South Korea Bans Manufacturing and Sale of Canine Meat

Policymakers in South Korea voted on Jan. 9, 2024 to approve a three-year plan that may efficiently ban canine meat for human consumption by 2027.

The ban of South Korea’s canine meat commerce will possible be enforced by way of as a lot as three years of jail and financial penalties for violators, according to The Guardian. Financial assist for these engaged throughout the commerce — akin to canine meat farmers, those who slaughter canine for work, and enterprise homeowners who promote canine meat — is accessible to assist throughout the transition away from these operations, per Humane Society Worldwide (HSI).

Inexperienced Points spoke fully to Humane Society Worldwide/Korea’s End Canine Meat advertising and marketing marketing campaign supervisor Sangkyung Lee for notion into this historic info.

Per The Guardianthe ban on South Korea’s canine meat commerce handed with 208 entire votes (out of 210 voters) in help of the measure. The vote moreover seems to hint with dwindling public help of the commerce amongst South Koreans. The Korea Herald cites a survey by way of which better than 94 % of South Korean people surveyed said they hadn’t eaten canine meat beforehand yr.

“Although the amount of those who eat canine meat in South Korea is extraordinarily small, tens of tens of millions of canine have wanted to endure and die throughout the course of, so this ban will end their ache and as well as diminish even the thought in society’s ideas of consuming our companion animals,” Sangkyung Lee tells Inexperienced Points in an distinctive interview.

Nevertheless, South Korea’s Ministry of Agriculture, Meals and Rural Affairs estimates that better than 1,000 canine meat farms dwell on in South Korea, and an additional 1,600 consuming locations promote canine meat to diners. These entities will possible be anticipated to talk sometimes with South Korea officers to verify the properly timed transition away from the commerce, per ABC Datalest they be levied with a advantageous equal to roughly $2,300 USD or jail time.

Per HSI, South Korea now finds itself amongst an ever-increasing guidelines of Asian nations which have rejected the cruelties of the canine meat commerce.

“As any person who has been to canine meat farms and seen firsthand the struggling the canine endure, this ban is a very specific second,” Lee instructed Inexperienced Points. “Canine farms are ugly areas the place the canine are confined in small wire cages coated in feces, with no security in direction of the merciless components, and fed a disgusting slop fabricated from restaurant waste.”