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Is China Embracing a Ban on the Consumption of Dogs and Cats?

2010-02-06T23:38:00.000-08:00

Feb 6th, 2010
From Animals Asia Foundation
Published with permission

In recent months there has been much discussion with regards the content of the draft legislation. Animals Asia will be attending a conference in March 2010 to meet with the lawyers drafting this law and provide further input into its development.

The development of a draft animal protection law is a unique opportunity to develop legislation to provide (at the very least) basic protection for animals across China and one which Animals Asia wishes to embrace for the benefit of all animals across the country.

The Chinese and international media are currently highlighting the possibility of the law including a ban on the consumption of dogs and cats within China. The current draft legislation allows individual provinces to ban the slaughter of dogs and cats within their own jurisdiction.

After many years of campaigning for an end to this barbaric practice we are delighted that this issue is now being openly discussed within China.

As with many issues this debate is polarized. Many people in China feel that the government should not protect one species of animal over another species; others feel that people should be provided with greater protection before animals, and an increasingly large section of society support moves to ban acts of animal cruelty such as the eating of dogs and cats.

Through our Friends or Food programme our team in China has generated immense support for an end to the consumption of dogs and cats. We will continue to support such a ban and contribute to this debate through the media, by providing information with regards the inability of raising such large numbers of dogs and cats in a humane manner to support the demand, the health myths associated with dog and cat meat consumption, the health risks of consuming such diseased animals and the immense cruelty suffered in raising, transporting and slaughtering dogs and cats.

The development of animal protection legislation within China still has a long way to go and it may take many years before such legislation is accepted into Chinese law.

The debate is taking place within China and Animals Asia will continue to call for measures to provide protection for all animals as well as ban the immensely cruel practices such as farming bears for their bile and the killing and eating of dogs and cats for food.

For more comprehensive details on the development of this legislation please click here:
Animals Asia Foundation

For more comprehensive details about the consumption of dogs and cats in Asia, please listen to "Tails of Asia" at WFL Endangered Stream Live.

International Day of Action for Dogs and Cats in Korea

2009-07-06T13:40:00.000-07:00

Speak Up For The Dogs And Cats Of Korea

The International Day of Action for Dogs and Cats in Korea is July 14. In Defense of Animals (IDA) is again co-sponsoring this worldwide event to stop the terrible suffering these animals endure when raised and slaughtered for human consumption.

Events will be taking place all over the world.

Learn more

"Tails of Asia"

2009-03-06T22:32:00.000-08:00

"Tails of Asia"

WFL Endangered Stream Live takes a close look at the use of dogs and cats for food and fur. Expert panel of guests include Dena Jones/ US Programs Director for the WSPA, Jill Robinson/ Animals Asia and Bill Dyer/ IDA.

Visit the show and resource page to listen & learn more
http://wflendangeredstreamlive.org/tailsofasia.html

Dogs Classified as Livestock

2008-11-17T21:48:00.000-08:00

The Korean Government has turned turn a blind eye to their Animal Protection Law of 1991, and is allowing dogs and cats to be killed in horrific ways. Reports estimate that there are over 6000 restaurants in South Korea that have dog and cat on the menu. Over 2 million dogs and cats are killed inhumanely each year in Korea to satisfy the craving to eat them.

South Korea recently reclassified dogs as "livestock" to curb sanitation problems caused by illegal dog farming. Under the previous law it was illegal to butcher dogs and trade their meat for human consumption but that left no legal grounds to regulate dog meat in restaurants and no way to regulate those who bred dogs for consumption. Under a new law large scale "dog farmers" must build facilities to handle the disposal of dog excretion and report the same to authorities.

Dogs and cats bred as family companions are protected, but other dogs and cats that are purposefully raised for food or medicine are not protected at all. Apparently the only distinction is whether they are labeled a "pet animal" or a "food source".

Under the new law, the Protective Act of 1991 is unraveled and now allows any animal abuser to bypass punishment by simply claiming the abused dog or cat was intended for meat or medicine. It is a popular belief that prolonged beatings, dismemberment, hangings, live boiling, and other brutal customs enhance the flavor and potency of the "meat".

Please sign this petition to help fight against the consumption of dogs and cats.

Also please send a letter to Korean authorities and ask them to uphold and enforce their Animal Protection Laws and stop the consumption of dogs and cats.

webmaster@president.go.kr, foreign@president.go.kr, webmaster@pmo.go.kr,
M_opm@opm.go.kr, m-opm@opm.go.kr, help@mct.go.kr, webmaster@www.mct.go.kr,
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Mayor of Seoul Mr Oh Se-hoon
Email: ohsehoon@seoul.go.kr
Address: Euljiro1, Jung-gu, Seoul, 100-744, Korea

Korean President Mr Lee Myung-bak
Email: webmaster@president.go.kr
Address: 1 Cheongwadae-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul, Korea

If you would like to offer direct help on this issue, please contact the following animal welfare groups:

Korean Animal Protection Society
1593-19 Daemyung 10-dong
Nam-gu, Daegu City, South Korea
Tel: 82-53-622-3588 Fax: 82-53-656-3587
E-mail: kaps0127@hanafos.com
Website: http://www.koreananimals.net/ or http://www.koreananimals.or.kr/
Attn: Sunnan

Coexistence of Animal Rights on Earth (CARE)
Email: kyeowoolmom@hanmail.net
Website: http://www.fromcare.org
Attn: Ms Park So-Yeon, President

Korea Association for Animal Protection (KAAP)
Email: lwb22028@hanmail.net
Website: www.kaap.or.kr
Attn: Mr Lee Won-bok, President

Resources:
The Korea Times
Its their Destiny
Animals Asia
Korean Animals
Kinship Circle

Help Stop this Horrific Cruelty

2008-01-09T22:26:00.000-08:00

Cruelty is

inflicted upon animals on a daily basis. Many citizens have become conditioned to accept this behavior. People pick a dog & have it skinned while it's alive or semi conscious, then they watch as a blow torch burns the outside with it to seal the meat.

Cat selection is done with a pole with wire on the end, the noose is put around the neck and the cat dragged out kicking and crying.

These animals spend hours and days lying jam packed in tiny cages on top of one another without food or water, watching other cats and dogs being tortured and killed in front of them; the smell of fear, pain and death constantly in their nostrils.

Rabbit below - skinned alive. It still holds its head up and waits for death; a pot of boiling water, as if skinning alive was not enough.