While documenting a dog farm in Masuk, South

Korea, the IDA team spotted three dogs of smallish

size and one a little bigger and decided to rescue
them from this sordid and ghastly landscape. The
farmer roughly, almost violently, grabbed each one
and dropped them into a wheelbarrow. After taking
the four dogs to a nearby shelter in Masuk, the team
noticed that the bigger dog, who was christened
Yuna, had a very large scar on the back of her neck.
The farmer had told us earlier that he moved her
into the cage with the smaller dogs, because a larger
dog in another cage had bitten her. We later learned
that she would have been a bargain sale as damaged
goods. We also discovered during a vet visit that
it was much more likely she was badly scorched
during an attempt to burn her alive. Yuna is now
with a rescue group in Las Vegas, joyously running
around with her new canine mates. Biko (now Milo)
and Jenny have been adopted. Mimi is being fostered.
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LEFT TO RIGHT:
JENNY, MIMI BEHIND
HER, BIKO, AND YUNA.
Every cat is a story.
Demonized and
doomed, cats are
tortured and murdered
in the darkest of places,
far removed from public
view. Many have their
legs broken so they cant
escape.
The $2 billion dollar-a-year South Korean dog and
cat meat industry slaughters approximately two and
a half million dogs a year for meat or gaesoju, a dog
wine or broth, and thousands of cats for so-called
health tonics or goyangyeesoju, and soup.
Dogs are killed with high-voltage electrocution,
which takes anywhere from thirty seconds to three
minutes, hanged, and even beaten to death, because
of the prevailing myth that the greater the suffering
the more tender and tastier the meat, and that the
mythical health properties are enhanced. Cats are
often bludgeoned and thrown into boiling water while
still alive.
Dogs are most often killed in front of other dogs.
At the farms, dogs are fed germ-infested, rotting,
and fermented human leftovers, a health risk to
both the dogs and those who eat them. According
to a South Korean vet, These dogs are not fed
a standard diet appropriate for dogs. Therefore,
poisonous substances from these dogs can be
contagious to humans. And when these chemicals
accumulate in our body, it can cause very serious
health problems. Dog meat that is contaminated
with germs such as Salmonella is not safe even
when you boil or steam it because the germ can
survive and cause diseases to humans.
In open-air markets, dogs are held in horribly
overcrowded pens, sometimes next to the carcasses
of their slaughtered cage mates.
Any dog can end up in the meat trade, including
animal companions, dispelling the myth that there are
two types of dogs: edible or meat dogs and animal
companions. As a former dog trader says, Pet dogs
are cheaper because they are sold per dog and not
by the pound. When you butcher them you cant tell
whether they are pet dogs or meat dogs.
An estimated 20,000 restaurants serve dog meat soup
or boshintang. Considered a delicacy, only a small
percentage of South Koreans eat dog meat regularly.
That still accounts for over 100,000 tons of dog meat
annually. Individual animals. Killed one at a time.
There are no laws or regulations on how to safely
or humanely slaughter dogs for food. The breeding
of dogs for consumption is legal, but the processing
of them for food is not. In short, dog meat remains
technically illegal but sanctioned by the South Korean
government.
Every dog is a story. And in South Korea, we know
the endings for millions of dogs who are subjected
to the most unimaginable agony until their last
breath, spending their lives at grim and squalid
dog meat farmsthe very bowels of existence
with their rotten smell of human injustice and
cruelty. ey come to sorrow in these hellish places,
imprisoned in lthy and desolate cages, where the
puppies will soon be separated from their mothers,
all awaiting their fate. e accumulation of so much
grief, so many lives snued out, extinguished, day
aer day, year aer year, for food. Everyday cruelties
perpetrated casually and without remorse.
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[ENGLISH] Why is it acceptable to eat cows, pigs,
and chickens, but not dogs?
A: Currently, cows, pigs, and chickens are being
raised in factory farms, which thwart every natural
instinct, causing them unbearable physical and
emotional stress. We should therefore not increase
the number of animals subjected to such punishingly
cruel treatment. The factory farm system also causes
grave problems for the environment and is the root
cause of such illnesses as foot-and-mouth disease,
avian u, and BSE. Reducing meat consumption is
already a signicant trend.

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