{"id":750829,"date":"2018-01-10T15:09:12","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T15:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=750829"},"modified":"2018-01-10T15:09:12","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T15:09:12","slug":"animal-rights-activists-in-south-korea-want-dog-meat-banned-before-the-winter-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=750829","title":{"rendered":"Animal Rights Activists in South Korea Want Dog Meat Banned Before the Winter Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ELI MEIXLER:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;A Korean animals rights group is calling for a ban on the sale and consumption of dog meat ahead of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics next month in South Korea. The Korea Association for Animal Protection demanded the prohibition both out of compassion for the animals and to bolster Korea\u2019s reputation on the world stage, as the practice of eating dogs \u2014 while not widespread \u2014 may alarm some international visitors, the Korea Times reported.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u201cWe wish to bring an end to Korea\u2019s dog meat-eating habit,\u201d the association said at a press conference on Jan. 3. \u201cDogs are man\u2019s best friend and we shouldn\u2019t eat them.\u201d There would be some precedent for a ban: in 1984, South Korean leader Chun Doo-hwan temporarily prohibited the sale of canine meat ahead of the 1988 Seoul Summer Olympics, according to the Times&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>IAKA estimates that dog trade generates $2 billion annually, while Korea\u2019s Statistics Information Service 2010 agriculture census reported over 100,000 farms holding 892,820 dogs, according to the Korean Observer. Other estimates put the annual toll in the millions of dogs&#8217;.<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/5087207\/south-korea-olympics-dog-meat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>FEATURED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vNeQ_x2LjM0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ELI MEIXLER: &#8216;A Korean animals rights group is calling for a ban on the sale and consumption of dog meat ahead of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics next month in South Korea. The Korea Association for Animal Protection demanded the prohibition both out of compassion for the animals and to bolster Korea\u2019s reputation on the world [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":750830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,23,25],"tags":[27,31],"class_list":["post-750829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-rights","category-welfare","tag-cruelty","tag-farming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=750829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":750831,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750829\/revisions\/750831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/750830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=750829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=750829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=750829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}