Gwangju International Center

SPEAKERS: Lisa Crone and guest Heo Jiseong

CO-WRITER:​ Hong Eun Gyung

GIC TALK DATE: May 21, 2016

GIC TALK TITLE: Become an Animal Rights Activist!

For today’s GIC Talk, we were honored to have Lisa Crone and Heo Jiseong with us to talk about how to “Become an Animal Rights Activist”.

Lisa Crone, an activist for animal rights, is now in charge of an animal shelter located in Gwangju. She introduced us to GACHI – Gwangju’s first non profit animal welfare organization.

First of all, Lisa Crone showed the GIC Talk audience members pictures of diverse dogs and told the story of how she started to engaged herself with that work. Lisa and her friends not only volunteered for the shelter, but adopted personally the dogs and cats that were sick and disabled. She explained how to protect and maintain the animals' health.

She promoted not buying a pet but adopting one and advocated new laws that carry real punishment to the owners and enforcement of the law. She added that we need to reduce the number of existing dog farms and illegal breeding.

She requested honestly that everybody needs to be educated. For children, they need to be taught about how to respect animals as emotional beings and consider dogs and cats as a member of their family. For adults, they are advised to stop eating dog meat, to accept mixed- breed dogs and to avoid negligence and abandonment of dogs. Finally she stressed again the importance of adoption rather than shopping.

Thank you Lisa Crone for sharing your opinion and experience about pets’ rights and showing us your love for animals. I believe that through today’s speech, the audience will have a better understanding of animal’s right.