South Korea is about to legalize eating dog meat.  Please write to S. Korean ministers (email and addresses below) and please ask everyone you know to write - and keep writing!!  This is a travesty that cannot be allowed in any civilized nation.

A South Korean friend supplied the following.  Please read, and please help.  Otherwise, dogs just like ours will be slaughtered for food.  And sometime, rescue dogs and puppy mill dogs are bought and exported for sale as meat in Korea.  Here is information:

The Office for Government Policy Coordination in Korea plans to legalize the sale of dog meat by setting standards for hygienic slaughter and processing.  The Ministry recently completed a report on "the hygienic control of dog meat," and is about to open an internal debate.  Under current Korean law, dogs cannot be sold as food, but the law is not enforced.  If the Ministry's plans for hygienic control succeed, it will effectively legalize the dog meat market.  We must ensure that the Government creates an enforceable law to ban dog meat, not legalize it.

Information at www.Idause.org and www.Koreananimals.or.kr

Suggested letter:

Dear Ambassador and Minister,

I am shocked and appalled to learn that the Ministry of the Office for Government Policy Coordination is considering a plan to hygienically control and thus legalize dog meat.

If the sanitary and envirnmental problems associated with the consumption of dog meat are so dire as to require governmental concern, efforts should be directed at banning dog meat; not legalizing it.

I such law passes it would make Korea the first and only country in the entire world to explicitly legitimize dog meat, legally sanctioning dog slaughter for human consumption.  Taiwan, Thailand and the Phillippines have all banned dog-meat.  In fact, Taiwan recently strengthened its law banning the killing and selling of dogs as food. 

If this law passes, I and many other Americans will boycott Korean products and businesses.

I respectfully request that you put aside any lan to legalize the sale of dog meat and create an enforceable law to ban the practice.  Please inform me of your decision.

Sincerely,

[Your Name]

Send to:

Roh Moo-Hyun
Blue House
1 Sejong-Ro, Jongno-Gu
Seoul, South Korea 110-050
email: President@...

Prime Minister Goh-Kun
Tel: 822 737 0094
Fax: 822 737 0109
email: Minister@...