According to a survey, 73% of the people agree with the law banning the breeding, slaughtering, and selling dogs for food.
The Animal Welfare Research Institute Aware announced on the 5th the "2022 National Awareness Survey on Animal Welfare" (a sampling error of ±2.19% at a 95% confidence level), which surveyed 2,000 adult men and women nationwide.
According to the survey, 72.8% of the respondents agreed to the ban on raising, slaughtering and selling dogs for food, including very yes (42.0%) and yes (30.8%).
In addition, 94.2% of the respondents said they had no experience eating dog meat over the past year, and 88.6% said they were not willing to eat dog meat in the future.
There has also been a growing awareness that obligations should be strengthened in raising animals.
91.2 percent of the respondents said that "the act of raising animals without providing minimum conditions such as water and feed" should be banned by law, up 3.6 percentage points (p) from the same survey in the previous year.
88% of the respondents said that leaving injured animals untreated should be banned, and 86.1% said that tying them in short lines or locking them in narrow spaces should be banned, up more than 3%p from the previous survey.
96.4% of the respondents agreed to a system that regularly updates the information of registered animals to strengthen the responsibility of pet owners.
The proportion of households raising pets was 36.2%, up 12.3%p from the previous survey (23.9%).
The survey found that 94.3% of the respondents approved of the revision of the Civil Code to distinguish the legal status of animals and objects.
"Social awareness of animal welfare grows every year, but the current system does not keep up with it," Lee Hyung-joo, CEO of Aware, said. "We will submit the results to the government and the National Assembly to reflect the demand for strengthening the animal welfare system in this year's policy."
