34 canine arrive in U.S. after being rescued from South Korean canine meat farm

WASHINGTON, D.C. – 34 canine arrived at Washington Dulles Worldwide Airport from South Korea the place they have been rescued from the canine meat business by Humane Society Worldwide/Korea and its companions.

Romeo, Nuri, Daisy, Phoenix, Brown Bear and the opposite canine coming to the U.S. will likely be cared for at a care and rehabilitation heart operated by HSI and the Humane Society of the US. They are going to obtain the love and luxury that the canine meat business denied them, together with beds, a nutritious weight-reduction plan, enrichment and veterinary care.

Ultimately, the canine will likely be transferred to the HSUS’s shelter and rescue companions the place they are going to be prepared for adoption into loving houses.

As much as an estimated 1 million canine a yr are killed for meat in South Korea, intensively bred on farms the place they’re locked in barren, steel cages with out water or correct meals, dwelling in squalid circumstances, many affected by malnutrition and painful pores and skin and eye illnesses. Most are brutally slaughtered at round one yr of age, normally by electrocution.

Sangkyung Lee, canine meat campaigner for Humane Society Worldwide/Korea, mentioned: “For these canine flying to the US, South Korea’s canine meat business will quickly be a distant reminiscence. However a whole lot of 1000’s of different canine are nonetheless languishing in horrible circumstances on canine meat farms for a meat that only a few Koreans need to eat and most need banned.

It’s now been one yr for the reason that South Korean authorities acknowledged the necessity for a canine meat activity drive, and humane officers are nonetheless no nearer to ending this merciless business.

Jeffrey Flocken, president of Humane Society Worldwide, mentioned: “As a proud mother or father of a canine rescued in 2019 from the fifteenth farm Humane Society Worldwide helped transition out of canine meat business, I do know these canine can turn out to be great additions to a household. All these almost three dozen canine wanted was the possibility to be saved from the canine meat business, and that was made attainable by HSI’s incredible groups and companions on-the-ground in South Korea and right here in the US.”

Kitty Block, president and CEO of the Humane Society of the US and CEO of Humane Society Worldwide, mentioned: “It’s a testomony to the professionalism and effectiveness of our employees and animal advocate companions in South Korea that native authorities there are working extra steadily with us to assist coordinate take care of canine saved from the meat commerce. As these rescued canine arrive in the US and transfer into our rehabilitation heart, we sit up for the subsequent chapter: getting ready them to be adopted into loving houses the place they’ll lastly take pleasure in life as all canine ought to.”

As these canine begin new lives, Humane Society Worldwide says they are going to proceed to marketing campaign for an finish to the canine meat business. Since 2015, HSI/Korea’s Fashions for Change program has helped canine farmers in South Korea transition to new, extra humane and worthwhile livelihoods similar to chili plant and parsley rising or water truck supply. HSI/Korea has completely closed 17 canine meat farms and rescued greater than 2,500 canine who discover adoptive houses in the US, Canada and the UK, with a small quantity rehomed in South Korea.

An opinion survey by Nielsen Korea printed and commissioned by HSI/Korea in October this yr, exhibits that 85% of Koreans say they’ve by no means eaten canine meat or won’t accomplish that sooner or later. As well as, 56% of individuals mentioned they assist a canine meat ban.