Gus Kenworthy saves 90 dogs that were going to be cooked

Olympic skier Gus Kenworthy denounces the conditions of dog farms in South Korea and adopts Beemo dog

GAYLES.TV.- The Olympic skier Gus Kenworthy returns to be news after the kiss with her boyfriend Mattew Wilkas that the cameras captured in the Pyeongchang Winter Olympic Games. After becoming viral, now take advantage of the pull of their social networks to denounce the conditions of the dog farms in South Korea. «This morning, Matt and I had a heartbreaking visit to one of the 17.000 dog farms here in South Korea. Throughout the country there 2,5 million dogs that are bred to eat in some of the most disturbing conditions imaginable«, He writes in a post on his account Instagram that already has more than 200.000 likes.

Kenworthy is aware that eating dogs is part of Korean culture but denounces that the "way these animals are treated is completely inhumane." For this reason, although he does not intend to "impose Western ideals on the people here," he has taken action and has decided to adopt a puppy that will be called Beemo (in the photo above).

«Culture should never be a scapegoat for cruelty» continue the post. The dogs are here malnourished and mistreated physically, stuck in small pens with wire and exposed to the icy winter and the scorching summer conditions. When the time comes to sacrifice one, he does it in front of the other dogs by means of electrocution that sometimes takes up 20 agonizing minutes«, He laments.

Thanks to Kenworthy, to the work of Human Society International and to the farmer's cooperation, this particular center will be closed and the 90 dogs which now houses will be brought to Canada and the USA. where they will be adopted.

Despite having managed to save the lives of these 90 dogs and have adopted the dog Beemo, Kenworthy remember that «TThere are still millions of dogs that need help. I hope to take this visit as an opportunity to create awareness about the inhumanity of the dog meat trade and the situation of dogs everywhere, even in the United States«.