Original title: Seoul, South Korea completely stopped dog slaughtering: the mayor ordered 11 dog slaughterhouses to close!
Overseas network, October 24 (Xinhua) according to Yonhap, the Seoul municipal government reported on the 24th that the last three dog slaughtering farms in Seoul closed this month and dog slaughtering stopped completely.
In July 2018, many American Actresses demonstrated in front of the Korean Consulate to protest against eating dog meat.
South Korea has the custom of drinking dog meat soup in dog days. However, this dietary tradition once regarded as nourishing the body is now under increasing pressure. Not only is the international community controversial about the phenomenon of eating dog meat, but even Korean society is constantly reflecting on its own culture, and there are protests and appeals against eating dog meat one after another.
Yonhap said that of the original 11 dog slaughterhouses in Seoul, three closed in 2017, five closed successively, and the remaining three also stopped operation this month.
On the 26th of this month, Seoul mayor Park Yuen Chun will attend the activity of "walking Nanshan with his partner dog" and declare Seoul a "city without dog slaughterhouse". He watched the movie "undercog" with stray dogs as the theme in February this year, and then promised that there would be no more dog slaughterhouses in Seoul.
The report said that for a long time, South Korean animal protection organizations and citizens have been asking dog slaughterhouses to stop operations, but according to South Korea's current law, the government has no right to intervene as long as the slaughtering method adopted by dog slaughterhouses is legal. To this end, Seoul, together with the district governments, has made unremitting efforts to persuade the dog slaughterhouse to stop operation.
Seoul mayor Park won Chun said that after years of persuasion, there will be no dog slaughtering in Seoul from this month. If it happens again in the future, all means will be taken to stop it