Animal Cruelty in Korea

Ah, South Korea, it is a land full of wonderful scenery, the homeland of K-Pop artists and the birthplace of the popular Gangnam Style music video. South Korea is a very beautiful place. Or is it?

South Korea is also the land of dog meat consumption. In western countries, a lot of kids plead their parents for a pet dog. I would guess that some of the readers of this blog also had once longed for a dog, man's best friend, your companion that loves you even more than your wife in certain cases. 


Looks yummy, doesn't it?Well, that is the meat of an innocent puppy. The dish is called Gaegogi Muchim.



This is one of the common types of dogs fed to the South Koreans. They are called the Nureogi. They are so cute. Imagine cuddling with them as they lick you and love you.


Oh dearThat above, is the fate that these innocent Nureogi (or Old Yeller) in South Korea will have to endure. It is so saddening. How can cute doggies become food? It is so cruel.

Well, you may say that animals like cows and chickens are also cute and used for slaughter. That is true and that is one of the many reasons why I am vegetarian but the method of slaughter for these innocent doggies is very cruel and relentless and can even be more painful than the method used for slaughtering cows, chickens and other meats.

The way that these doggies is killed are that they are beaten after being prodded by electricity. Even though the electric prod had dulled their senses a bit, the dogs can feel the full amount of pain from the beatings they are given to help increase their tenderness.

After the painful beatings, the slaughterer will bring for the knife and use the popular method amongst all forms of slaughter, bleeding. They stab the knife into the throat of the dog and let it hang as it bleeds out while still alive.

Then after bleeding out a certain amount, the dogs, still alive, would be boiled to help make skinning the dog and removing its fur easier. The dog is drowned in the boiling water.

This cruelty must be stopped.

There is a solution. Go to facebook pages and spread awareness of this cruel practice. Email your friends. Tweet. The internet is a more powerful than the pen or the sword. Use it!