Korean Dog Petition
A Who’s Who of Hollywood hit-makers and Billboard chart-toppers—including Kid Rock, Charlize Theron, Christina Aguilera, Joe Pesci, Steve Buscemi, Janet Jackson, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Pamela Anderson, and Bill Maher—have signed PETA’s petition urging the South Korean government to prohibit the beating, hanging, burning, and boiling alive of fully conscious dogs and cats.
Tortured and Cooked Alive
As hard as it is to believe, these are everyday occurrences in South Korea, where cats and dogs are tortured for “tonics” and aphrodisiacs. Although South Korean law technically prohibits such cruelty and denounces dog-eating (a token declaration made before the 1988 Summer Olympics to avoid international outcry), these laws are mere façades with absolutely no enforcement. Investigators from animal protection organizations and the media have found that:
You can view the petition here.
Fully conscious dogs are strung up by their necks and violently beaten to increase the flow of adrenaline in their flesh—which is believed to make men who eat it more virile.
Cats are boiled alive in pressure cookers in order to extract their “juice” for use in medicinal “tonics.”
During transport to market, dogs are crammed into trucks so tightly that their limbs often snap under the weight of their terrified companions.
Cats and dogs await their nightmarish fate in crowded cages—often so small that standing up is impossible—without food or water for days on end.
