Animal Asia Appeal: South Korean Dogs to be Reclassified as ‘Livestock’
Published on October 14, 2008 by Freelance Contributors · 3 CommentsDear Friend,
South Korea Legislation Amendment – Dogs to be reclassified as livestock
There has been a lot of activity recently about the city of Seoul’s proposal to reclassify dogs as “livestock”, thereby legitimising their slaughter as “meat animals”, despite the fact that South Korea currently outlaws the sale of dog meat.
Animals Asia has received pleas from many of our supporters and requests from the Korea Animal Protection Society (KAPS) and other animal welfare groups to lend our support to those in Korea working to prevent this.
Animals Asia fully endorses their activities and protests against this legislation, which would set back by years, the progress of all animal welfare groups in Asia working to take companion animals out of the food chain.
With this in mind, we have recently sent two separate letters in support of KAPS to the Mayor of Seoul and to the President of South Korea, strongly protesting this huge backward step and stressing its potential damage to the welfare of companion animals across Asia.
Attached is a copy of a animal network posting about dog eating in Korea and the text of one of our letters – if you would like to support KAPS in this campaign please copy and forward it to:
His Excellency Mr Chun Yung-woo
South Korean Ambassador to the UK
South Korean Embassy in the UK
60 Buckingham Gate
London, SW1E 6AJ
Email: koreanembinuk@mofat.go.kr
Mayor of Seoul Mr Oh Se-hoon
Address: Euljiro1, Jung-gu, Seoul, 100-744, Korea
Email: ohsehoon@seoul.go.kr
Korean President Mr Lee Myung-bak
Address: 1 Cheongwadae-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul, Korea
Email: webmaster@president.go.kr
Thank you for your support
Best wishes
Gill Maltby
UK Projects Officer
Animals Asia Foundation
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Thank you for bringing this issue up. Shall be writing this week to support this campaign.
umm dogs are livestock here as well.
livestock just means any animal that helps to run the indstry of a farm
sheepdogs and flock guardains are livestock
Sorry emm
Dogs are not livestock in the UK, see the following Acts for examples:
Animals Act 1971
“livestock” means cattle, horses, asses, mules, hinnies, sheep, pigs, goats and poultry, and also deer not in the wild state and, in sections 3 and 9, also, while in captivity, pheasants, partridges and grouse;
Dogs (Protection of Livestock) Act 1953
“livestock” means cattle, sheep, goats, swine, horses, or poultry, and for the purposes of this definition “cattle” means bulls, cows, oxen, heifers or calves, “horses” includes asses and mules, and “poultry” means domestic fowls, turkeys, geese or ducks.