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[-] BarrierWithAshes@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago

Damn, they're gonna turn Turkey into Istanbul.

[-] Zorque@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

What about Constantinople?

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[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 2 points 11 months ago

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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