Every year, a million dogs are brutally slaughtered in S. Korea for meat while the government turns a blind eye.
LCA has formed a sister organization in S. Korea, Animal Liberation Wave (ALW), with one mission in mind–to end the dog meat trade. Rescuing dogs one-at-a-time is not the answer and will not put an end this horrific industry. This can only be accomplished with S. Korean citizens demanding change at the government level. With “boots-on-the-ground” in Korea, LCA and ALW are in a position to affect real change. With a series of strategic events planned, LCA and ALW aim to mobilize S. Koreans in their own country to call for the end of the dog meat trade.
Currently, one out of five S. Koreans (2 million – one-fifth of a ten million population) have dogs as companion animals. Old attitudes are changing; dogs are increasingly being considered as part of the family.
There are three legal loopholes that allow the S. Korean dog meat industry to exist:
1. Animal Protection Act loophole: Dogs are legally categorized as “companion animals” in this act, and it says they “must not be killed in a brutal way.” However, because the slaughter is not outlawed outright in this language, the butchering continues.
2. Wastes Control Act loophole: Most dog farms that dot the S. Korean countryside gather rotten food waste from restaurants and force feed it to the dogs to save money. If using food waste as animal feed is outright banned by this act, most dog farms won’t be able to operate economically.
3. Livestock Industry Act loophole: This outdated act still recognizes dogs as “livestock,” a direct contradiction to the Animal Protection Act, and results in millions of dogs being bred, raised, and killed under horrific conditions for their flesh.
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