The Killing
There is little doubt that the South Koreans are a very imaginative and inventive people, as has been proven through their technological advances in their manufacturing processes in recent years. A sick and perverse minority however insist in utilising this inventiveness in their torture of animals. Their patience can be extraordinary, in that they can systematically torture a dog for an hour or more before it finally dies in agony. An old English saying is "The proof of the pudding is in the eating", and this is the test by which a dog-butcher measures his handywork. If he manages to get a penile erection after eating his victim's flesh, then he knows that he has done a good job........The Spanish Inquisition and the Gestapo could have learned a lot from these people. In the same way that the Gestapo were not representative of the German People, these animal abusers are not typical Koreans. Their tolerance of these practices however does the Koreans little credit.
"The reason why dogs are beaten for so long is that there is a belief that the slower & more painful the death is, the more potent the dog's meat will be. Killing the dog slowly causes the dog's adrenaline to flow, & this flow of adrenaline throughout the dog is believed to increase the aphrodisiac power of the meat. While the dog is slowly being killed, it is of course screaming in pain, and trying to resist the grip of the man doing the killing. One method is to tie the dog from his hind legs upside down. (All other accounts say that the dog is hung from the neck). The man or men than beat the dog's body all over with clubs or bats. Beating it this way is said to do 2 things. One is to increase the flow of adrenalin and the other is to tenderize the meat. While the dog is being beaten, it gets to the point where it urinates and defecates on itself, and the urine & feces typically flow down the dog's body, getting in it's eyes and causing more pain. Eventually, during this intensive beating, blood flows out of the dog's mouth and nose due to internal bleeding, and it finally dies. This beating process has no set time....It can be a few minutes or it can take an hour, depending on the man doing the killing and how much he is into the belief that beating it slowly is best for a quality aphrodisiac. I hope this clarifies why the dogs are beaten first. In a large facility, the dogs may not be hung by their hind legs. Instead the man enters the large dog cage, selects the dog, grabs it, and while holding it by the neck, begins to beat it in the head in order to crush the skull. Of course, there are so many methods of beating the dogs because there is no regulation on this."
 This poor creature thinks that she has no reason to fear and so doesn't struggle as the noose is put around her neck. He is her master, after all. Perhaps her trust was misplaced. She does live in Korea. Or at least, she did. The rope is pulled tight. She twists and frantically tries to bite at the rope that is slowly stealing her life. Ironically, these animals are so trusting that she probably doesn't even realise that her "master" is responsible for her suffering.  Inevitably, her struggles are in vain and she slowly chokes to death. After being left covered by burning straw for a while, the hellish barbecue is ready. Although cats are eaten in South Korea, it is more usual for them to be rendered into a "medicine" to treat rheumatism and arthritis. Unlike dogs, cats are not bred on specialist farms. This would not be cost effective when there are always starving strays. These are collected in sacks and, if lucky, are beaten to death with either a stick or hammer blows to the head. More commonly, they are boiled alive with herbs (sometimes after having their limbs broken to reduce their ability to struggle) until their flesh liquifies. The resulting "liquid cat" (known as "Goyangi soju") is then sold in small sachets. An average size cat, when cooked with dates, herbs and chestnuts, will produce 20-25 of these sachets. The following is an eye-witness account, reported to the Korean Animal Protection Society (KAPS) by one of its members, Miss Mun Juyoung. "While passing by the Kyoung-il Health Food Restaurant, Miss Mun looked in through the window and saw a middle aged women walking slowly among the rows of hissing and boiling cauldrons. In her arms she held a cat, who seemed undisturbed by the water on the floor or the stream so thick in the air. Stopping at one of the hot kettles, the women sniffed once and dropped the cat in to the boiling water. Hideously scalded by the boiling water the cat screamed and clawed its way out but, the blank-faced woman, pushed it back in the water with a stick over and over again until the cat finally lost consciousness. The woman fished it out once more, the cat mewing and whimpering in pain, whereupon the woman pushed it back in for the final time." This horrific VIDEO was supplied by www.thenausea.com. Please be aware that it is very disturbing.  1) Cages of despair - cats and kittens waiting to be boiled alive. 2) Next in turn - tied next to a large cauldron of boiling water.  3) Pressure cookers used to make "Goyangi soju" (liquid cat). 4) Dumped unceremoniously on the floor to cool.  5) The victims pile up. 6) Finally the butchery.
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