Lady Freethinker has extended our dog meat awareness ad campaign in South Korea for another six months.
At the end of 2018, LFT began sponsoring the two bus ads in the city of Gimpo, nicknamed “The Valley of Dog Meat in South Korea.” Messages on the ads, which were created in cooperation with the Gimpo-based animal rescue organization Save Korean Dogs, translate to “Dogs are not food but family,” and “Please do not eat me.”
The decision to continue the campaign stems from the need for continued pressure against consuming dog meat in Gimpo, as well as the success of the program thus far. Citizens of Gimpo, including grocery store and pharmacy employees, have responded positively to the ads, according to Nami Kim, founder of Save Korean Dogs.
“We are pleased to continue sponsoring a campaign that has garnered major attention and sends the message every day that we should love dogs as family, not kill them for food,” stated Nina Jackel, founder of Lady Freethinker. “As evidenced by the closure of dog meat markets across the nation, South Korea’s citizens are no longer willing to tolerate the cruelty of the dog meat trade, and public perception is changing.”
In addition to our ad campaign against dog meat, a petition effort by LFT and Save Korean Dogs was delivered to Gimpo Mayor Ha-young Jung on Monday, calling for a ban on dog farms within the city. The petition garnered over 60,000 signatures.
Around two million dogs are brutally slaughtered annually for human consumption throughout Korea’s thousands of dog meat farms. Due to the woefully misguided belief that torturing dogs makes their meat taste better, many are electrocuted, hung, or torched alive.
Along with bus ads, petitions and widespread media attention to help end the brutal dog meat trade in China and Korea, LFT provides assistance for animals in desperate situations across Asia, working directly with rescuers on the ground and helping with costs such as veterinary care, food, and shelter. LFT facilitated the rescue of 32 dogs from the Yulin Dog Meat Festival in 2019, and continues to support their care.
Please sign our petitions to ban the cruel dog and cat meat industry for good:
Sign the Petition: Stop China’s Horrific Yulin Dog Meat Festival
Hi. I want to donate to the SKD bus campaign. Is there a way to earmark my donation so that it is used only for that? I believe that rescuing individual dogs is important but I want my money to have a more “upstream” impact. Thanks.
Il faut vraiment être un barbare pour faire souffrir un animal!
WISE DECISION by LFT — We MUST DO whatever it takes to ELIMINATE DOG/CAT MEAT from humans’ menus.
Cruelty needs to STOP!
I wish With your help and other people help in the future it won’t be cruelty to cats and dogs we love them very much they are our family .
It’s my pleasure to read it’s been some changes done to cruelty our furry friends .
They all have the right to live otherwise they wouldn’t exist in the first place, so respect them and protect them.
Thank you LFT to running this ads for awareness to end this horrific and inhumane act of eating dogs!
What in the hell is the matter with these Asian people overseas. Why is it that torture and abuse just seems to be your daily activities and you think nothing of the pain and suffering you are doing to these poor dogs and then to eat them. OMG this is just so barbaric – this needs to end and these people and these countries need to get on board to stop this incredibly horrible act of violence. You are a despicable race of people – how horrible for all of these poor dogs. Jesus H Christ wake up you bastards and stop killing off these poor animals.