More than half of Daegu City’s ‘animal welfare’ budget next year
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Introduced into the ‘Dog Meat Breeds’ project
Looking at the 2025 Daegu City animal welfare budget plan
There are many government-funded matching projects and few city-funded projects.
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Written by Jang Eun-mi
2024-11-15 13:33
https://www.newsmin.co.kr/news/110895/
Looking at the 2025 budget plan prepared by the Agricultural Products and Distribution Department, the budget for the enactment of the dog meat ban is a combination of national and municipal funds: ▲ 739.7 million won for support for the closure of dog meat farmers, ▲ 191.1 million won for support for the closure of dog meat slaughterhouses ▲ This includes 4.875 million won for the full-time support project for dog meat breeding. A total of 935.675 million won, accounting for 52.4% of the ‘animal welfare’ budget.
Rather than saying that the existing animal welfare budget has been cut,
This means that the additional budget related to the dog meat ban is that large.
But even that wouldn’t be enough.
A policy of forcibly banning food consumption without social consensus…
It will cost several million won per animal, but I have no idea how much it will cost.
In addition, the main budget for ‘animal welfare’ is ▲ 10 million won for production of animal protection promotional materials ▲ 10 million won for production of pet ticket waste bags ▲ 9 million won for purchase of organic animal disease prevention drugs and equipment ▲ 80.4 million won for animal protection business ▲ Daegu pet product exhibition Hosting support: KRW 56 million ▲ Stray cats These include KRW 297.12 million for neutering and neutering (TNR) projects, KRW 239.73 million for strengthening the management of abandoned animals (support for adoption fees, rescue, and protection costs), and KRW 41.44 million for support for neutering surgeries for outdoor dogs. In terms of budget size alone, the operation of an abandoned animal shelter and the neutering project for stray cats are classified as major projects.
Other than that, the animal welfare budget looks similar to last year.
200,000 won is invested per stray cat,
It has increased significantly by tens of percent in recent years.
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The stray cat neutering (TNR) project is frozen at last year’s level this year.
I don’t know what it’s like nationwide, but
According to Daegu City’s budget status, only those two projects are
At least two-thirds of the animal welfare budget is wasted on unnecessary things.