This is the best summary I could come up with:
“Eating dog meat cannot be a crime like trafficking drugs or prostitution,” Mr Joo told a radio news talk show, according to South China Morning Post.
About a week ago, when the South Korean government announced its plan to introduce a ban on dog meat, animal rights organisations celebrated the move across the world.
“With so many dogs needlessly suffering for a meat that hardly anyone eats, the government’s bill delivers a bold plan that must now urgently be passed by the assembly so that a legislative ban can be agreed as soon as possible to help South Korea close this miserable chapter in our history and embrace a dog-friendly future,” JungAh Chae, executive director of Humane Society International, said in a statement.
South Korea’s ruling conservative People Power Party has put forth a bill suggesting a maximum penalty of five years imprisonment or fines of 50 million won ($38,000; £30,333) for individuals engaging in the dog meat trade.
The liberal Democratic Party of Korea’s bill recommends three-year jail sentences and fines reaching up to 30 million won.
“If I have to close down, with the financial condition I’m in, there really is no answer to what I can do,” Lee Kyeong-sig, who runs a farm outside Seoul raising up to 1,100 dogs, told Reuters.
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I actually have no idea how to solve this issue. Maybe a government buy-back or something? I can see pig farmers doing the same thing if we ever succeeded on that front.
Government buy back will cause a cobra effect.
Not if it’s done one time.
The real issue then is what to do with 2 million dogs.
No doubt the ban does not cover dogs that already exist.
Combining with /u/darthsid@lemmy.world
Pay families to adopt one dog by giving them all the support they need to care for and love their rescue pet.
Every family adopts a dog
Of course the crooks are making threats
“jobs tho!”
