Help us stop the dog meat trade in South Korea
WSPA and the Korean Animal Welfare Association (KAWA) are working together to bring an end to the dog meat industry in South Korea. But we can’t do it without your help.
Every year millions of dogs are raised and killed for meat in South Korea. KAWA has conducted undercover investigations of dog meat farms and slaughterhouses in South Korea, and what they found was shocking.
On farms the dogs are kept in squalid conditions, where they are crammed into tiny cages, exposed to all weather and sometimes even fed the ground-up remains of dead puppies who have died through illness or mistreatment. At the end of their short traumatic lives they are transported to slaughterhouses, or the markets where dog meat is sold, to be killed. It is neither quick nor painless.
They may be strangled to death, which can take up to 20 minutes or, more commonly, electrocuted. As if the pain of the killing wasn’t enough, some dogs are beaten before they die as it is purported that the adrenaline of a frightened dog makes the meat taste better. Perhaps most upsetting of all, some dogs are still alive when their fur is removed.
WSPA and KAWA are committed to continuing our crucial work to end dog meat farming in Korea, and I hope you will join us in our fight. Your support today can:
* Help us to fund more undercover investigations of dog meat farms and market – it’s vital that we keep documenting the atrocities carried out by the dog meat industry so we can strengthen our case against it.
* Help use this evidence to fight a movement in South Korea that is calling for the legalization of the dog meat trade.
* Help raise awareness in South Korea of the cruelty involved in the dog meat trade as we promote better care for dogs and encourage people to see dogs as living, breathing animals who feel pain, and not as meat.
I know these descriptions are hard to read and these pictures are distressing. But I now hope that, like me, you are angry enough to do something about this horrendous industry. Please make a donation to help put an end to this and other forms of cruelty across the world.
Thank you for your gift, which will help WSPA to stop suffering and free animals from cruelty, including those featured in this appeal.
https://www.wspadonations.org/pages/3617_year_end_appeal_12_10_version_k.cfm
This is absolutely shocking! Dog meat? I am actually getting quite nauseous reading this. Witnessing this trade will turn most people into full-fledged vegetarians for sure! Has it gotten to the point of killing and eating ANYTHING transient? That is just one step away from humans and cannibalism.
This is clearly uncivilized behavior. Dogs are little people. They love you unconditionally and have fun-loving personalities. They are great for sharing your deepest and darkest secrets and make such great companions as they agree to accompany you everywhere without an argument. I even prefer them to people on many occasions. Now I have to go and look at old photos of my best pals Fred and Pepper who brought so much joy to my life! They would be horrified by this, may they rest in peace.
i cant cope with this truly….not only mans best friend being killed and eaten but the tremendous suffering and abuse that is inflicted beforehand.
people can say well we kill cows in Uk and sheep pigs etc true but i dont kill or eat any living creature nor do many people and this is a choiceeee not a need in these countries there are other foods like there is in uk to eat …its just a choice to cause huge suffering on such innocent creatures…this has to be stopped!
If you want to see how the U.S. treats animals for consumption, rent the documentary “Food, Inc.”. I guarantee that after watching this movie, you will never want to touch another piece of meat ever again! Also great for jump starting your diet so that you can look great in that Bikini!
Eating Dog meat, horse meat, any kind of meat is not shocking. What is shocking is the way they kill them. They are hung on giant hooks by the neck, alive. They are then skinned alive, often as ppl from open-air and street-side restaurants watch, as they have picked out the dog in the ajacent field that they are going to eat. They then watch it being skinned. They are excited because they think this makes the meat taste juicier and softer. Absolutely primitive.
Unfortunately, she is right. This is how dogs for human consumption are prepared in South Korea, and other countries. Horrible. Don’t think the US is any better, with the abuse that runs rampant on factory farms.
In response to your comments, in my opinion, eating horse meat and dog meat is just one step away from cannibalism! Where were you raised, Swaziland? How they are killed is the worst form of torture imaginable and there should be severe legal consequences for those actions!
dogs are used for help police,military, save life in the water and many other things
dog are not cow or pigs, did you understand the difference between cat dog or cow and pigs? is so hard for barbarians like you to see the difference? ehhh
asia is a third world country full of barbarians
chiken,cows and pigs are not beaten to death, but have a quick death
anyway dog are intelligent and are animal for companion
go back to school
we will make stop all asia to eat dogs and cats,
Someone needs to go to school in order to learn how to read and write. Your entry is hardly literate.