Urge Texas doctor to stop promoting dog meat as cancer treatment!

The doctor in question is Euishin Edmun Kim of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Of South Korean origins, the doctor moved to the United States and pursued an excellent career in medicine. He is now regarded as one of the top doctors in Texas.

However, one of his declarations is not only outrageous, but completely out of line and unprofessional. In an interview with the JoongAng Illbo newspaper published on June 23^rd 2012, Dr. Kim recommends dog meat as a suitable aid in the treatment of cancer.

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This conclusion was drawn after the observation of just two cancer patients in South Korea – one of whom had eaten an impressive amount of dog meat during his treatment and had been performing much better than the other patient included in the test. This conclusion is therefore biased and has absolutely no scientific proof (it could have been sheer coincidence, for instance). No real connection has been proved thus far between the two elements. However, dr Kim has yet to retract his statement and his position remains unchanged: eating dog meat is good for curing cancer.

Viewers must understand the dangerous nature of such statements. Each year, millions of dogs are eaten in South Korea. Before they end up on someone’s lunch or dinner plates, these defenceless creatures suffer horribly – they are hit, burned, or have to face a series of electric shocks, just to name a few common practices used in the dog meat industry. Not to mention the fact that most dogs are raised in dog meat farms, where they spent their entire life living in tiny, dirty cages, confined there 24/7. Thousands of cats are also eaten for soups and ‘healthy’ tonics.

South Koreans consume dog and cat meat because due to the popular belief that they good for the health. However, absolutely no scientific studies have shown this and Dr. Kim is only doing more damage by making such preposterous statements and fueling these misguided beliefs.

While activists around the world are working to ban dog and cat meat in South Korea, people like Dr. Edmund Kim are publicly spreading lies and hampering such precious efforts.

We, the undersigned, are extremely disappointed by the lack of professionalism illustrated by Dr. Kim and urge him to immediately retract his statement that dog meat does indeed serve as a good method for cancer treatment and cancer preventative, unless there is substantial scientifical evidence to support such claims. Lauching such preposterous theories based solely on the observation of two patients is way below any acceptable standards of conduct in modern medicine.