Mrs. Carmen Sylvain
Chairman of the
Executive Committee
Bureau of International
Expositions

  56 avenue Victor Hugo
75783 Paris
Cedex 15
France

Dear Mrs. Sylvain,
I am writing to urge you, and all of the members of your committee,
not to select Yeosu, South Korea, as the host city for the 2010 World
Expo, because of South Korea’s total failure to enact and enforce
strong legislation banning the torture, killing, and consumption of
companion animals, specifically dogs and cats.
Although the torture and consumption of dogs and cats is illegal
under the Korean Animal Protection Law of 1991, the dog-meat
industry still thrives in South Korea: 2.6 million dogs are tortured,
killed, and eaten every year. Not only has the South Korean
government failed to enforce its laws against this heinous practice; it
is now on the verge of amending its laws to reclassify some dogs
and cats as companion animals and others as consumption animals.
I implore you to tell the South Korean government that the Bureau
of International Exhibitions will not select South Korea to be the
host of the 2010 World Expo, until South Koreans stop eating dogs
and cats, and until the South Korean government enacts and enforces
a proper law recognizing that dogs and cats are not consumption
animals, and it bans the torture, killing, and consumption of all dogs and cats.

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