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12/9/08: Korea Set To Legalize Dog/Cat Consumption

FOR A FORMATTED LETTER (WORD DOC), EMAIL: kinshipcircle@accessus.net
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The Ministry of Environment plans to categorize dogs as livestock to
regulate the sanitation practices of large-scale dog breeders. There are
about 720,000 dog farms, raising some 2.3 million dogs as of Dec. 2005.

http://www.koreatim es.co.kr/ www/news/ nation/2008/ 08/117_29358. html

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FULL CONTACT INFORMATION. Email block & sample letter follow.
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Korean President Mr. Lee Myung-bak
1 Cheongwadae- ro; Jongno-gu, Seoul, Korea
email: webmaster@president.go.kr,

foreign@president.go.kr

Prime Minister Mr. Han Seung-soo
Central Government Complex, 55 Sejong-no, Jongno-gu
Seoul, Korea 110-760
email: webmaster@pmo.go.kr,

M_opm@opm.go.kr,  m-opm@opm.go.kr

Ministry of Culture, Sports And Tourism Republic of Korea
110-703, 42,Sejongno, Jongno-gu; Seoul, Korea
email: help@mct.go. kr, webmaster@www. mct.go.kr
web mail: http://www.mct. go.kr/english/ contactus/ contactus. jsp

Ministry of Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
Government Complex Gwacheon, Jungang-dong 1
Gwacheon, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
email: minister@maf.go.kr,  wmaster@mifaff.go.kr, afec@assembly.go.kr

Ministry of Environment
Government Complex Gwacheon 1 Joongang-dong
Gwacheon-si, Gyeonggi-do, 427-729 Korea
email: minister@me.go.kr

Supreme Public Prosecutor’s Office
1730-1 Seocho3-dong, Seocho-gu; Seoul, South Korea 137-730
email: webmaster@sppo.go.kr,  spoweb@sppo.go.kr   

Seoul Regional Food Surveillance Division
email: fsb1234@kfda.go.kr

 Ministry for Health, Welfare and Family Affairs
75 Yulgong-ro, Jongno-gu; Seoul, Korea 110-793
email: wmaster@mohw.go.kr

Korea Food And Drug Administration
194 Tongilro, Eunpyeong-gu; Seoul, 122-704, Republic of Korea
email: leeys@kfda.go.kr,  m_kfda@kfda.go.kr

Mayor of Seoul Mr. Oh Se-hoon
Deoksugung-gil 15, Jung-gu; Seoul 100-110, Republic of Korea
email: ohsehoon@seoul.go.kr, 

english@www.metro.seoul.kr

US KOREAN EMBASSY
His Excellency Mr. Lee Tae-sik
Embassy of the Republic of Korea in the USA
2450 Massachusetts Avenue N.W.; Washington DC 20008
email: information_ usa@mofat.go.kr,  consular_usa@mofat.go.kr
email: koreanembinuk@mofat.go.krhttp://www.embassyw orld.com/ embassy/korea1. htm
http://embassyinfor mation.com/

EMAIL BLOCK: All emails found for this alert
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*SOME OF THESE EMAILS WILL BOUNCE. Kinship Circle cannot guarantee validity of email addresses. Foreign governments may especially change or disable their emails. That is why we’ve researched various sources to give you as many addresses as we could find.

webmaster@president.go.kr, foreign@president.go.kr, webmaster@pmo.go.kr,
M_opm@opm.go.kr, m-opm@opm.go.kr

UK KOREAN EMBASSY
His Excellency Mr. Chun Yung-woo
South Korean Embassy in the UK
60 Buckingham Gate; London, SW1E 6AJ

TO FIND KOREAN EMBASSIES IN OTHER COUNTRIES, TRY:

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help@mct.go.kr, webmaster@www.mct.go.kr,
minister@maf.go.kr, wmaster@mifaff.go.kr, afec@assembly.go.kr,
minister@me.go.kr, wmaster@mohw.go.kr, webmaster@sppo.go.kr,
spoweb@sppo.go.kr, leeys@kfda.go.kr,

m_kfda@kfda.go.kr, fsb1234@kfda.go.kr,
ohsehoon@seoul.go.kr, english@www.metro.seoul.kr,
information_ usa@mofat.go.kr,

consular_usa@mofat.go.kr,
koreanembinuk@mofat.go.kr

SAMPLE LETTER —  This letter is prepared to inform you about the issue.
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Honorable Officials of the Republic of Korea:This draft law undoes humane policies established in 1991. In fact, it allows any animal abuser to bypass punishment by simply claiming the abused dog or cat was intended for meat or medicine. Thailand and the Philippines have banned dog meat. Most Koreans do not consume dogs and cats. Why does Korea continue to sacrifice its integrity and global image to appease a minority interest?

THE HYPOCRISY OF SAVING DOGS WHILE EATING PIGS?
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Kinship Circle recognizes that some feel it’s hypocritical to protest the consumptive use of dogs and cats while other sentient creatures live in wretched conditions and die horribly under the knife.

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I respectfully ask the Korean government to not amend the Animal Protection Law of 1991 to classify some dog breeds as livestock and others as companions.

The distinction between “pet animals” and food-source animals merely allows the consumptive use of certain dogs and cats. Those bred as family companions are protected, while other dogs and cats — if purposefully raised for food or medicine — are not.

This law turns a blind eye on the cruelty inherent in the dog/cat consumption trade: Prolonged beatings, dismemberment, hangings, live boiling, and more brutal “customs” thought to enhance flavor and potency.

Moreover, if Korea enacts this amendment, it becomes the only nation to openly permit the slaughter of dogs and cats for human ingestion. I urge Korean officials to cease all efforts to legalize this vile trade. Taiwan,

Please enforce animal protection laws that afford ALL dogs and cats immunity under “pet animals.” Please explicitly outlaw the killing of any of these animals for food or medicine.

Thank you,

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Please note that we regularly posts action campaigns on animals typically farmed for food, with an entire section of our Letter Library devoted to animal agriculture:
http://www.kinshipc ircle.org/ letter_library/ letters_by_ category. asp?CategoryID= 5We have addressed the “hypocrisy” in an article that ran as The Animals Voice cover story:

 One Country’s Companion Is Another’s Cuisine
http://www.kinshipc ircle.org/ columns_articles /companion_ cuisine.htmlWe do not support the consumptive use of ANY animal, including dogs, cats, horses, chickens, pigs, cows, fishes, turkeys, ducks, etc.

SOURCE OF INFORMATION / REFERENCE LINKS
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Dog Farms Under Sanitation Rules
   http://www.koreatim es.co.kr/ www/news/ nation/2008/ 08/117_29358. html
South Korea Legislation Amendment
   http://www.animalsa sia.org/index. php?UID=2BZNVGUC FJ76
Ban Legalisation of Dogmeat Trade in South Korea
   http://www.gopetiti on.com/petitions /stop-the- torture-to- dogs-and- cats-in-south- korea.html
Korea Animal Protection Society
   http://www.koreanan imals.or. kr/english/
DogAid Australia
   http://www.dogaid. freeservers. com/
It’s Their Destiny
   http://itstheirdest iny.2kat. net/helppage. html

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