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The dog meat industry in Korea is such a critical and central issue with regard to Korean animal welfare that we devote an entire section to it here.
Under Current Situation you will find what the status of the dog meat issue is in Korea from 2005 onwards. This is because little has changed since that significant year. That was the year the Korean government began maneuvering to legalize the dog meat industry.
Under History, we discuss the claims of dog eating as an integral part of Korean culture, as is often claimed by dog industry supporters. We also dismiss the idea that any tradition justifies the horrendous conditions and the cruelties that dogs are subjected to in Korea.
Under the Yellow Dog headings you can view the Yellow Dog website, which has pictures and video from research conducted by a group and KARA member known as "Yellow Dog." The English version of the Yellow Dog research is available under the Field Research heading.
The News Items section contains a selection of news articles relating to the dog meat issue, both local and international.
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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 can be made via the button, or if you have a Paypal account you can send a donation to donate@animalrightskorea.org. Every bit helps towards freeing animals from cruelty and giving them the rights and respect they deserve.
Jin Young Building, B1 / 107-43, Banpo4-Dong, Seocho-gu, Seoul - Tel: 82-010-9003-0439 / Fax: 82-2-3482-8835
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.
Albert Einstein
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