Sentences with phrase «chinese meat trade»

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There is a vibrant campaign inside China to end the dog meat trade, with Chinese animal activists staging protests and dog rescues all year round.

One of HSI's China projects is to encourage the Chinese public and the Chinese authorities to take the necessary measures to end the dog meat trade.

HSI, one of the world's leading animal protection groups campaigning for an end to China's dog meat trade, has been on the ground in Yulin and other Chinese regions for the past few years, working with Chinese partner groups to rescue dogs from trucks bound for the dog meat markets, uncover the immense cruelty that takes place at the slaughterhouses, and draw attention to the plight of the animals.

In China, has provided expert advice to Chinese animal groups to advance several legislative proposals for a dog meat trade ban, and hopes that the time will soon come when the National People's Congress supports such proposals and advances robust animal welfare legislation.

Most Chinese people don't eat dogs, and do support an end to the dog meat trade.

More than 400 dogs bound for a slaughterhouse in Yunnan Province were rescued by Chinese activists working as part of Humane Society International's newly launched China Animal Rescue Command Center, in one of the tensest dog meat trade rescues in the country so far.

Peter Li, Humane Society International's China specialist, said: «I am proud of the courage shown by Chinese activists in stopping these trucks and saving these dogs from the brutal dog meat trade.

In the first week of August, 2014, Chinese animal activists helped pull over multiple trucks filled with dogs bound for slaughter in a massive rescue effort that shone a spotlight on the suffering involved in the dog meat trade.

More than 400 dogs bound for a slaughterhouse in Yunnan Province have been rescued by Chinese activists working as part of the China command center task force, in one of the tensest dog meat trade rescues in the country so far.

Chinese activists called on the Chinese government to stop the routine and widespread criminality of the dog meat trade that slaughters up to 10 million dogs — including stolen pets — every year for human consumption.

Taiwan's legislature took a monumental step in ending the dog meat trade, sending a message to the Chinese mainland, Nagaland state in India, Indonesia and other Asian countries where dog meat consumption is still legal that ending the brutal dog meat trade is the positive trend across Asia and in the public's interest.

Chinese activists are calling on the Chinese Government to stop the routine and widespread criminality of the dog meat trade that slaughters up to 10 million dogs — including stolen pets — every year for human consumption.

As someone who has attended Yulin for three years in a row to research, document, and expose the festival, as well as rescue small numbers of dogs and cats, he believes the government is closer than ever to not only banning the barbaric festival, but also the industry (he breaks down the history, practices, and attitudes about the Chinese dog meat trade in this must - read article).

Heartened by so many young and passionate Chinese citizens who have taken it upon themselves to challenge their country's antiquated attitudes toward animals and improve China's reputation as a developing and progressive nation, Adam said he does see a light at the end of the tunnel when it comes to the end of the pet meat trade.

But as the divide grows between older generation dog meat traders and younger generation Chinese animal activists who want the trade to stop, clashes between activists and dog meat traders are becoming more and more commonplace, making events like Yulin a veritable battleground in China's burgeoning animal rights movement.