Eating dogs in just plain wrong

Every year over 3 million dogs and cats in South Korea are slaughtered by electrocution, hanging, boiling and being skinned alive. Prior to being killed they are caged and transported in crude, unsanitary and disgusting conditions. The pictures are really disturbing and I wouldn't want them here, but it is important people see what these unevolved scum are doing to sensitive, intelligent creatures.

In South Korea many people believe that if you torture a dog or cat before its death the rise in its adrenaline makes the "meat" taste better and that the "meat" is an aphrodisiac. Cats are often beaten over the head, thrown into a bag which is then pounded on the floor, and then thrown into boiling water (often still alive) to make a stew called Goyangi soju, which is mistakenly thought to cure rheumatism and joint problems. This is how backward this country is despite its embracing of new technology. Cearly they have a long way to go to be considered a civilised nation.

Dog eaters are growing in Korea. Pro dog meat politicians like Kim Hong Shin have many young followers. Koreans just view this as a cultural difference between the east and the west. Korea also has an animal protection law, but only as a front to pacify the internationally community.

Here's a site with details of the Korean politicians who are trying to make this vile trade legal. http://www.admh.org/data/evils.htm

YOU CAN DO SOMETHING

Addresses to let them know what you think:

President Kim, Dae-Jung
Blue House
1 Sejong-Ro, Jongno-gu

Seoul, South Korea 110-050
Webmaster@cwd.go.kr

Korean Tourist Bureau
EMAIL: kntotic@www.knto.or.kr

Prime Minister Lee, Han-Dong
77-6 Sejong-Ro, Jongno-gu
Seoul, South Korea 110-050
EMAIL: m_opm@opm.go.kr (opm.go.kr)

Minister Choi, Sun-Jung
The Ministry of Health and Welfare
1 Joongang-dong
Kwanchun City, Kyoungki-do
South Korea 427-760
EMAIL: wmaster@mohw.go.kr (mohw.go.kr)

Minister Kim, Dong-Tae
The Ministry of Agriculture
1 Joongang-dong
Kwanchun City, Kyoungki-do
South Korea 427-760
EMAIL: minister@maf.go.kr (maf.go.kr )

Mr. Yang, Kyu-Hwan
Director Korean Food and Drug Administration
5 Nokbun-dong, Unpyoung-gu
Seoul, South Korea 122-704
EMAIL: kh1yang@kfda.go.kr (kfda.go.kr)

Governor Yu, Kun-Man
Governor of Jeju Province
312-1, Yeon-dong, Jeju-si, Jeju-do 690-700
TEL. 82-64-710-2362,
EMAIL: wookm@provin.jeju.kr (provin.jeju.kr)

Contributor's Note

I should add that the information for this came from a Korean friend on Blog catalog who has a website campaigning against the eating of dogs in Korea [which is really upsetting, why I didn't give a link]. I accept all cultures have different food, my point is that dogs, being a top predator species, are much more intelligent and therefore emotionally complex than those species which evolved as prey animals, the grazers such as cattle and sheep. When you have to eat several belly-fulls of grass a day to stay alive, there's no need for a complex brain. Whereas to hunt and catch takes planning, intelligence and co-operation. Ergo, the dog is highly evolved, complex, emotionally mature and capable of more suffering as a result. If we don't accept this, we don't accept that humans are more capable of suffering than ants.
As I love and respect dogs, I find it enormously distressing to hear of them suffering, thus the article may appear to some highly emotional. Nothing to what I'd be if I ever witnessed such cruelty.