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I came across this piece of information and thought I should share this with our readers. Please spare a few minutes to consider what you can do to help these dogs and cats which are beaten alive for consumption in Korea (Please share with your friends):

.The atrocities inflicted upon dogs and cats slaughtered for human consumption in Korea are shockingly cruel: Dogs are electrocuted or are often fully conscious as they are strung up by their necks and beaten violently in order to increase the flow of adrenaline in their flesh, which is believed to increase the virility of men who eat it. Cats endure a fate just as horrific. A recent ITN news report confirms that cats are often boiled alive in order to extract their “juice” for use in medicinal “tonics.” According to the report, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals states that “cats are placed into boiling water while they are still alive. They are basically boiled to death over a long period … using pressure cookers.”

Many dogs and cats raised for consumption in Korea await this nightmarish fate on farms and in markets where they endure horrible conditions in crowded cages—often so small that standing up is impossible—without food or water for days on end. And although current Korean law technically prohibits cruelty to companion animals and denounces the consumption of dog soup, these laws are mere façades with absolutely no enforcement. Sadly, the cruel treatment of these animals continues to this day and is all too common. Please join the dozens of celebrities who have voiced their outrage over this treatment and signed PETA’s petition to the Korean president (click here to see the petition).

(Source : PETA URL : http://www.peta.org/feat/korea/bod.html)

WHAT YOU CAN DO

Please continue to urge the Korean prime minister, the minister of agriculture, and the ambassador in your country to support an amendment to the Animal Protection Act to specifically prohibit the beating, hanging, electrocution, burning, boiling alive, and all other abuse of dogs and cats. Please immediately contact:

His Excellency Kim Dae-jung
President of the Republic of Korea
The Blue House
1, Sejongno, Jongno-gu
Seoul 110-050
Republic of Korea
Tel.: 011 822 770 0011
Fax: 011 822 770 0295
E-Mail: Click here Click here to send the president an e-mail message.

Footage provided by KAPS/IAKA; Tel.: 510-271-6795; www.koreananimals.org

Click here to view photos from South Korean dog and cat markets.

Click here to see our latest letter to the South Korean president.

The Honorable Kim Dong-tae
Ministry of Agriculture & Forestry
Gwacheon Government Office Building
Joongang-dong
Gwancheon City
Gyeonggido Province
South Korea 427-760
E-Mail: minister@maf.go.kr
honeykim@maf.go.kr

For the contact information of Korean Embassies around the world, please click here. For the U.S. and the U.K., please see below:

The Honorable Yang Sung Chul
Ambassador of the Republic of Korea
Embassy of the Republic of Korea
2450 Massachusetts Ave. N.W.
Washington, DC 20008
USA
Tel.: 202-939-5600
Fax: 202-232-0117

The Honorable Ra Jong-yil
Ambassador of the Republic of Korea
Embassy of the Republic of Korea
60 Buckingham Gate, London SW1E 6AJ
U.K.
Tel.: 44 (0) 20 7227-5500
Fax: 44 (0) 20 7227-5503

In the U.K., an Early Day Motion has been introduced in Parliament that condemns “extreme acts of cruelty which take place in South Korea in the killing of over two million cats and dogs annually for human consumption or human medical treatment.” If you live in the U.K., please contact your member of Parliament and ask him or her to sign on to Early Day Motion 1327, also called “Treatment of Animals in South Korea.” If you don’t know who your member of Parliament is,

please click here to find out.

(Source : PETA URL : http://www.peta.org/feat/korea/bod.html)

Dear Friends and Readers,

Please read the following Action Alert from PETA.  I’ve sent my customised letter based on PETA’s draft and it only takes a couple of minutes to spare hundreds/ thousands of animals from being skinned alive for their fur.

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Dear Supporters, We need your help to stop the Fur Council of Canada (FCC) from making outrageous claims that fur is “environmentally friendly.” Consumers know that fur is the product of a violent and cruel industry that slaughters millions of individual seals, rabbits, and other animals each year for their skin. By making these false claims, the FCC is trying to deliberately mislead consumers into thinking that buying fur helps the environment. The fur industry pollutes the Earth with highly toxic chemicals, including sulfuric acid, formaldehyde, and ammonia. A farmed-fur coat takes more than 15 times more energy to produce than a faux-fur coat, and dressing and dyeing furs is classified as high-polluting by Canada’s National Environment Protection Bureau. More than 60 percent of the animals used for fur garments are bred by the Canadian fur industry specifically to be killed for their pelts—which is in direct contradiction to the FCC’s claims of balancing “surplus” populations of animals. Concerned Canadian citizens have filed a complaint with Canada’s Competition Bureau asking for an investigation. Please click here to add your voice, as there is nothing “green” about killing animals for their fur. Thank you for all that you do for animals. Sincerely, Megan Hartman Assistant Director of Campaigns PETA Visit the web address below to tell your friends about this. Tell-a-friend! If you received this message from a friend, you can sign up for PETA’s Online Community.

The fur ads you might see in magazines and commercials portray fur coats as a symbol of elegance. But these ads fail to show how the original owners of these coats met their gruesome deaths.

Millions of fur-bearing animals including foxes, raccoons, minks, coyotes, bobcats, lynxes, opossums, nutria, beavers, muskrats, otters, and others are killed each year on fur farms by anal and vaginal electrocution and in the wild by drowning, trapping, or beating. (Source : PETA at http://www.furisdead.com/index.asp )

Help Stop the Cruel Fur Industry.

KFC suppliers cram birds into huge waste-filled factories, breed and drug them to grow so large that they can’t even walk, and often break their wings and legs. At slaughter, the birds’ throats are slit and they are dropped into tanks of scalding-hot water—often while they are still conscious. It would be illegal for KFC to abuse dogs, cats, pigs, or cows in these ways.

KFC’s own animal welfare advisors have asked the company to take steps to eliminate these abuses, but KFC refuses to do so. Many advisors have now resigned in frustration.

Please join Pamela Anderson, Sir Paul McCartney, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, The Rev. Al Sharpton, and countless other kind people worldwide by not eating at KFC.

Watch more videos at KentuckyFriedCruelty.com.

I feel better, I have more energy on and off the set, and I have the satisfaction of knowing that I’m doing something to help stop animal suffering.

—Maggie Q

Fresh off her roles in Live Free or Die Hard and Mission: Impossible III (alongside Tom Cruise), rising star Maggie Q can only be described as hot. So it’s fitting that for her latest “role,” Maggie posed nearly nude in a bed of crimson chili peppers to spread the word that going vegetarian is the best way to “spice up your life” as well as help animals, your health, and the environment.

A vegetarian for many years, Maggie says that giving meat the boot is one of the most rewarding decisions she has ever made. “I feel better, I have more energy on and off the set, and I have the satisfaction of knowing that I’m doing something to help stop animal suffering.” As Maggie knows, factory-farmed animals are confined to dark, filthy warehouses and are deprived of everything that is natural and important to them. They routinely undergo debeaking, tail-docking, and castration—all without any pain relief. In 2006 alone, more than 11 billion cows, pigs, ducks, geese, buffaloes, rabbits, and chickens were slaughtered in China.

Animal suffering definitely isn’t hot, but Maggie is living proof that vegetarians are! Going vegetarian is also better for your health—eating meat and other animal products has been conclusively linked to heart disease, diabetes, obesity, and several types of cancer. But health benefits aside, we don’t know who wouldn’t want to eat their veggies after seeing Maggie’s sexy ads!

Ready to take Maggie’s advice and “spice up your life”? Order your free vegetarian starter kit today.

Maggie also stars in a second ad for PETA Asia-Pacific wearing a sexy bikini made entirely of strategically placed lettuce leaves next to the tagline “Turn Over a New Leaf – Try Vegetarian!”

(I was horrified to see and read for myself and just had to take immediate action to sign the petition. I hope you do as well, please…)

THE ONLY WAY TO PREVENT SUCH UNIMAGINABLE CRUELTY TO ANIMALS IS NEVER TO WEAR ANY FUR!!!!

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Join the group to sign and also sign on: http://www.animalsmatter.org/ - and spread the word!
Also look under ‘POSTED ITEMS’ if you want to help more.

The link to the undercover movie :

http://www.furisdead.com/feat/ChineseFurFarms/

When undercover investigators made their way onto Chinese fur farms recently, they found that many animals are still alive and struggling desperately when workers flip them onto their backs or hang them up by their legs or tails to skin them. When workers on these farms begin to cut the skin and fur from an animal’s leg, the free limbs kick and writhe. Workers stomp on the necks and heads of animals who struggle too hard to allow a clean cut. When the fur is finally peeled off over the animals’ heads, their naked, bloody bodies are thrown onto a pile of those who have gone before them. Some are still alive, breathing in ragged gasps and blinking slowly. Some of the animals’ hearts are still beating five to 10 minutes after they are skinned. One investigator recorded a skinned raccoon dog on the heap of carcasses who had enough strength to lift his bloodied head and stare into the camera.

Before they are skinned alive, animals are pulled from their cages and thrown to the ground; workers bludgeon them with metal rods or slam them on hard surfaces, causing broken bones and convulsions but not always immediate death. Animals watch helplessly as workers make their way down the row.

Undercover investigators from Swiss Animal Protection/EAST International recently toured fur farms in China’s Hebei Province, and it quickly became clear why outsiders are banned from visiting. There are no regulations governing fur farms in China—farmers can house and slaughter animals however they see fit—meaning miserable lives and excruciating deaths. The investigators found horrors beyond their worst imaginings and concluded, “Conditions on Chinese fur farms make a mockery of the most elementary animal welfare standards. In their lives and their unspeakable deaths, these animals have been denied even the simplest acts of kindness.”

Join the group to sign!
Contact InfoWebsite:
http://www.furisdead.com/feat/ChineseFurFarms/

HOW YOU CAN HELP

To find out how to contact the Chinese embassy in your country and write them a protestletter click here:
http://www.fmprc.gov.cn/eng/wjb/zwjg/2490/default.htm

To the people from UK - this webpage tells you how to help: http://www.respectforanimals.co.uk/home.php/facts

To the people from USA - peta also have different suggestions to how you can help:
http://www.peta.org/actioncenter/act.asp

To the people from Denmark - On this webpage:
http://www.anima.dk/kampagner/pels/kinesisk_pels/kina_pels.htm
you can order free flyers and posters. There’s also information about how help in other ways.

Because a fur’s origin can’t be traced, anyone who wears any fur at all shares the blame for the horrific conditions on Chinese fur farms. The only way to prevent such unimaginable cruelty is never to wear any fur.

Please tell everyone you know about the horrors of the fur trade by sharing this information with them and showing them the shocking undercover video.

Order PETA’s anti-fur leaflets and posters to distribute outside stores that sell fur and to share with friends, family, and coworkers who still wear fur. Order them on this webpage: http://www.furisdead.com/feat/ChineseFurFarms/
The Danish website: http://www.anima.dk/kampagner/pels/kinesisk_pels/kina_pels.htm (og de er gratis).