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Jacques Rogge President Executive
Board
International Olympic
Committee
Château
de Vidy
1007 Lausanne
Switzerland
Dear
Mr. Rogge,
I
am writing to urge you, and all of the members of your committee,
not
to select Pyeongchang, South Korea, as the host city for the
2010 Winter Olympics,
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
International Olympic Committee will
not select South Korea to be
the host of the 2010 Winter Olympics, 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.
Name:___________________________________________________
Address:________________________________________________
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