AR-News: on-line today: Eating Dogs & Cats in Korea
Mary Finelli
hello_itz_me at hotmail.com
Mon Jan 26 09:38:54 EST 2004
On-line today at noon (EST, 5 p.m. Greenwich) http://www.GoVeganTexas.org or
http://www.kpft.org
>From Janice Blue, Go Vegan Texas!:
EATING DOGS AND CATS IN KOREA:
Attempts to end the illegal dog and cat meat trade
Go Vegan Texas!
Today at 11am (CST)
90.1 FM-Houston and 89.5 FM-Galveston
Guests:
International Aid for Korean Animals (IAKA)
Kyenan Kum, IAKA founder
Jeremy Hyde, IAKA Staff
"Koreans have long regarded dog meat as a health food, particularly in
improving men's virility. According to official figures, there are 6,484
stores dealing in dog meat across the country. They sell 25 tons of the meat
per day and 8,428 tons per year. Another 93,600 tons of dog meat is used
each year to produce a medical tonic called "kaesoju."
--- The Korean Herald Daily News
October 27, 1998
"The so-called 'Korean cultural tradition' is a myth invented to promote a
lucrative trade that annually slaughters over 2 million dogs and cats. How
can Korea's dog and cat meat advocates cry racism, or 'lack of cultural
understanding' if Koreans themselves are leading the opposition?"
---- sisters Sunnan and Kyenan Kum,
co-founders
International Aid for Korean
Animals (IAKA) and
Korea Animal Protection Society
(KAPS)
shelter in Taegu, South Korea
"Dog and cat eating is not now, nor has it ever been a traditional Korean
food. In fact, never in the history of meat production have humans ever kept
carnivorous animals as livestock. In every corner of the world, "food"
animals have traditionally been herbivores. The relatively-recent phenomenon
of farming/selling dogs and cats for food in Korea is nothing more than
exploitation of an easy-to-produce commodity nothing more, nothing less."
--- Kyenan Kum, founder IAKA
"From any perspective, including an objective assessment of how to sell meat
in a manner which is both profitable to the butcher and safe to the
consumer, it is not rational that Korea should continue to tolerate and
defend the Moran marketplace and others like it.The very definition of
insanity is the mindless repetition of irrational acts. And so, looking at
our notes and 92 photos of the Moran marketplace, I ask, is Korea mentally
ill?
--- Merritt Clifton, Editor, Animal
People
from an investigation of Korean
markets (2001)
Dog meat is the fourth most frequently consumed meat by Koreans following
pork at 700,000 tons, beef at 360,000 tons, and chicken at 280,000 tons per
year.
"But what if eating dogs and cats really was a Korean cultural tradition? Is
it a tradition worth holding on to, or isn¹t it time to shed eating
practices that generate such widespread horror and disgust in the
international community? asks today's guest on Go Vegan Texas!
Her name is Kyenan Kum. She is the founder of International Aid for Korean
Animals (IAKA) and will speak out against the Korean government's latest
attempt to legalize the already illegal dog and cat meat trade industry.
Kyenan will also speak of her 15 years organizing the world community to
try to save the dogs and cats of Korea with her sister, Sunnan Kum, founder
of the Korean Animal Protection Society (KAPS).
"Other "cultural traditions" throughout history, such as human slavery,
cannibalism, foot binding were abolished. "There is no place in modern
society for these atrocious acts, and the same applies to eating dogs and
cats, " Kyenan says.
Jeremy Hyde, who works with Kyenan in the Oakland office of IAKA will also
be our guest this morning and co hosting will be animal rights advocate
Marilyn Mouradjian, member of the Go Vegan Texas! Collective, Committee on
Animal Rights, who brought this issue to our attention and is leading a
local campaign to end the massacre of companion animals in S. Korea.
"Protecting Dogs and Cats in Korea from the Illegal Dog and Cat Meat Trade,"
our subject this week on Go Vegan Texas! today at 11am (CST) on KPFT-Houston
and Galveston.
Thank you,
Janice Blue
Host, Go Vegan Texas!
Now weekly every Monday at 11am (CST)
On Pacifica Radio
KPFT, 90.1 FM - Houston and 89.5 FM - Galveston
Listen Live on www.GovVeganTexas.org
(Just Wiggle the Cow's Ears)
Or later on www.KPFTarchive.org
Every animal you eat
Was running for her life.
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Contact Information on guests/subject:
Kyenan Kum and Jeremy Hyde
International Aid for Korean Animals
Korea Animal Protection Society
P.O. Box 20600, Oakland, 94620-0600, USA
www.koreananimals.org <http://www.koreananimals.org>
iaka at koreananimals.org
(Tel.) 510-271-6795
(Fax) 510-451-0643
Brenda Shoss, Kinship Circle
for sample letters to Korean government with
source of information from IAKA and KAPS
info at kinshipcircle.org
SAMPLE LETTER FROM KINSHIP CIRCLE
1/7/03--Korean Officials Set To Legalize Dog/Cat Meat
http://www.kinshipcircle.org
1 letter
***Please send protest letters via email and regular mail. Korean officials
are known to disable email addresses during a protest. If your email to the
Minister of Agriculture bounces, please send a letter through the mail
instead. (President Roh Moo-Hyun does not have an email address.)
AN 80c STAMP IS REQUIRED FOR LETTERS MAILED FROM THE U.S. TO KOREA.
Merritt Clifton
Editor, ANIMAL PEOPLE
P.O. Box 960
Clinton, WA 98236
Telephone: 1-360-579-2505
Fax: 1-360-579-2565
E-mail: anmlpepl at whidbey.com
Web: www.animalpeoplenews.org
[ANIMAL PEOPLE is the leading indepedent newspaper providing original
investigative coverage of animal protection worldwide, in all facets,from
animal care-and-control to zoological conservation. We have no alignment or
affiliation with any other entity.]
Seoul Searching Korea
http://www.seoulsearching.com/DogMeat.html
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