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Korea Animal Rights Advocates is a volunteer, non-profit organization in Korea whose members support and promote animal rights. We believe that animals have a right to live their lives free from tyranny and suffering.
As in other countries, the exploitation and abuse of animals is a constant problem in Korea. It is made worse by Korea's very poor animal welfare reputation and its weak and ineffective animal protection laws. In general, animals are not given much regard and the general public is uninformed about animal issues. These are among the reasons why Korea is a hell on earth for many creatures.
KARA works constantly to educate the public and raise awareness of the ethical issues surrounding the treatment of animals in Korea. Through this we hope to bring about lasting change.
As dogs were not listed as livestock, there were no legal grounds to regulate dog meat restaurants and breeders of dogs for dog meat.
So, the Ministry of Environment has decided to categorize dogs as livestock primarily to control the sanitation practices of large-scale dog breeders.
This law change is all about the disposal of dog excretions and typically has nothing to do with actually improving the hellish conditions that dogs have to endure.
Dog Farm Disgrace
Believe it or not, a dog is in the cage on the left, living out its days in filth and darkness, in a tiny space enclosed by rusted wire.
Here is the reality of dog farms in Korea. If you think cultural tollerance should be shown towards Korea's dog meat industry, think again.
The issue of the appauling conditions these dogs are kept in has dragged on for months. What can anyone do in a country where the laws are on the side of the abusers?
We've tried all lawful means to get these dogs released but the result has not been encouraging. This is an example of what can happen in Korea when facing negligent dog owners. Read the whole story here.
53 Billion Per Year
The numbers of animals killed in the world by the meat, dairy and egg industries since you opened this webpage:
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This counter does not include the billions of fish and sea animals killed annually.
Dog Meat Cruelties: this undercover video from the Korean Animal Welfare Association shows what dogs routinely suffer in Korea's dog meat industry. Please sign the Stop Killing Dogs petition to fight this disgraceful industry.
How You Can Help
KARA is a volunteer organization that relies on support from the community. You can help us by donating so that we can continue to fight for the rights of animals in Korea.
Donations go towards animal rescue and care, campaigning for animals, and the running of KARA. Every bit helps towards freeing animals from cruelty and giving them the rights and respect they deserve.
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KARA's Director
KARA's director is also a director of movies!
Soonrye Yim has directed 7 movies of different kinds and also written movie scripts. KARA is glad she took up the appointment and we all expect great things and new developements in the future.
KARA is part of theMember Society Network of The World Society for the Protection of Animals.
The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but rather, "Can they suffer?
Jeremy Bentham
I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.
Henry David Thoreau
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favour freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are people who want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
Frederick Douglass
I know, in my soul, that to eat a creature who is raised to be eaten, and who never has a chance to be a real being, is unhealthy. It's like...you're just eating misery. You're eating a bitter life.
Alice Walker
As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.
Pythagoras
Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they're only animals.
Theodor Adorno
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.
William Ralph Inge
In their behavior toward creatures, all men are Nazis. Human beings see oppression vividly when they're the victims. Otherwise they victimize blindly and without a thought.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.
Peter Singer
A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.
Leo Tolstoy
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
Mahatma Gandhi
Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
Thomas Edison
Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.
George Bernard Shaw
The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
Charles Darwin
I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.
Leonardo Da Vinci
Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.
As dogs were not listed as livestock, there were no legal grounds to regulate dog meat restaurants and breeders of dogs for dog meat.
