US Olympic Skier Gus Kenworthy Rescued 90 Dogs From Korean Dog Meat Farm
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Gus Kenworthy, 26, is an American freestyle skier from Colorado who recently made headlines after rescuing 90 dogs from a dog meat farm in South Korea while participating in 2018 Winter Olympics.
In 2014, during the Sochi Winter Olympics, Gus found two stray puppies near the Olympic Village and had to go through a long process to get them to America with him and now he took upon himself to save even more dogs.
“This morning Matt and I had a heart-wrenching visit to one of the 17,000 dog farms here in South Korea,” he wrote on Instagram. “Across the country, there are 2.5 million dogs being raised for food in some of the most disturbing conditions imaginable. Yes, there is an argument to be made that eating dogs is a part of Korean culture. And, while don’t personally agree with it, I do agree that it’s not my place to impose western ideals on the people here. The way these animals are being treated, however, is completely inhumane and culture should never be a scapegoat for cruelty. Despite the beliefs of some, these dogs are no different from the ones we call pets back home.”
Together with his boyfriend Matt, Gus decided to take one of the dogs home. “I adopted the sweet baby in the first pic (we named her Beemo) and she’ll be coming to the US to live with me as soon as she’s through with her vaccinations in a short couple of weeks. I cannot wait to give her the best life possible!” 90 other dogs from the farm are taken from the facility to the United States and Canada for adoption with the help of Humane Society International.
Even though there are many more pups in bad conditions, every little attempt to help counts and it’s so great that there are some amazing people, like Gus, who use their platform to spread awareness and help.
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Gus Kenworthy, 26, is an American freestyle skier from Colorado
He recently made headlines after rescuing 90 dogs from a dog meat farm in South Korea while participating in 2018 Winter Olympics
“This morning Matt and I had a heart-wrenching visit to one of the 17,000 dog farms here in South Korea,” he wrote on Instagram
“Across the country, there are 2.5 million dogs being raised for food in some of the most disturbing conditions imaginable”
“Yes, there is an argument to be made that eating dogs is a part of Korean culture”
“And, while don’t personally agree with it, I do agree that it’s not my place to impose western ideals on the people here”
“The way these animals are being treated, however, is completely inhumane and culture should never be a scapegoat for cruelty”
“Despite the beliefs of some, these dogs are no different from the ones we call pets back home”
Together with his boyfriend Matt, Gus decided to take one of the dogs home and named her Beemo
“She’ll be coming to the US to live with me as soon as she’s through with her vaccinations in a short couple of weeks”
“I cannot wait to give her the best life possible!”
90 other dogs from the farm are taken from the facility to the United States and Canada for adoption with the help of Humane Society International
It’s so great that there are some amazing people, like Gus, who use their platform to spread awareness and help
We need more people like Gus in this world!
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Don't forget that almost every single piece of meat we eat comes from animals treated in the most terrible and disgusting way before being killed. The main difference to most of us: If it's a cow or a pig or a chicken nobody really cares.
I agree. This is why my family and I have made a choice to abstain from eating meat.
No, plants don't have feelings. They are biologically incapable lacking a nervous system, hormonal system and a brain. Eating meat isn't a sin or a crime if done responsibly by eating only small amounts from reliable, sustainable and ethical sources. Some species, such as ourselves, have evolved eating meat as part of an omnivorous diet and it is unhealthy to eat to much or none at all. But seriously, plants have feelings too? Spare me your non-science nonsense.
With all due respect, I speak as a Plant Scientist with a Masters and working on a PhD in plant interactions with each other and their environment. They do not have feelings. They cannot feel love or anger or sadness. They respond to their environment with something less than instinct, just like when your pupil dilates in your eye in response to light it isn't dilating due to fear etc., it's a biological response. Yes, chemicals released into the soil by one plant can sometimes be detected by another, this is termed communication because information from one plant is passed to another. They are not talking or sharing or bffs.
Hazel, plants interact with their environment and with each other and always act with purpose - they respond to changes in their environment that might affect their survival, they're not defenseless. "Feelings" is definitely a huge stretch, but having a different anatomy from animals doesn't mean they don't feel anything, they just do it differently from us. We're still debating whether fish and insects are capable of feeling pain and suffering, so everything is pretty relative.
Plants have feelings, too. Humans are just not in touch enough with nature to sense it.
there is free range, they're treated better and taste nicer, better quality control, at least the proper free range and not the ones that just claim to be
it really depends on your own personal beliefs in that case, as well as if it's legal in the area. I personally am not a fan of the idea but if someone else is then I won't argue with them, we are all entitled to our own tastes and beliefs.
They still get killed in the end don't they? Would you think eating dogs is okay if they are free range?
This is why I eat meat from farmers who actuallh treat the animals nicely, since there are only a few being raised at a time.
Claire Shamgochian It depends on the country. In Finland our cattle for example get a really easy painless death. I know because my dad is in the business and I've seen countless cows and pigs die. Trust me, they don't know what's coming for them and they don't feel a thing: the best way to go.
I don't really think it could be considered to be treated "nicely" if end the end the animals have a very painful death (I have looked into it and it is not as painless as you would hope).
Exactly. As long as animals are treated like trash it's better to eat as little meat as possible.
this is why I am vegan!
Just what I was about to say
I abhor the way farm animals are treated in the US, and this is why I have been vegan for over 30 yrs. However, the difference here is, that these people STRIVE for the MOST TORTUROUS conditions possible for the dog that they are slaughtered. A horrific and drawn out death (which I won't detail, as its gruesome..google it), WILLFULLY chosen by the humans, as these barbarians believe that the more tortured a dog, the more "tasty" the meat will be. This is a level of insanity, psychosis, and cruelty that is SPECIFIC to dog farms in Asia- South Korea, North Korea, and China), and the barbaric monsters who run them and profit by them. In the name of humanity and decency, these places- and the people who run them- should be shut down forever. We have gone to war for less. We should not be doing any trade with China and S.Korea, as long as these hideously barbaric tortures against intelligent, conscious, caring creatures- dogs- continues.
RIGHT???????? The hypocrisy is unbelievable to me. I applaud what he's done but it also seems so hypocritical that people whi are praising him eat meat that's been subjected to some of the worst conditions anyone could possibly suffer. I mean...even lab mice receive better treatment than meat and meat products *sigh* Idk how to change this........
You know what? I'm not a vegetarian or vegan. I eat meat. But I head THAT exact thought just go through my head. I may have to do some thinking.
A dose of reality: get your facts straight please... Welcome to Finland where animals are treated properly. Don't talk like every country is the same
Just about to say that!
This is in the wrong place. My reply is all over here though I only replied to one comment! So annoying!
This is in the wrong place.
Sorry, this is in the wrong place.
Clearly you have never looked at Esther the wonder pig's instagram!!!
I don't keep antelopes as pets, cows neither. Not the same relationship
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Don't forget in front of normal society farm animal is cow, pig, chicken and goat. 🐕 🐈 are not farm animal. Remember this article about 🐕 , and dogs farm are not normal in front of eyes many society
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completely untrue
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Don't lie; many animals are NOT mistreated before being butchered. Some animals are simply NOT as cuddly, cute and adorable as dogs. If you haven't built a relationship with an animal it is not so hard to eat them.
The vast majority of the 10 billion animals slaughtered annually for meat and raised for dairy ARE in fact mistreated (not to mention the immense environmental impact). Further, even if an animal is not "cuddly" or "cute," this still doesn't make it ok to hurt them. If you have a smidgeon of empathy for the pain and suffering of others, it is very easy to stop participating. I know, I was raised in meat-loving Germany and have been vegan for 20 years.
Have you done any research before making this claim? Watched any videos? Read any book? Done anything than guess and hope you are right? The truth is (and I have done a lot of research) most farm animals are abused plain and simple. I would rather die than live for even a month in the conditions of a factory farm animal.
Claire Shamgochian - I have been researching/seeing/reading/watching farm animals/videos for nigh onto 60 years; of course factory-farm animals don't get the same treatment as non-factory animals! Wild animals don't have it any better than most factory-farm animals where I live; no human wants to live like that.
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Peta cares
Peta would rather see all those dogs put down than adopted out. They don't want to save animals, they want to "liberate" them from all human involvement, including keeping pets. People drop pets off to them, thinking they'll be rehomed, but Peta puts them down instead.
PETA is one fucked up mess. Fuck PETA
Peta has on their about us page tat they wish the keeping of pets never existed, that the concept of pets is just selfishness and all pets are suffering. Peta's co-founder believes pets are in an abysmal situation and pets must be stopped. They kill over 90% of the cats and dogs they take in, they've stolen people's pets from their yards and porches and killed them, they take in strays and immediately kill them on the back of a van instead of waiting the legal time period required for strays. In some places their facilities are barred from being called an animal shelter as in some cases they only adopted out 3% of their animals and killed the other 97%.
C.Marrero - correct that PETA does not want people to own pets, and sadly they hide the fact that they do not actually care about the animals, they just care about getting people to stop owning animals for pets/food/leather/fur/etc.
I care..
Ellso so are you saying that peta doesn't even want people to own pets
C. Marreto, sounds like a logo... And YES, they do!
So dogs in Korea are raised in cruelty. Which is the difference of USA chicken, European turkey or other animal that are raisen in other countries?
Laws.You'll find a pig raised in the US and a pig raised in the EU are covered b different sets of laws. In the EU, it is much much more humane, in the US it is disgusting.
As a european, i have to sadly disagree. We displace our meat industries knowingly into countries were the laws are less respected and the production is cheaper. Win win for the producers: same conditions and even cheaper. Shame for everyone else though. The mass shelters abiding to the laws are still less than humane too thouh
I wouldn't sign that. Scandals are piling up.
None. Only dogs are cutter and people love them more and so they think this is horrible (which it is!) but eating other animals that were raised in worse conditions is fine!
Are we saying chickens & turkeys are as cognitively intelligent as say a dog? I think not and I eat meat but only occasionally & rarely beef. If lab grown meat gains acceptance perhaps mankind can leave this meat industry in the past. And adopt a puppy or kitten from a shelter! Breeders are another nasty industry!
Actually, studies have shown that for example pigs are smarter than dogs! Chickens are great at solving problems and have a very complex way of communicating with one another. Also: who are we to say that it's okay to kill an animal if it's less intelligent? The only difference is our perspective!
So eating dog is animal cruelty but eating pig, chicken, cow are not?
I think the point of the article is that the conditions the dogs were kept in is animal cruelty. Given that it also says he didn't want to impose western culture on them, so the idea o eating dog was ew to him, but he didn't say to them that eating dog is cruelty.
Dogs are different. They have been bred as companion animals and have different sorts of relationships with humans. That doesn't mean that it is ok to raise livestock in inhumane conditions, but it means that eating dogs is inherently wrong even if they are treated well.
not these dogs, these dogs bred for "consumption" not for companion. yes eating dogs is wrong, but there is nothing wrong with eating dogs meat. just like any other meat, including plants "meat"!....
You're adding something to this article that wasn't there.
Don't forget that almost every single piece of meat we eat comes from animals treated in the most terrible and disgusting way before being killed. The main difference to most of us: If it's a cow or a pig or a chicken nobody really cares.
I agree. This is why my family and I have made a choice to abstain from eating meat.
No, plants don't have feelings. They are biologically incapable lacking a nervous system, hormonal system and a brain. Eating meat isn't a sin or a crime if done responsibly by eating only small amounts from reliable, sustainable and ethical sources. Some species, such as ourselves, have evolved eating meat as part of an omnivorous diet and it is unhealthy to eat to much or none at all. But seriously, plants have feelings too? Spare me your non-science nonsense.
With all due respect, I speak as a Plant Scientist with a Masters and working on a PhD in plant interactions with each other and their environment. They do not have feelings. They cannot feel love or anger or sadness. They respond to their environment with something less than instinct, just like when your pupil dilates in your eye in response to light it isn't dilating due to fear etc., it's a biological response. Yes, chemicals released into the soil by one plant can sometimes be detected by another, this is termed communication because information from one plant is passed to another. They are not talking or sharing or bffs.
Hazel, plants interact with their environment and with each other and always act with purpose - they respond to changes in their environment that might affect their survival, they're not defenseless. "Feelings" is definitely a huge stretch, but having a different anatomy from animals doesn't mean they don't feel anything, they just do it differently from us. We're still debating whether fish and insects are capable of feeling pain and suffering, so everything is pretty relative.
Plants have feelings, too. Humans are just not in touch enough with nature to sense it.
there is free range, they're treated better and taste nicer, better quality control, at least the proper free range and not the ones that just claim to be
it really depends on your own personal beliefs in that case, as well as if it's legal in the area. I personally am not a fan of the idea but if someone else is then I won't argue with them, we are all entitled to our own tastes and beliefs.
They still get killed in the end don't they? Would you think eating dogs is okay if they are free range?
This is why I eat meat from farmers who actuallh treat the animals nicely, since there are only a few being raised at a time.
Claire Shamgochian It depends on the country. In Finland our cattle for example get a really easy painless death. I know because my dad is in the business and I've seen countless cows and pigs die. Trust me, they don't know what's coming for them and they don't feel a thing: the best way to go.
I don't really think it could be considered to be treated "nicely" if end the end the animals have a very painful death (I have looked into it and it is not as painless as you would hope).
Exactly. As long as animals are treated like trash it's better to eat as little meat as possible.
this is why I am vegan!
Just what I was about to say
I abhor the way farm animals are treated in the US, and this is why I have been vegan for over 30 yrs. However, the difference here is, that these people STRIVE for the MOST TORTUROUS conditions possible for the dog that they are slaughtered. A horrific and drawn out death (which I won't detail, as its gruesome..google it), WILLFULLY chosen by the humans, as these barbarians believe that the more tortured a dog, the more "tasty" the meat will be. This is a level of insanity, psychosis, and cruelty that is SPECIFIC to dog farms in Asia- South Korea, North Korea, and China), and the barbaric monsters who run them and profit by them. In the name of humanity and decency, these places- and the people who run them- should be shut down forever. We have gone to war for less. We should not be doing any trade with China and S.Korea, as long as these hideously barbaric tortures against intelligent, conscious, caring creatures- dogs- continues.
RIGHT???????? The hypocrisy is unbelievable to me. I applaud what he's done but it also seems so hypocritical that people whi are praising him eat meat that's been subjected to some of the worst conditions anyone could possibly suffer. I mean...even lab mice receive better treatment than meat and meat products *sigh* Idk how to change this........
You know what? I'm not a vegetarian or vegan. I eat meat. But I head THAT exact thought just go through my head. I may have to do some thinking.
A dose of reality: get your facts straight please... Welcome to Finland where animals are treated properly. Don't talk like every country is the same
Just about to say that!
This is in the wrong place. My reply is all over here though I only replied to one comment! So annoying!
This is in the wrong place.
Sorry, this is in the wrong place.
Clearly you have never looked at Esther the wonder pig's instagram!!!
I don't keep antelopes as pets, cows neither. Not the same relationship
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
Don't forget in front of normal society farm animal is cow, pig, chicken and goat. 🐕 🐈 are not farm animal. Remember this article about 🐕 , and dogs farm are not normal in front of eyes many society
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
completely untrue
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
Don't lie; many animals are NOT mistreated before being butchered. Some animals are simply NOT as cuddly, cute and adorable as dogs. If you haven't built a relationship with an animal it is not so hard to eat them.
The vast majority of the 10 billion animals slaughtered annually for meat and raised for dairy ARE in fact mistreated (not to mention the immense environmental impact). Further, even if an animal is not "cuddly" or "cute," this still doesn't make it ok to hurt them. If you have a smidgeon of empathy for the pain and suffering of others, it is very easy to stop participating. I know, I was raised in meat-loving Germany and have been vegan for 20 years.
Have you done any research before making this claim? Watched any videos? Read any book? Done anything than guess and hope you are right? The truth is (and I have done a lot of research) most farm animals are abused plain and simple. I would rather die than live for even a month in the conditions of a factory farm animal.
Claire Shamgochian - I have been researching/seeing/reading/watching farm animals/videos for nigh onto 60 years; of course factory-farm animals don't get the same treatment as non-factory animals! Wild animals don't have it any better than most factory-farm animals where I live; no human wants to live like that.
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
Peta cares
Peta would rather see all those dogs put down than adopted out. They don't want to save animals, they want to "liberate" them from all human involvement, including keeping pets. People drop pets off to them, thinking they'll be rehomed, but Peta puts them down instead.
PETA is one fucked up mess. Fuck PETA
Peta has on their about us page tat they wish the keeping of pets never existed, that the concept of pets is just selfishness and all pets are suffering. Peta's co-founder believes pets are in an abysmal situation and pets must be stopped. They kill over 90% of the cats and dogs they take in, they've stolen people's pets from their yards and porches and killed them, they take in strays and immediately kill them on the back of a van instead of waiting the legal time period required for strays. In some places their facilities are barred from being called an animal shelter as in some cases they only adopted out 3% of their animals and killed the other 97%.
C.Marrero - correct that PETA does not want people to own pets, and sadly they hide the fact that they do not actually care about the animals, they just care about getting people to stop owning animals for pets/food/leather/fur/etc.
I care..
Ellso so are you saying that peta doesn't even want people to own pets
C. Marreto, sounds like a logo... And YES, they do!
So dogs in Korea are raised in cruelty. Which is the difference of USA chicken, European turkey or other animal that are raisen in other countries?
Laws.You'll find a pig raised in the US and a pig raised in the EU are covered b different sets of laws. In the EU, it is much much more humane, in the US it is disgusting.
As a european, i have to sadly disagree. We displace our meat industries knowingly into countries were the laws are less respected and the production is cheaper. Win win for the producers: same conditions and even cheaper. Shame for everyone else though. The mass shelters abiding to the laws are still less than humane too thouh
I wouldn't sign that. Scandals are piling up.
None. Only dogs are cutter and people love them more and so they think this is horrible (which it is!) but eating other animals that were raised in worse conditions is fine!
Are we saying chickens & turkeys are as cognitively intelligent as say a dog? I think not and I eat meat but only occasionally & rarely beef. If lab grown meat gains acceptance perhaps mankind can leave this meat industry in the past. And adopt a puppy or kitten from a shelter! Breeders are another nasty industry!
Actually, studies have shown that for example pigs are smarter than dogs! Chickens are great at solving problems and have a very complex way of communicating with one another. Also: who are we to say that it's okay to kill an animal if it's less intelligent? The only difference is our perspective!
So eating dog is animal cruelty but eating pig, chicken, cow are not?
I think the point of the article is that the conditions the dogs were kept in is animal cruelty. Given that it also says he didn't want to impose western culture on them, so the idea o eating dog was ew to him, but he didn't say to them that eating dog is cruelty.
Dogs are different. They have been bred as companion animals and have different sorts of relationships with humans. That doesn't mean that it is ok to raise livestock in inhumane conditions, but it means that eating dogs is inherently wrong even if they are treated well.
not these dogs, these dogs bred for "consumption" not for companion. yes eating dogs is wrong, but there is nothing wrong with eating dogs meat. just like any other meat, including plants "meat"!....
You're adding something to this article that wasn't there.