Hello Firstly I would like to take this opportunity to say thank you for signing this very important petition. The time has come though to increase the pressure on select South Korean government ministers. Please help Say No To Dog Meat.Net 1. Email the letter herein to the Mayor Jae Myung Lee that has jurisdiction over the Moran Traditional Meat Market. 2. Please lets push this petition harder then ever before and conclude it. Lets show the South Korean Government that there is more than a dedicated organisation behind it, inciting change - there is also a peopled powered movement that is no longer going to accept this chronic animal cruelty in the name of fake medicine. Please send the email below the dotted line by copy and pasting the letter to the address here - Email address Ljm631000@nate -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mayor Jae-Myung Lee District – Seongnam South Korea Date; 2014 Email address Ljm631000@nate Re: Moran Traditional Meat Market; Dear Mayor Jae-Myung Lee Re: Moran Traditional Meat Market and Animal Abuse; Whilst consumption of dog and cat meat is acceptable to some South Korean citizens as a cultural medicinal food, the torture and obscene animal abuse seen on such a grand scale at the Traditional Moran Meat Market is totally unacceptable in today‘s modern world. Since the beginning of 2000, I and my colleagues have watched in horror and shock at the heinous acts of animal abuse, canine and feline torture to increase taste of meat, have witnessed smugglers delivering many cages of dogs to the Moran Meat Market traders and even seen the appalling state in which dogs and cats at the Moran Meat Market are kept. Confined to rusty, metal cages, some seven to sixty dogs confined to varying sized over crowded death cages, the pain these animals are going through can be seen vividly. Their bodies fragile, shaking, cold and riddled with disease. I am fully knowledgeable that there is no real animal abuse or welfare laws within South Korea. However, we have to act now Mayor Jae-Myung Lee, sooner rather than later, to combat the risk of viruses spreading into the public domain from the consumption of both cat and dog meat and cease the animal cruelty, bringing South Korea inline with other countries that host professional animal welfare laws. Viruses are mutating and building more powerful resistance to the humans immune systems antibodies. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome and the highly contagious H1N1 virus are becoming more viral from which there is a strong possibility that mutations from these two killer viruses will soon emerge, placing human and animal life in danger furthermore. Are we prepared to take this risk, continuing a trade that is not only cruel and barbaric but a public bio-hazard to many locals and international citizens? There is no trade control Mayor Jae-Myung, of dog and cat meat in South Korea. Food hygiene laws are violated everyday placing yet again the public at increasing risk of pathogenic food bacteria being passed on from spoiled and/or diseased dog and cat meat. Dog and cat meat is no different to that of lamb, beef, pork, duck, or chicken. Market stalls within Moran Meat Market display butchered dog and cat meat products in wholly inadequate and unhygienic environments, which places the purchasing consumer and their immediate families and friends at risk of food borne bacterial disease. Salmonella and Campylobacter better known as the (barbecue bug) kills many people every year worldwide and is responsible for headaches, dizziness and fever followed by severe stomach pains and diarrhea, which may be bloody. Although vomiting is rare, occasionally pains are so severe that sufferers are misdiagnosed as having appendicitis. Children and the elderly that suffer from Immunosuppression are more at risk from contracting such food pathogens from consuming diseased and infested dog and cat meat. Both Salmonella and Campylobacter as well as Noroviruses (NoV) that derived from the highly contagious Norwalk virus can be transmitted to humans too, from unsanitary food and slaughter preparation areas and contaminated food and water. Noroviruses (NoV) affects some 260 million people a year and is responsible for the deaths of some 200,000 people a year. E coli, and Listeria are two of the most common food pathogens associated with food poisonings that can occur from preparing dog and cat meat in unsanitary conditions thus spreading onto humans leading to a range of unwanted gastrointestinal symptoms. Some of these symptoms and secondary disorders can range from projectile vomiting and kidney and liver disease. In rare cases death can occur, even in those that have strong immune systems. The most worrying aspect of the dog and cat meat trade is the pathogen E coli 0157 that produces a powerful poison called verocytotoxin which can cause kidney failure and death. E coli 0157 is usually passed on from raw and undercooked meats, or cooked meats that have been left at ambient room temperature above 5 degrees Celsius, from which in one hour over one million bacteria can multiply. Just think in five hours how many bacteria can multiply just on one cooked or undercooked dog or cat carcass. We, Say No To Dog Meat.Net and its supporters are petitioning the South Korean government President Geun-Hye Park, asking to take dog and cat meat of the menu. Since the beginning of November 2013 our petition has gathered worldwide support and media attention, attracting some 21,200 signatures out of the 100,000 we are calling for. The petition is amassing some 1,100 signatures a day and we will not stop lobbying until change is seen. Mayor Jae-Myung, we as a collective organisation and concerned citizens, politely ask you to lobby President Geun-Hye Park to take dog and cat meat off the menu, thus wiping out this heinous animal abusive culture and protect South Koreas citizens and international tourists from food virus’s and biological virus mutations, which are increasing and worrying many scientists from around the world. We do not expect a reply, however we will continue to lobby, email, call in media and press and will be taking the final petition to all South Korean Mayors, President Geun-Hye Park and her Deputy. We say no to dog meat. Do you? Sincerely yours WWW.SAYNOTODOGMEAT.NET Name........................... Address..................... Email............................ Date............................ Telephone number This message was sent by Say No To Dog Meat.Net using the Change.org system. You received this email because you signed a petition started by Say No To Dog Meat.Net on Change.org: President Geun-Hye Park:: Take Dog & Cat Meat off the Menu!. Change.org does not endorse the contents of this message.
Posted on: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 08:42:45 +0000
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