ARAN Activists Condemn Korean Cat and Dog Torture

dublin | animal rights | event notice Wednesday June 22, 2005 19:44 by John Carmody - Animal Rights Action Network (ARAN) arancampaigns at eircom dot net ARAN, Po Box 722, Kildare, Ireland 087-6275579

Members of ARAN Barking Mad Outside South Korean Embassy

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Dublin — Members of Animal Rights Action Network (ARAN) will join activists from Argentina to Tanzania to “beg” the Korean Government to enforce laws prohibiting the beating, hanging, burning, electrocution, and boiling alive of dogs and cats for consumption.

Date: Friday, July 15
Time: 1pm – 2pm
Place: Korean Embassy - 15 Clyde Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4, Ireland.

South Korea’s laws prohibiting the consumption of dogs and cats have been routinely ignored and disregarded by law enforcement. Korea’s Ministry for the Office of Government Policy Coordination announced in January that it was to begin inspecting dog meat for sanitation, thus giving dog meat its seal of approval. The Government promised that it was backing away from this deplorable plan in February after being inundated with thousands of letters, phone calls, and e-mails from concerned citizens and animal protectionists around the world. However, the Government is once again leaning toward supporting the Ministry’s back door efforts to legalize dog meat.

Before dogs are killed for meat, they are often strung up by their legs and beaten. Dog butchers extol the virtues of their product, linking the adrenaline rush dogs experience as they are bludgeoned to death to enhanced male virility. Cats fare no better—viewed as pest animals, they are boiled alive so their “juices” can be extracted for supposed health tonics which butchers claim can be used to treat rheumatism.

“It’s inconceivable that as the rest of the world is strengthening animal protection laws, the Korean Government is allowing ‘man’s best friends’ to be boiled alive, beaten, butchered, and eaten under its knowing watch,” says ARAN Founder John Carmody.

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