Hello Pups and Kittens, welcome back to the podcast that spends it's time rescuing, fostering, and helping dogs and cats around. This week we have a great podcast for you. We're joined by the greatest rescue foundation out there. These people have changed the way we look at China, and the horrific acts by Yulin.  Let me introduce our guest to you.... http://www.animalhopeandwellness.org/

                                                                                                                      This is how movements are born. This is how cultures are created. One man and a single effort, it becomes a nation."  -Marc Ching The Animal Hope and Wellness Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization focused solely on rescuing abused dogs and dogs from the meat trade throughout Asia. We rescue them, provide full rehabilitation services, and then work to find them perfect homes.

Due to a widely held belief that high adrenaline levels will produce tender meat and increase the supposed health benefits – dogs are sadistically made to experience extreme fear and suffering prior to death.

They are tortured, dismembered, burned alive, electrocuted, crucified and nail gunned into walls, where they are tortured and kept alive to endure intolerable pain for sometimes up to 40 hours.

any of the toy breeds are boiled alive and then made into herbal supplements. Marc Ching has seen and video taped all of this first hand and even witnessed a dog strung up and burned alive with a blow torch right out in public at a local market where passersby were completely unfazed.

Our foundation’s mission is to shine a light on this very dark and barbaric practice. To expose the torture to the world in order to enact change and force the government to create laws to protect these precious animals from unfounded and cruel tradition.

 

Korean Slaughterhouse – January 2016

In my four trips to Asia, I have almost died three times. I have been beaten. Robbed. Shot at. Held at machete blade. But the worst of it all, is that literally I died inside.

At times when I sit alone at night, I find the lives I could not save, and feel them bleed through my skin. It’s in these moments I become desperate, feeling what I do and who I am – that it is never enough.

Until you breathe that blood in through your mouth, you could never understand what it is like watching a screaming life being tortured. The way you die in every breath. The way when you see their blood explode into the world, your heart explodes in that same fiery.

I am just a regular guy. I am not famous. I am not brave. I am just a person who sees something in the world that he cannot understand, and has to fight to change it.

Stand with me. Die with me. Bleed into the Earth with me. Tell me that the tears I push through my skin – that in the end it will be worth it.

 

 

 

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