| Latest update from IAKA
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Latest update from IAKA -
details of planned New York demo 30/05/02,
EMERGENCY email campaign (VERY time-sensitive),
and reports from demos in London, Brussels and The
Hague. View on the Bulletin Board at ITD's web
site (address at base of this email).
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| Huntingdon Life Sciences
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"Starting on Friday 14th June
there will be an act of online civil disobedience
as part of the campaign to close down Huntingdon
Life Sciences. A virtual sit-in will take place
against one or more of the companies that are
currently keeping HLS open.
Huntingdon Life
Sciences (HLS) are a UK based animal
experimentation company who have been exposed for
animal cruelty on five occasions. In 1997 Channel
Four filmed workers repeatedly punching a
four-month old puppy in the face.
A virtual
sit-in is a modern day act of civil disobedience.
The basic idea is that a large number of people
repeatedly download the website of a company who
they wish to protest against. If enough people
take part this will disrupt the company's online
presence in the same way that a large crowd of
demonstrators would disrupt their physical
presence.
More information will be posted at
http://www.huntingdonsucks.com/ecd.html
over the next few weeks."
(We are
sometimes accused by the dog eaters of not
addressing animal welfare questions in the Western
World before levelling criticism at their
"cultural cuisine".
Animal abuse is of
concern to us all, wherever it occurs.
"Huntingdon Life Sciences" is a company in
the UK that performs vivisection on living
animals.
We are pleased to be able to
forward on the above information. All of us at ITD
will be taking part in this "virtual sit-in".
Wherever you are, if you can spare an hour or
more, you can help to make a difference! If this
type of action proves to be successful, the
potential is clearly enormous for us all. -
ITD)
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| New dog meat dishes to be served at
local medicinal herb festival |
Amid the controversy over a
Korean culinary tradition, participants in a local
medicinal herb festival said they will present new
dishes featuring dog meat.
Dog meat steak
and "galbi jjim" (steamed ribs) are some of the 50
dishes to be presented at the herbal food
exhibition of the Daegu Yangyeongsi Festival that
will take place in "Yakjeon-golmok," or Herbal
Medicine Alley, in downtown Daegu for six days
until Sunday.
Choi Cheol-ho, 42, a cook
with 22 years of experience who teaches culinary
arts at two junior colleges in Daegu, said he has
developed a dog meat steak with a special herb
sauce.
After two months of research and
study, Choi's finished product comprises a dog
meat steak marinated for eight to 12 hours in a
sauce made with ginseng, jujubes and herbs, he
said.
"It is time to change the prejudices
against dog meat," Choi said. "I decided to
participate in the food exhibition to unveil a new
dish using dog meat and to encourage interested
people to develop more dog meat dishes."
Another participant, Park Mi-sook, 41, who
runs a dog meat restaurant, will present steamed
dog meat cooked with medicinal herbs.
"There is no need to conceal or be ashamed
of eating dog meat when many people favor
'bosintang' (dog meat stew) as a health food,"
said Park, the head of the Daegu branch of the
Korea Federation of Dog Meat Restaurants. "As an
owner of a dog meat restaurant, I decided to
introduce a dog meat dish to inform the public of
the need to legalize the distribution of dog
meat."
However, some organizers of the
exhibition have voiced concerns over presenting
dog meat dishes at the festival, saying it might
stir up unnecessary controversy.
(It
all sounds like a very confident attitude, doesn’t
it? Compare the “positive” facade above with the
hysteria shown by the vice-president of the South
Korean Chamber of Commerce in Australia below, as
reported in The Age, Australia, 9th May 2002 –
ITD)
The South Aus tralian Speaker,
Peter Lewis, said yesterday that an ABC radio
report on the consumption of dog meat in South
Korea was offensive. He said it would do more
damage to Australia's relations with its Asian
neighbours than anything put forward by Pauline
Hanson and would also damage trade between
Australia and South Korea.
Mr Lewis, who
is also vice-president of the South Korean Chamber
of Commerce in Australia, said he would complain
to the Equal Opportunity Commission, saying
yesterday's broadcast on the program AM, vilified
people of South Korean origin.
The program
detailed the South Korean tradition of eating dog
meat dishes, which would be offered to tourists
during the World Cup.
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| Item 1 |
IAKA/KAPS
http://www.koreananimals.org/
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| Item 2 |
ecd@huntingdonsucks.com?Subject=Virtual
Sit-in |
| Item 3 - Korea Herald |
By Lee Jae-hee Staff
reporter
2002.05.08
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