The Prime Minister of the Netherlands: Please tell your Partnership Country, South Korea, that you oppose the torture and consumption of dogs and cats.

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3 min readJan 2, 2024

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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.

Reuters reported on December 13, 2023, that “The Netherlands and South Korea have signed an agreement to cooperate on nuclear power, including a feasibility study by Korea Hydro (KRHYDR.UL) for the construction of a new nuclear plant in the Netherlands…The Dutch government plans to build one new nuclear plant by 2035 and is considering another…South Korea’s industry ministry said it had signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Dutch Economic Affairs ministry to support the new plant order. Dutch computer chip tool maker ASML (ASML.AS) said it would build a new billion won ($758 million) research and development facility in Korea together with Samsung Electronics (005930.KS), one of its biggest customers.” Click HERE to learn more.

Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte holds a press conference with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol during his visit to the Netherlands following an invitation from King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands in Amsterdam, Netherlands, December 13, 2023. REUTERS.

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.

Video: South Korea’s shocking cruelty of dog meat industry. Coexistence of Animal Rights on Earth (CARE).
Video: Dogs who suffered their entire lives are electric tortured and killed in cages — South Korea’s horrific dog meat industry. jtbc News. [추적보도 훅] 철창 갇힌 채 감전사…’먹히기 위해’ 죽어가는 개들 / JTBC 뉴스룸

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.

Photo: The Korea Observer. Documentary: The Dog Meat Professionals: South Korea.

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