In recent days, a group of Korean meat dogs will start a whole new life in California, United States of America, under the arrangements of the International Humanitarian Association and Animal Aid. More than 100 meat dogs were able to escape their destiny and their owners received a sum of compensation and left behind. BBC journalist Stephen Evans in Seoul said that times were changing.
It is a cultural collision — sometimes quite violent and violent. On the one hand, dog-loving people (who are usually Westerners) are increasingly protesting in the dog markets in China, Vietnam and South Korea; on the other hand, dog-sellers and dog farmers are protesting because they affect their livelihoods. Many Asians are unsatisfied with Western hypocrisy. "You eat lamb, you eat beef, you eat chicken," they asked, "What's the difference between eating dog meat?"
Basically, it's chicken to duck. But this week, chicken and duck really made peace. Western dog-lovers and Korean dog vendors reached an agreement that a farmer would release more than a hundred dogs he raised, and that, as compensation, HAI and Animal Aid would pay him a sum of cash and plan a different career for him.
The dogs were vaccinated a month ago and from Tuesday onwards will be flying to their new home in California, United States.
And the Korean farmer signed a legal document, and his subsequent actions will be monitored to make sure he doesn't go back to his old profession. - Not just selling dog meat, but not any profession related to animal slaughter.
He also agreed to persuade other farmers who lived by selling meat dogs and to encourage them to put down their knives. These people are highly suspicious and listen to their own people.
It is not known how much compensation has been specifically awarded to him, but there is a floating estimate ranging from US$ 2,000 to 60,000 (approximately RMB 12,000 to 380,000). Depending on its transition: do we tear down the dog shed or buy seeds to grow crops?
“Our goal is to shut down all of Korea's dog and meat markets,” Laura Weber, founder of Animal Aid, said she was an Englishman and was the promoter of this rescue dog project. “It is the Korean dog and meat industry itself that we are working together to achieve its goals.”