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Stop the cruelty of dog meat eating in South Korea

Target: Kim Dae Jung, President of South Korea, Government of South Korea
Sponsor: Ulrike Yaani Buergel-Goodwin, private
  • Signatures: 4,456
  • Goal: 5,000
  • Deadline: 5-7-2003
Stop the cruelties of dog meat eating (farming, trading, offering in restaurants and shops, all the especially painful techniques of slaughtering).

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Number Date Prefix Name Country Why I am signing this petition Will you buy any goods from South Korea until dogmeat is forbidden?
4,484 10:55 am PDT, Jun 18 Mrs. Kelly Gibbons United Kingdom Absolutely barbaric practice, these people are ignorant, heartless and cruel. No
4,483 5:02 pm PDT, Jun 12 Mrs. Bernadettte Przybyl United States    
4,482 5:53 am PDT, Jun 10   Renata Johnston Korea, Republic Of Stop the torture you barbaric freaks! No
4,481 2:39 pm PDT, Jun 9   Marc Grawunder Germany I hate these cruelties! No.
4,480 2:23 pm PDT, Jun 9 Ms. Margaret Sweeny United Kingdom    
4,479 8:29 am PDT, Jun 9 Mrs. Joana Peixoto Portugal    
4,478 7:00 am PDT, Jun 9 Ms. Leigh Bennett United States    
4,477 11:48 pm PDT, Jun 8 Ms. Gemma Hollingsworth Australia    
4,476 4:34 pm PDT, Jun 8 Ms. Suzybell Hughes United States    
4,475 3:57 pm PDT, Jun 8 Mrs. Lyhann O'Shaughnessy Mexico    
4,474 3:24 pm PDT, Jun 8 Ms. Joan for Peace United States    
4,473 3:10 pm PDT, Jun 8 Ms. Tierney Grinavic United States    
4,472 2:16 pm PDT, Jun 8 Mr. chris beal United Kingdom    
4,471 1:48 pm PDT, Jun 8 Mrs. Susan Marden United States    
4,470 1:08 pm PDT, Jun 8 Ms. Dalia Hettfield United States    
4,469 1:08 pm PDT, Jun 8 Ms. Jamie Lee United States    
4,468 12:25 pm PDT, Jun 8 Mrs. LaJana Potter United States    
4,467 8:32 am PDT, May 6   Miriam Smith Canada This is wrong in every way i can imagine. No animal deserves to endure this kind of treatment and pain No, i won't
4,466 10:38 am PDT, May 2   Charlotte Kristensen Denmark Cruelty of dogs are so wrong and should be stoped at once No way
4,465 9:06 pm PDT, Apr 28   Valerie Wond Korea, Democratic People's Republic Of I work in Seoul, and every day I have to walk past small cages where dogs are kept all day long in order to be eaten. They never have the chance to run and play like other dogs. it breaks my heart! Unfortunatley I have to live here for 1 more year so I have to buy things here for the time being.
4,464 11:46 am PDT, Apr 13 Mrs. Linda K Friesz United States   No - I will make it a point to verify that everything I buy DOES NOT come from South Korea and will notify all my friends and family!!!
4,463 10:54 pm PDT, Apr 12   Mary Tauras United States    
4,462 12:52 pm PDT, Apr 1 Ms. Tricia Infante United States I believe that dogs should not be eaten. That is just cruel and sickening. No i will not buy any foods from south korea.
4,461 7:26 am PDT, Mar 12 Mrs. Ineke Jansen Netherlands Animals have feelings just like us humans have! So STOP doing things to them which you don't want to experience yourself!!! I will not come on holiday to your country or buy things which are produced in your country!
4,460 9:29 am PST, Mar 4 Ms. Anonymous United States because we have to stop this. please. absolutely not
4,459 7:47 pm PST, Mar 2 Ms. Christina Scott United Kingdom Because dogs don't have the voices to speak up so we have to. Nothing should be treated as badly as the dogs are. No, definately not.
4,458 2:31 pm PST, Mar 2 Ms. lorna hanmore United Kingdom its just so sad i couldnt imagine what it is like for these dogs i have watched the tv programmes and have seen it several times on the net. it upsets me so much that people could treat these beautiful animals in such a way. i am signin this petition because this cruelty has to stop once and for all!! not a chance!
4,457 12:52 pm PST, Mar 2   Mike Pak United States TO STOP KILLING DOGS. I am a Korean that is born in American and I think that is absolutey wrong that they kill dogs. So, If I go to South Korea and see a dog restrarant Im gonna a literally spit on them and break there restrauant window, and relase any caged dogs  
4,456 9:15 am PST, Feb 24   Ryan W. Moss United States Because I believe that dogs are your friends, not your dinner!!  
4,455 6:30 am PST, Feb 9 Ms. saskia schreurs Netherlands it is terrible what they do with the animals.  
4,454 1:06 pm PST, Feb 5 Mr. Daniel Toreson United States For centuries dogs have been loyal, loving companions and protectors of people. They feel affection, love, and pain. The level of intentional torture and pain these sub-animal asians inflict on "man's best friend" is the ultimate betrayal of their trust and service to us. Peeling the skin off of a living and conscious Shepard deserves the most severe response imaginable. NO, and I am also boycotting China and Philippines for the same reasons.
4,453 11:12 pm PST, Jan 24   Elizabeth MacBeth United Kingdom It's the way that the animals are tortured, terrified and the manner in which they are killed that is the most appalling of all I will not intentionly or knowingly buy Korean goods
4,452 1:11 am PST, Jan 24 Mrs. takashina saori Japan i love pets no

Stop the cruelty of dog meat eating in South Korea

Sir, I got news that Mr. Choi Han-Gwon, president of the Korean association which is promoting dog meat trading, announced to offer juice from dogmeat to the visitors of the FIFA World Cup, 31.May - 30.June 2002, in South Korea as an especially tasty specific Korean beverage. I ask you to prevent this mental abberation as well as eating dogmeat in general.
The World Cup is a good occasion to expose to the world the cultural values of South Korea but not to perform that horror show of cruelty. The dog breeding in special farms under unimaginable brutal conditions as well as the stealing of dogs out of loving families to sell the dog meat continues in South Korea. While the dogs are raised up and during slaughter they have to suffer pains and tortures which only sick brains are able to invent. The governmental statement which says that dogmeat was only eaten in times of poverty is refuted from the public announcement of Mr. Choi Han-Gwon. To enforce animal protection in your country it is necessary to forbid breeding dogs for meat and to trade with dog meat as well as private slaughter of dogs. And it is necessary to punish with high fines or even up to emprisonment. To let go on the nationwide cruelties against dogs hurts both, the tortured animals and the feelings and dignity of all honest and good-natured people in your country and everywhere in the world.
For more than 150 000 years (following the latest results of research) a manlike process of self domestication led from wolves to dogs living in that mixed symbiotic dog/man population which you can find everywhere on the globe. Our human development bases on this symbiosis in an unmeasurable degree. Therefore dogs are different from all other animals, even incomparable to other domestic animals. Their natural skills and voluntary services demand our respect, their social skills, their high level of conciousness and self-conciousness demand for responsability about their necessaries of life. Their confidence and love may make us ashamed.

A nation torturing its dogs may not be called civilized. Dog eating indicates a tormentor-minded and cannibalismlike ignorance about the long symbiotic history of dogs and mankind and its importance for the development of ancient societies and culture.

I am looking foreward to your answer.

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