The President of Italy, Honorable Sergio Mattarella: Please tell your Partnership Country, South Korea, that you oppose the torture and consumption of dogs and cats.
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If you want to help fight the grisly South Korean dog and cat meat trade and make a difference in South Korea, here are a few quick actions you can take that could save millions of dogs and cats each year.
The Korea JoongAng Daily reported on November 8, 2023, that “President Yoon Suk Yeol and Italian President Sergio Mattarella agreed to strengthen cooperation between the two countries in fields including advanced technologies, artificial intelligence, hydrogen and space Wednesday… Yoon and Mattarella sat for bilateral talks, attended a memorandum of understanding (MOU) signing ceremony, and took part in a joint press briefing…. Korea’s Institute for Basic Science and Italy’s National Institute of Nuclear Physics also signed an MOU to expand joint research in basic science.”
In South Korea, there are numerous dog farms, slaughterhouses, markets, and restaurants where the dogs, who have been tortured their entire lives, end up being slaughtered in the most inhumane ways, such as by electrocution, hanging, or beating, and then thrown into boiling water — sometimes while they are still alive. In many places, dogs are being killed in full view of other terrified, caged dogs; and this takes place in broad daylight. In addition, many abandoned and stolen former pets end up in this industry and are subject to the same cruelty.
A Search Engine reveals the sickening scale of South Korea’s dog meat demand.
Two searches on Naver (the most popular search engine in Korea) — one was for so-called “Health Centers,” which commonly sell dog elixirs and cat elixirs (also known as dog soju and cat soju), and the second one was for “dog meat restaurants” — resulted in thousands of Health Centers and dog meat restaurants in South Korea.
Even if half of these ‘Health’ Centers and restaurants serve dog and cat ‘ingredients’ in one form or another, imagine how many dog/cat slaughterhouses must be in South Korea to supply these outlets.
There are laws in South Korea against selling dogs and cats for consumption, yet these laws are blatantly ignored.
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“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” -Mahatma Gandhi
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