“The bill will put an end to the breeding and killing of dogs for human consumption,” said Borami Seo of Humane Society International Korea, an animal protection group. “We have reached a pivotal point to spare millions of dogs from this cruel industry.”
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In a survey released Monday by the Animal Welfare Awareness, Research and Education Foundation, a Seoul-based think tank, more than 94 percent of respondents said they had not eaten dog meat over the past year, and about 93 percent said they would not. So in the future.
Previous efforts to ban dog meat have failed in the face of industry protests, and the bill seeks to provide compensation so companies can exit the trade.
In November, a group of about 200 dog breeders organized a march near the presidential office, demanding the bill be scrapped.
