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It has recently emerged that Egypt has recently signed an agreement
to ship over 10, 000 live donkeys to China. The General Organization for
Veterinary Services at the Ministry of Agriculture in Egypt has reportedly
agreed to the deal, which was requested by numerous companies based in China.
According to the organization’s director, Dr. Ibrahim Mahroos, the Chinese are
more interested in the leather of the donkeys than their meat. China has turned
its attention to Egypt after other countries such as Niger have banned donkey
exports to China, following a surge in sales.
Egypt is also considering an offer from South Korea, which will see
thousands of dogs shipped to one of the biggest dog eating nations in Asia.
Please support my petition and help reverse this outrageous
decision. The lives of thousands of innocent animals is at stake here and Egypt
will be making a huge mistake if such agreements would be allowed to continue.
South Korea is the only country in the world that breeds dogs for
human consumption. The dogs are kept in tiny, dirty cages all their life. They
receive little food and water and they have no hope. When the time is right,
they are skinned alive or boiled and cooked as food for major events such as
the Bok’nal, South Korea’s biggest dog soup festival. This is the grim of fate
of South Korea’s farm dogs and the dogs imported from Egypt would directly
arrive at such facilities.
Egypt has one of the biggest stray dog populations in the world and
authorities have proven themselves uncapable of finding a humane solution to
this important matter. Public workers have often taken to the streets so dogs
could be shot or poisoned, but this has proven to be only a short-tem solution
to the problem, as the packs of dogs returned in ever bigger numbers. However,
this does not give Egyptian authorities the right to export the dogs to South
Korea.
Please urge Egyptian authorities to reconsider and implement humane
methods to reduce the stray dog population, such as building shelters or
adopting spay-and-neuter schemes. The government may lack the experience on such
issues, but worldwide animal welfare organizations such as the Humane Society
are more than happy to assist if their help was sought.
Please stop Egypt from accepting this deal. Do not let 10, 000
donkeys die in terrible suffering in China and do not let the stray dogs of
Egypt be exported to South Korea. Take action now and voice your opposition
towards this outrageous deal.
News Source: http://english.alarabiya.net/en/variety/2016/12/10/Egypt-to-export-10-000-donkeys-to-China-dogs-to-Korea.html