SEOUL – An umbrella group for these within the canine meat trade in South Korea has vowed to carry a protest on Nov 30 towards the government’s move to ban dog meat consumption, whereas allegedly threatening to launch two million dogs across the presidential workplace in Yongsan-gu, Seoul.
Daehan Yukgyeon Hyephoi (Dog Meat Federation), a gaggle consisting of canine meat farm operators and canine meat restaurant house owners throughout the nation, has just lately determined to carry a protest in entrance of the War Memorial of Korea in Yongsan, simply throughout the road from the workplace of President Yoon Suk Yeol.
The group has warned they’ll launch the dogs in Yongsan and in entrance of Agriculture Minister Chung Hwang-keun’s residence in South Chungcheong Province.
“Each participant will be there with at least one dog (at the protest). Whether or not the dogs will be released will be left to the discretion of each participant,” the group advised native media.
The Yoon authorities and ruling social gathering are taking pictures to suggest laws that will ban canine meat gross sales by 2027, which is when Yoon’s time period is ready to finish.
The particular invoice will outlaw farming dogs for meat, slaughtering them, distributing the meat, eating places and any businesses associated to canine meat. Violators of the proposed regulation can be topic to legal punishment.
If the particular invoice passes within the National Assembly, these within the canine meat trade can be granted a three-year grace interval.
The authorities’s drive to finish canine meat consumption, backed feverishly by first woman Kim Keon Hee, has touched off controversy in South Korea, the place consuming canine just isn’t frequent however has by no means been restricted by regulation.
An August 2022 ballot by Gallup Korea on 1,514 adults throughout the nation confirmed that 85.5 % of respondents don’t eat canine meat, whereas 80.7 per cent mentioned they by no means plan to.
A government-civilian committee launched final yr on the laws of a canine meat ban researched throughout the nation to seek out that there are 1,156 farms in South Korea breeding canine for meat, and a few 1,600 eating places right here eat an annual common of 388,000 dogs.
Over half of South Koreans — 55.8 per cent — suppose that consuming canine meat ought to be discontinued, whereas 28.4 per cent thought the follow ought to proceed as-is, the aforementioned Gallup ballot confirmed.
Those within the canine meat trade say that the federal government plan lacks any particular measures to assist them to transition to different livelihoods if the invoice is handed.
The Dog Meat Federation has urged the federal government at minimal to postpone the plan in the interim, as nearly all of the these concerned within the trade are a minimum of of their 60s and close to retirement. THE KOREA HERALD/ASIA NEWS NETWORK
