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Can My Dog Eat This?

July 18, 2018 by EK Park, Executive Director 3 Comments

Did you know that dogs in the dog meat farm NOT ONLY suffer from living in rusty, crowded cages, BUT they are fed with awful food scrap?

The truth has been revealed that these dogs’ foods come from human food waste. Another shocking fact is that, 27 of 33 food waste treatment plants in Korea were identified as dog meat farms. This means that all the food wastes that we dispose out go straight to our poor dogs in the farms.

The dogs are fed rotten food scrap with bacteria and are marketed as ‘nutritious’. In particular, the food scrap provided to puppies was mostly in the form of wet feed without any dehydration process.

In addition, there are very serious hygiene issues. This may cause an outbreak of infectious diseases because the food scrap that the dogs consume is wet and found to include other animals’ parts such as poultry intestines.

As of 2016, 43% of food waste has been consumed as livestock feed. However, the Ministry of Environment has pointed out that it is difficult to completely treat food scrap without the presence of dog farms. The Ministry of Environment, which is planning to take measures, also said that they are still unable to find any alternatives of dog farms for their food waste solutions.

Statistically, in South Korea, there are over 781,000 dogs in dog meat farms and more than 90% of the dogs are being fed with rotten food scrap.

Together, we can end this cruel practice!

 Sign this important petition.

We reached the goal of 200,000 signatures, but we wish to get more signatures.

PETITION LINK: www.freedogkorea.com

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  4. Click the blue ‘AGREE’ button
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Article source from: http://www.insight.co.kr/news/167036

Written by Elisabeth Kim

Elisabeth Kim Integrated Media graduate from OCAD University, is a Photographer, Videographer and Editor. Born in South Korea, was raised in Montreal and now living in Toronto with her lovely dog Shany the Jack Russell.

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Filed Under: Blog, Dog Meat Trade Tagged With: Bok Nal, Dog Meat Farm, Dog Rescue, Korea

About EK Park, Executive Director

EK Park is the founder of Free Korean Dogs. She is a photographer, videographer and animal advocate. Born on a small farm in South Korea, EK now lives in Bracebridge ON with her partner, Greg, three dogs and a grumpy cat.

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  1. Gailina says

    July 21, 2018 at 8:28 pm

    THIS INHUMANE CRUEL SADISTIC DEPRAVED WAY OF FEEDING THESE POOR HELPLESS DOGS GROSS GARBAGE, N THEN TORTURING THEM UPNYO PROLONGED DEATHS, REALLY NEEDS TO BE BROUGHT AS AWARENESS TO THE GOVERNMENTS WHERE WE LIVE N TO THE WORLD, N ACCOMPLISHED EVEN FASTER N EVEN UNIVERSITIES, NEWSPAPER ADS EITH SHORT BUT STRONG DEPICTIONS N PHOTOS ETC!! THIS NEEDS EORLWIDE ATTENTION OF THE HORROR N DELIBERATELY INFLICTING THE WORST TORTURE SKINNED N BOILED ALIVE DEATHS OF MILLIONS OF PRECIOUS SOULS N USEFUL LIVES OF SACRIFICED DOG’S PER YEAR!!! NEEDS TO BE BROADCAST LOUDER N CLEARER TO SUCCESSFULLY STOP THIS DISGRACE N TO **BOYCOTT PRODUCTS N INCLUDES THE WINTER OLYMPICS ( I BOYCOTTED N I WROTE EVERY TWITTER N FACEBOOK N NEWS VENUES BRINGING ATTENTION IN STH KOREA THAT DOG MEAT SERVED IN SURROUNDING RESTAURANTS AROUND OLYMPICS STADIUM ETC N KIND OF DEATHS FOR DAYS ON END!!), N BOYCOTT COUNTRIES CONDONING CRUELTY N SUFFERING N WICKEDNESS!!!

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    • Eleanor Mcelroy says

      July 22, 2018 at 6:13 pm

      Cannot put into words any better than you have .well done

      Reply
  2. Rosalind Wald says

    July 30, 2018 at 12:14 am

    SHAMEFUL
    A crime against the soul of the earth……hurting animals in such heinous ways!
    Karma somehow will pay this back.

    Reply

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