for that matter.

The FBI report however says that animal abuse is

closely linked to violence against humans. Killing and

torturing animals that display love, loyalty, fear and

pain in such unmistakable manner is to encourage

people to disregard trust and bond and become

insensitive to suffering.

 

We were told, according to the Ministry of Health, the

human consumption of dogs and cats was illegal. Now we

learn that in 1994 the dog-meat lobby got the Ministry

of Health to secretly eliminate the portion of the

1984 Food Sanitation Law that classified dog meat as a

disgusting food, not fit for human consumption. This

reveals to the world the Korean government sides with

dog meat industry and has no intention of listening to

compassionate Koreans within your country.

 

I urge you to use make every effort to introduce new,

clearly-enforceable laws that will ban the consumption

of dogs and cats once and for all and enforce existing

laws that prohibit cruelty to animals. I also

understand some of your politicians would like to

introduce a new bill, which would include dogs, which

have earned their reputation as man's best friend, as

livestock production. I urge you to stop these

outrageous attempts now. If this kind of law is

passed in congress, Korea will bear a great burden of

shame, and would become the only country in the world

where dogs are legally processed as livestock.

 

The image of Korea will be damaged beyond redemption

and its caring people will also suffer the disgrace

and shame. Once dog meat is legalised in Korea, the

only image people will form about Korea is its people

eating dogs. This would be tragic because we know

that Korea has the capacity to be a progressive with

the help of the caring Koreans to whom your government

flatly refuses to listen to.

 

Dogs and cats are companion animals in many parts of

the world. The practice of killing dogs causes pain to

many animal lovers in your own country as well as

animal lovers abroad. You must be aware that many

people in Asia also look at the practice of eating

dogs in your country with horror and disgust. Please

do not allow Korea’s image equated with killing and

torturing dogs and cats by continuously arguing that

it is Korea’s tradition to eat dogs. Instead please

make genuine efforts to end the killing and torture of

these beautiful animals.

 

I will not buy Korean goods, support Korean business,

or visit Korea, until Koreans stop eating dogs and

cats, and until Koreans stop the brutal treatment of

these companion animals. I will tell everyone I know,

and ask that they tell everyone they know, until the

entire world is boycotting Korea, Korean products and

industries. I will seek out and inform Korean business

investors of the atrocity happening in Korea to dogs

and cats, and boycott any investor who continues to

support the businesses of Korea.

 

 

 

Sincerely,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Friends of dogs

http://www.friendsofdogs.net

Dogs brighten our life with their gift to love and bond. It is our turn to help

our dogs. Please help organisations who are fighting to get dogs out of food

chain.

 

http://www.koreananimals.org/

http://www.2kat.net/sirius/index.html

http://www.animalsasia.org/ http://www.linisgobyerno.org/special_projects.htm

 

 

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