Stop Cruelty Towards Animals in Asia

Embassy of the Republic of Korea
2450 Massachusetts Ave., NW
Washington, D.C. 20008

Dear Ambassador Lee, Tae-Sik,

We wish to complain to you about the unacceptable standards of cruelty instigated against dogs and cats in your Country.

We appreciate that while customs in your Country may differ from those in ours, what you permit as accetable in the savage brutality of those that inlict pain and hurt before finally killing the aforementioned animals is unacceptable and we shall expect that you reform your legislation on the treatment of cats and dogs and other domesticated animals.

Several Eastern politicians and segments of eastern media continue to claim that dog eating is a centuries old tradition, but in truth, Eastern cultural heritage does not include torturing and eating dogs and cats.

Boiling cats alive to make "medicine" never existed before the 1980s, when the idea was first promoted by dog dealers as a moneymaking scheme. Until the 1980s, dog eating was a back alley vice practised by men seeking to boost their sexual stamina.

Therefore, even if eating dogs and drinking cat juice were cultural traditions, isnt it time to abandon these barbaric practices that so many people around the world find disgusting, cruel and barbaric?

These repulsive practices are unnecessary. As human civilisation and cultures evolve, many nations have shed so-called "traditions" that are rooted in cruelty, suffering and subjugation. Isnt it time your Country follows suit?

However, despite how they look on the outside, all dogs suffer the same pain when they are beaten, blowtorched, hanged and electrocuted.

Please institute new laws that will protect dogs and cats from being tortured and consumed.

Failure to do will not only hurt South Koreas public image, but will perpetuate the negative stereotype of Koreans as nothing more than heartless, dog-eating barbarians and may affect trade between Korea and other Countries.