Dog may be a staple ingredient in various Asian cuisines, but that wasn’t enough to silence South Korean animal rights activists, whose repeated protests lead to the cancellation of a Seongnam festival focused on promoting canine meat’s consumption.
The festival, which was to be held in a traditional open-air market, quickly stirred fury from South Korean animal advocates and many Internet users, who conducted several online campaigns to force the event’s cancellation.
“This is making our country an international laughing stock, and making the whole world mistakenly believe that all South Koreans eat dogs,” said Park So-Youn, head of Coexistence of Animal Rights on Earth.
The continued protests eventually led to a lack of appropriate space for the event. “We couldn’t possibly go on with the plan due to endless phone calls of complaint…now there are few willing to rent us a place for the event,” said Ann Yong-Geun, an adviser to the Korea Dog Farmers’ Association and a professor of nutrition at Chung Cheong University.
Of course, for those who do enjoy their dog meat, the South Korean event’s cancellation seems unlikely to have lasting implications. A similar, week-long festival recently kicked off without a hitch in China.
i work with koreans i cant stand the fact all of them at one point ate dogmeat ,iam very vocal about it and told them how dissustet i am about it , they just laugh at me ,i try to ecucate them by bringing books magazines ect to show them how grateful we should be to dogs for all they do for us ishow them pics how i live with my 3 dogs in my home they dont have a concept how we feel about our dogs makesme sad and very angry
it actual makes me sick to know that they club them to death maybe if they just cut there throats it may be better , all threw asia this practice goes on even bali and in are culture we eat meat like cows they beast thing is all go veg and every creature should live in peace and be free
Dog Meat Festival?????!!!! people worse than animals!
I can’t understand that they can look into a dog’s eye’s, see the fear in them and hearing their screams and still be able to bring such agonzing pain on them. Do they have no soul? I just look at the pictures of the dog’s in cages, piled up on one another, I cry my eye’s out knowing what is to happen to them.
These korea people has no soul they are evil people thats all i can think of them as evil like devil. they have no soul and no heart they have black heart. what if its them instead of the dogs how would they like this if it was them being abused and killed . i feel for the animals. iam animal lover i have five cats two dogs what the hell wrong with people there no excuses . God and bible never said can kill dogs. he said eat veg, fruit and fish. that i see that. i want this stopped. this is nonesense . what an abusive people there. poor babies dogs and cats. They are wonderful and smart pets. how can they do this to them . they dont deserve this. they know better and should be ashamed of themselves.
This is absolutely disgusting to say that we live on this earth with people like this. I would love to squish them into these crates and have them wondering what’s going to happen next and then hang them like they do these dogs. Nothing would bring me more pleasure