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pg. 2--Canine Cuisine: A Custom Or A Crime? Cats do not fare much better. In an ITN news story, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals reports that strays and former pets are boiled alive in pressure cookers to liquefy their bodies into the "cat juice" believed to heal rheumatism and other ailments. Is tradition an excuse to torture animals bred to trust and love people? Poshintang (dog soup) is marketed as age-old therapy for impotency, summer heat, and even skin rejuvenation. Representative Kim Hong-shin of the Grand National Party, Sukchan Song of the Democratic Party, and Korea's pro-dog meat lobby argue that outsiders have no right to malign their culinary practices. Yet many other cultural customs--human slavery, lynching, cannibalism, foot-binding--are deemed too barbaric for modern civilization. Dog-meat fans contend that animals experience no emotion. But they don't represent the majority of Koreans. Kim, a 32-year-old housewife, told a Korean newspaper that she accepts the argument that dog consumption is no different than cow or chicken consumption. "But I want to stress dogs' emotional closeness to humans throughout history," she says. "We have to draw the line somewhere, don't we?" WHAT YOU CAN DO: 1.) Ask the following KOREAN OFFICIALS to institute new, enforceable laws to prohibit dogs and cats from torture and consumption. President Kim, Dae-Jung Prime Minister Lee, Han-Dong Representative Ham, Suk-Jae
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