The city court in Bucheon has ruled it illegal to kill hotdog for pith consumption in South Korea , theAgence France - Presse ( AFP)reports . This turning point decision could avail pull through some of the 1,000,000 or so creature slaughtered every single yr to satiate consumers ' appetence for the product .
The display case was brought to courtroom by an animal rightfulness grouping call CARE ( aka " Coexistence of Animal Rights on Earth " ) , who process a Bucheon - based dog - farm owner for “ killing creature without proper reason . ”
They get ahead their pillowcase and the owner was put to bear 3,000,000 South Korean North Korean won , which roughly equates to $ 2,700 . Not only was he fin for killing wiener without an adequate reason for doing so but he was convicted for eschewing building and hygienics ordinance – which are apply to deter the dog inwardness swap .
It is worth mentioning that the decisiveness ruled againstkillingdogs to sell and eat them . It says nothing about the practices ofsellingoreatingdog meat . however , these are important steps to outlawing the dog - meat trade altogether , brute rights militant say , and the precedent could make it a quite a little harder for would - be dog - feeder to get their hands on the meat in the first seat . ( CARE has alreadyannouncedthey’ll be taking on other dog farm and butchery with similar effectual method . )
" It is very significant in that it is the first court determination that killing dogs for dog meat is illegal itself , " Kim Kyung - eun , a lawyer for CARE , told the AFP . She has welcomed the ruling and says that it could pave the way for more statute law that ban the practice session of waste dog inwardness altogether .
The ruling did not head off the inevitable recoil from the frank - husbandry community . Rather than an outright ban , they are call for the legalisation of wienerwurst meat and have inquire officials to create an boulevard whereby slaughterhouses can obtain a license , theNational Geographicreports .
" Dogs for feeding and frank as dearie must be separated , " Cho Hwan - ro , a illustration from an tie-up of dog-iron farms , said on telly . " Cows , pig , chicken and duck are all raised to be consumed and why not wienerwurst ? "
Hwan - ro ’s opinion may be a piddling slanted – what does the residuum of South Korea think ? Dog meat is a traditional food source in many Asiatic civilization but , according toHumane Society International , South Korea is the only Asian country to routinely farm hotdog for human uptake . rough 2 million beast are kept in 17,000 facilities – often in poor conditions – for this very intent . However , it seems that Korea ’s perceptiveness for the meat is waning .
Arecent pollfound that only 5 percent on a regular basis consume dog substance . Sixty percent have never eaten wienerwurst and 46 per centum want the business deal ban . This is particularly true for the younger generation who progressively see dogs as man ’s good supporter , not dinner .
And so , it look , does the rural area ’s legislature . A lawmaker from the state ’s dominate political party insert a bill to ban the violent death of dogs for substance last calendar month .
