Call for Action: Is the food waste recycling business just another ‘license to kill’ in the filthy, dirty dog meat trade?
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The Korea Animal Rights Advocates (KARA) has exposed another shameful side to the dog meat trade — and more Government failures. Click HERE to learn more.
Not only does the South Korean Government neglect to enforce their animal welfare laws by continuing to allow the appalling and blatantly cruel dog meat trade, but Government Departments, such as the Ministry of Environment, Ministry of Food and Drug Safety and the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, fail to properly monitor the food waste disposal business, being carried out as a lucrative side-line to dog meat production — and thereby ensuring continuation of these trades.
Food waste is so named as it is just that — waste: filthy slops, which, left untreated, can harbor salmonella and other contaminants, able to cause health hazards on epidemic scale. Such waste must be recycled or disposed of responsibly, yet dog-meat farmers were easily granted licenses to recycle food waste as a business, without any proper checks being made by Government Departments to ensure that these ‘businesses’ were capable (or willing) to recycle this waste in an acceptable and legal way; their disposal method: feed it untreated to their dogs, or sell it on to other meat-producing farmers.
The Korean Government must step up and take responsibility, the Moon Jae-In Administration must keep its promise to survey the dog meat farms throughout the country, and act on illegal practices — it must bring about change.
Call for Action
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Ministry of Environment
Sejong Government Complex, 11 Doum 6-ro, Sejong
Postal Code 30103
South Korea
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Postal Code 30110
South Korea
Ministry of Food and Drug Safety
187 Osongsaengmyeong 2-ro, Osong-eup, Heungdeok-gu, Cheongju, Chungcheongbuk-do
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President Moon Jae-In
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Ministry of Environment
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Subject: South Korea’s Dog Meat Trade (전국에 산재한 ‘쓰레기의 용광로’ 개농장과 폐기물관리 손놓은 환경부를 고발한다.)
To the Moon Jae-In Administration:
Untreated food waste being fed to animals destined for human consumption is a health hazard in itself, and a possible cause of such outbreaks as Avian Influenza. This is not just a local, but a global concern. Source: [보도자료] 전국에 산재한 ‘쓰레기의 용광로’ 개농장과 폐기물관리 손놓은 환경부를 고발한다. https://www.ekara.org/activity/against/read/8859
The Korean Government has granted ‘registration’ to dog-meat farmers allowing them to operate as food waste disposal businesses, but these business owners are either incapable of, or unwilling to dispose of such waste in a responsible or legal way. Instead they are feeding it, untreated, to their own animals, or selling it on to other meat-producing businesses.
While we understand that your Government has now addressed the situation with regards to the poultry industry, your Government Departments, such as the Ministry of Environment, Ministry of Food and Drug Safety, and the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, fail to properly monitor the activities of the dog-meat farmers.
An online petition calling for your action in ending the horrendous South Korean dog and cat meat cruelty is in progress: https://www.change.org/p/president-moon-jae-in-s-korean-government-stop-allowing-the-dog-meat-industry-to-use-their-dogs-as-garbage-cans Please, step up and take responsibility, the Moon Jae-In Administration must keep its promise to survey the dog meat farms throughout your country, and act on illegal practices — it must bring about change.
Sincerely,
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.@moonriver365 .@mrcho55 .@MOFAkr_eng .@mafrakorea .@TheMFDS .@mohwpr .@mevpr STOP allowing dog meat industry to use dogs as garbage cans! https://koreandogs.org/kara-ministry-environment/ 전국에 산재한 ‘쓰레기의 용광로’ 개농장과 폐기물관리 손놓은 환경부를 고발한다. https://www.ekara.org/activity/against/read/8859
Photo: Korea Animal Rights Advocates (KARA).
