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Seoul closes the doors on last remaining dog meat plant

By Madison Dibble
Published October 30, 2019 5:48pm ET
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Seoul closes the doors on last remaining dog meat plant
Dogs will no longer be butchered in South Korea’s capital city after the final processing plant closed. On Saturday, Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon announced that the final dog slaughterhouse had shut down. “Through persuasion for many years, we stopped all slaughter in Seoul,” he explained. “We will maintain the city as a slaughter-free place to […]

Dogs will no longer be butchered in South Korea’s capital city after the final processing plant closed.

On Saturday, Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon announced that the final dog slaughterhouse had shut down.

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