The Dog Meat Festival of October, 2003.

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Dog Meat
The purpose of this section of our Web site is to show people who are not familiar with Korean food, Seoul, and South Korea in general, what a dog meat farm is, what it looks like, what types of conditions the dogs being kept in such a farm live with, and to address the issue of people eating dog. Note: According to the Korean Society for the Protection of Animals, Koreans do go around in neighborhoods, find "edible" dogs, steal them and sell them for their meat. This is in Korea, we do not know of this going on outside of Korea. If you have a large dog with you in Korea, lock it up and keep it inside. It may be stolen, as dog meat is very profitable.

People in South Korea eat dogs and cats. People in India do not believe in eating cows and are horrified at the way cows are treated in the U.S. As one travels around the world you are bound to encounter things that you perceive as abnormal or unacceptable. Our goal is to show you what we found on 01 July 2002 at a local dog farm near Seoul. We are not making fun of eating dogs, and we are not making fun of the people, customs, culture or cuisine of Seoul or South Korea. As you look at these photographs, consider issues like animal rights. This is provided for informational purposes only.

Because dog meat is expensive, the people in rural areas raise and kill the dogs themselves; or steal them. Several places in South Korea serve dog as a regular part of the menu. It is common. What the staff of SeoulSearching.com did not like about this dog farm were the conditions by which the dogs were kept. Frankly the place was a nasty, stinking mess. Dogs were in hot, dirty and cramped conditions. Fecal matter and urine were running away from the facility. Flies were everywhere. The dogs smelled bad. They were in poor condition with little or no food, and dirty water. We saw piles of dog fecal matter next to freezers that contained butchered dogs, and other areas that were used for cooking dogs. We saw refrigerated trucks used to transport dog meat to various markets and restaurants. We saw dogs being killed, and dogs barking and crying as other dogs near them were being killed by very slow and primitive means.

If South Korea needs to continue with dog meat operations, they need to clean up their act and maybe follow some improved protocol concerning how dogs are kept, cared for, and killed. Our information has been sent to other animal rights organizations for their input, comments, suggestions, or actions if any. Some personnel at SeoulSearching.com have unfortunately witnessed cats being boiled alive recently. The scene was disturbing. These practices need to change. If you want to eat dog, fine. Just make sure you know where it came from. Would you eat any meat covered with flies and maggots locked inside of luke warm coolers next to large piles of dog fecal matter with a river of urine running around it?

Click the button to watch this video of this animal shelter in Korea.

Here are resources that you can use to put in your two cents and learn more about the dog meat industry.

Dog Brutality - Protest against bad conditions for dogs.

It's Their Destiny - A Web site exposing cruel and unsanitary conditions for animals in South Korea.

Korea Animal Protection Society - A grassroots animal rights movement in Korea.

Anti-Dog meat Movement Headquarters - Dog meat farms in Korea and other counties. Heartbreaking and sickening photos of dogs being painfully slaughtered. Detailed documentation of how dogs are treated before dying.

Tegendierenleed - Animal watchdog group out of the Netherlands.

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