The largest dog meat market in South Korea closes: it will become a public park

It used to be South Korea's most important meat market where dogs were raised in precarious conditions and then killed and destined for food, but finally next month this horror farm will close and become a public park.

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It used to be South Korea's most important meat market where dogs were raised in precarious conditions and then killed and destined for food, but finally next month this horror farm will close and become a public park.





Good news from South Korea's sellers Gupo Livestock Market in Busan they finally reached an agreement with the local authorities to close the market and asked the animal welfare organizations to rescue the dogs, which would have become slaughter fodder to order.

The market, as we said, is famous because it hosts 19 vendors who breed dogs destined to become meat on the table. After years of battles, Humane Society International (HSI) is finally celebrating, especially as the market will become a public park.

The closure is part of an ambitious urban redevelopment project and is only the latest of the alarm bells on a market, that of the dog meat trade, in decline. On the other hand, the Yulin Festival is now condemned all over the world and meat consumption has also decreased significantly, just think that last year in Seongnam the largest dog slaughterhouse in the country was closed.

The largest dog meat market in South Korea closes: it will become a public park

A dog is shown locked in a cage at a dog meat farm in Namyangju, South Korea, on Monday, May 7, 2018. The operation is part of HSIs efforts to fight the dog meat trade throughout Asia. In South Korea, the campaign includes working to raise awareness among Koreans about the plight of meat dogs being no different from the animals more and more of them are keeping as pets.

Public opinion can tolerate no more than 10 thousand cats and dogs, many of which were captured on the street or kidnapped from their homes, after days spent huddled together in very small cages with their faces often tied with a rope to avoid complaints or that bite each other, are boiled alive, beaten to death or even skinned alive.



“The closure plan is the result of months of hard work between local authorities and market vendors, and both sides are to be commended for achieving the goal that will not only bring the end of the Gupo slaughterhouse, but will also see the 'regenerated area with new services and commercial activities to benefit the modern local economy, ”says Nara Kim, a dog meat activist for HSI.

The largest dog meat market in South Korea closes: it will become a public park

The numbers of the massacre

Approximately 2 million dogs are raised each year across South Korea in tiny cages, where they live their entire lives developing robotic behaviors.


According to HSI, electrocution death is the most common method, but hanging is also performed. But this is one of the many steps to finally say goodbye to this cruel practice.

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Dominella Trunfio

Photo: HSI

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