Does anyone know if this is true?

[bk_blue]

I found this post on another board (not dog-related), and was wondering if such horrid things actually happen...
:evil: so can anyone enlighten me? Doing that to crayfish is bad enough, especially when you have to pick them out (no, I don't do this), but to a DOG???? I really hope it is not true!

i don't know if you guys have ever seen how they treat dogs in korea...it is horrendous! i could not believe when i saw this on television...the dogs are grabbed by the throat with some sort of leash (something sort of like what police men use)and throw them into an enormous hot boiling bowl filled with water. the poor defenseless dogs try to escape but they can't and the people were just there watching like nothing was happening. can you imagine something like this happening to anyone? of course the dogs die burned in misery. i have a little puppy and a rottweiler and i would die if anything like this ever happened to them.

[mouseatthebusstop]

:mad: :mad: :mad: GRRRRRR!!!!!!! :evil: :evil: :evil:

[Dad4duchess]

:o ah man :cry:

[bk_blue]

:( :evil:
Absolutely no concept of suffering!!!!
Is ther anything that we can do to get involved with this protest movement?

[bk_blue]

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thanks for the info... I will be sending emails and forwarding this to my friends... :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil:

[sixjollydogs]

:mad: :evil: What in the name of God is WRONG with these people!

We should boycott anything to do with Korea until they stop this baribarity!

[sixjollydogs]

:evil: The Korean treatment of animals is repugnant and must be stopped. I have written them a letter.

I would urge those of you who do not follow a vegetarian diet to consider;however, the cruelty inflected on animals in the US

1. Premarin is made from horse urine. The mares are kept in stall in which they can neither lay down or move. A urine collector is bound to the rear to collect the urine. It wears sores on them. The urine must be concentrated so they are not given enough water. The babies are sold to slaughter houses...often for meat overseas.

2. Veal calves are kept in crates in the dark, they are kept sick and anemic so the meat will be white.

3. Chickens are kept in cages so small they can not move are even spead their wings. Male baby chicks are thrown in the trash and oftena crusher as they are of no use. Producers regularly use a process called forced molting in which the hens are starved for several weeks to force them to molt and have one last egg cycle before being slaughtered.

4. Most farms see animals as factory units and treat them as such...that is why over 50% of the antibiotics in this country go to the livestock industry.
Many animals are raised in cramped and confining conditions. (pigs, chickens particularly)

5. Those who work in slaughter houses estimate that up to 30% of the cattle are still alive and aware when they begin cutting them up. this is because the lines are running so fast...and why this industry has such a high rate of human injuries too.


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[sixjollydogs]

:( Premarin is indeed a HRT. As to the treatment of farm animals, the problem lies with the factory farms which are pushing the family farms out of business.

Please understand, I am sickened by what is happening in Korea and have written a protest letter on their official web site...which has material on this...some...which I refused to even look at...justifiying it as a "cultural" issue.

Well, the South used to keep slaves, until recent time Blacks were told to go to the back of the bus.....it was part of the culture and it was wrong! Repugnant! Sick!

What is happening in Korea is not a cultural things as some try to justify, it began during the war...and just has kept up! (I have read )

[Guest roo]

K Hope it helps :cry:
But i was also very upset that at the
football worldcup, these people were giving the tourists
a sample meal of their usual diet......
Dogs :cry: :cry: :cry:

They will never see the wrong in it k
They really believe harming an animal makes it taste better
Also i am sure you know of the trade in st Bernard meat out there

Also apparently puppies put live on spits and barbequed(sp)
Are a wonderful meal too.
I love a lot of oriental things.... but i refuse to EVER go out there
on holiday.
I think the whole this is pathetic and unethical and disgusting.
But they more than likely think the same about fox hunting
boar hunting etc, with these sports :x you dont even get anything left to eat :roll:
And the chow has its name for chow (food)
Its a saddo world out there.

[Rowie-the-Pooh]

:mad: :cry: :mad: :cry:
I guess this is why newfiemom is a vegatarian..... :cry:

I guess after THIS i'll be vegaterian! :o

Oh, gosh! How horrible! :mad:

I can just imagine....the poor dogs, thinking"what did I do wrong? Why do they hate me?!" And the cats SCREAMING as they are THROWN into a bowl of BOILING water!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :mad:

I'm getting angrier by the minute!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :mad:

If it wasn't night over here...I would have gone and given Rowie a HUGE hug! But she's sleeping right now, and just looking at her face and imagining if it were HER in Korea bieng abused..... :o Make's me wanna cry! :cry:

Everyone, be thankful that it isn't YOUR dog in the couldren!! :o And give your dog(s) a BIG FAT SLOPPERY KISS and lets all pray that Korea STOPS abusing those poor,poor animals! :mad: :evil:

[Bensam]

This practice is disgusting. BK, I'm pleased to see you are going to take some action re this, but do you realise it is going on in your own country? While some are saying it's a custom in some overseas countries and practically turning a blind eye to it happening in Aussie, I think there is enough evidence to say it is happening here. The part that upsets me the most is that while these people are trying to excuse the practice they are burying their heads in the sand re the shocking cruelty that happens as part of that custom. I am emailing the relevent Government authorities, our RSPCA and the Victorian Canine Assoc. of which I am a member. So far the only one who has replied is the RSPCA. So perhaps you could get busy here as well, I'm sure the more agro they all get, the better chance of getting something done.

[bk_blue]

Thanks Bensam, I guess it has been an urban myth not to let your dog walk down Victoria St ("little Vietnam") otherwise it might end up in your next meal... :wink: but never really thought it would happen until the recent Staffy pup case. A report in the Age quoted the Victorian Korean Club (like a cultural association) which said that Koreans here did not practice the consumption of dogs and cats as they were in Australia where it was not done. Maybe the majority don't eat pets- but there are probably some who do, as highlighted by last week's case... Can I also just say that just because it may be a tradition doesn't make it right...and certainly not acceptable in this country where domesticated animals are just that and not livestock (and by this I also mean it is unacceptable everywhere). At least if the ban is passed in Parliament it will be an actual crime to eat the family pet, breaking the habit may take longer but IT WILL WORK. :evil: I bet that the govt has already forgotten the issue... until the next poor puppy is rescued from a soup bowl. Guess it is up to us to make sure they DON'T forget!
What other countries apart from Korea (and maybe Vietnam?) practise this evil 'tradition'?

[Bensam]

BK, it is up to us to make sure the Gov. and other bodies who SHOULD be involved do not forget this issue. I have emailed the VCA and the Minister for Agric., who apparently is responsible for this type of legislation, again today. If you look under 'Government, Victoria' you will see the email addresses. I had also emailed Mr Bracks and will send him another if no reply from the Min. of Ag. I posted this on an Aussie forum and had hoped to get some support there, but so far there doesn't appear to be much. I'm afraid there may be a lot of ostriches out there! Never mind, at least I can keep trying, but I feel numbers is what we need.

[bk_blue]

I have emailed Bracks, Keith Hamilton (min for agriculture) and the VCA... it will probably get pushed to the bottom of the pile due to the Bali situation but I still think it is important- humanity begins at home!

[Bensam]

Thanks BK, there may not be many of us, but I'm sure we can make a big noise between us. The legislation in Victoria does not cover this and I was hoping to find out if other States in Aussie were the same. Had hoped to get some feedback on the Aussie forum, but not so far. So guess we will just try and get it altered in Vic. Will be a start anyway.

[julie45]

:mad: Its so hard to think these dogs are going thro so much,but the worst part is i'm sitting here with my dogs in front of the fire and there's nothing i can do to help them :evil: :evil: :evil: :mad: :mad: :mad:

[bk_blue]

Hi Julie, even if you write a really brief email it might help the cause... you never know, if there is enough of a stink kicked up about it they might change the law- governments don't like to look bad do they! Does it go on at all in the UK, I know you lot are fairly civilised :wink: but I thought we were too and look what's happening to our puppies. :evil:
I just wonder why it was never a crime to eat pets in the first place. :o
Bensam- I have a feeling it is a criminal offence in NSW or SA, can't remember which.

[sixjollydogs]

:cry: :mad: I have not and will not look at the pictures...just the idea of them fills me with rage and tears!

God help us that so-called "humans" would do this. There is just one word for it and that is EVIL!!!

[sixjollydogs]

:evil: Ok...I am not finished....I have writtens several letters. We need to call everyone to boycott EVERYTHING Korean!!!

If this is their culture than it is a sick sick sick one!

I think there is a special place in Hell for those who do this!

[bk_blue]

:o I feel sick.

:evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil:

This is so horrible, how can they get away with it????