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VIDEO - Korean Woman Says No to Dog Meat and Adopts Puppy

Korean Woman Says No to Dog Meat and Adopts Puppy

 

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIJugS6Mv0s

 

Dog meat trade

For our Humane Society International staff rescuers, who worked tirelessly to spare them a gruesome fate, this is the latest action in a campaign to rid South Korea of thousands of dog farms and end the practice of putting dogs on the butcher’s block. We intend to bring a relentless focus to this campaign.

South Korea is the only country in the world where dogs are raised for their meat, and HSI staff members have been reaching out to Korean dog meat farmers to assist in transitioning their farms to other pursuits, like crop growing, permanently. With the 2018 Winter Olympics scheduled for Pyeongchang, South Korea, and a growing distaste of the trade both within and outside the country, we see a good opportunity for focused attention on the dog meat trade. Our primary strategic goal is to get the South Korean government – a democratic government with a remarkable record of economic and social progress — on board with assisting farmers to make the change into alternative, more humane trades.

HSI’s work to end the dog meat trade in other parts of the world also continues with equal determination. We joined the Asia Canine Protection Alliance (ACPA) nearly two years ago to combat the dog meat trade in Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, and Laos. The campaign has been successful and we managed to get in place a five-year ban on the cross-border trade of dogs for meat between all countries.

In China, HSI is guiding and supporting numerous local animal welfare organizations in addressing the dog meat trade there. Since August 2014, over 8,000 dogs have been rescued from large transport vehicles carrying hundreds of captured dogs in crowded cages to their deaths at various slaughterhouses in the country. HSI is also assisting with the language and submission of the first animal welfare law in China.

In South Korea, there is a tendency to keep only purebred dogs as pets and there is little interest in adopting “meat” dogs. We are focusing on a public awareness campaign to close the gap in perception between a “pet dog” and a “meat dog” – something that is already happening with the increase in the pet industry throughout Asia. We are hopeful that given the growing dislike of the dog meat trade in South Korea, and the uncovering of the cruelty and unsanitary nature of this industry, more and more Koreans will soon start to speak out for an end to this practice

We’ll be pushing for that kind of lasting change, and in the short run, working to save every dog we can.

 

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Uploaded on May 2, 2015