Sentences with phrase «of the dog meat trade»

Community outreach and highlighting the special nature of dogs as our companions are also part of our strategy to promote a public insistence for the end of the dog meat trade.

These dogs have been spared a lifetime of misery and a brutal death at the hands of the dog meat trade.

Across China, there are many dog markets and slaughterhouses, but the annual dog meat «festival» in Yulin in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region has come to symbolize the immense cruelty of the dog meat trade.

We pledge to care for and rehome these animals because saving them draws attention to the horrors of the dog meat trade globally and, more importantly, gives these dogs and puppies new lives where they will be loved rather than be dinner.

Peter Li, China policy specialist for HSI, has a more hopeful outlook about the impending demise of the dog meat trade in China.

Andrea Gung, executive director of Duo Duo Project, says: «Even if this is a temporary ban, we hope this will have a domino effect, leading to the collapse of the dog meat trade.

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.

Producer and director Genlin takes you through the backstreets and rural villages of Vietnam, South Korea, Thailand and China to disclose the brutal violence of the dog meat trade.

He wrote, «I'm hoping to use this visit as an opportunity to raise awareness to the inhumanity of the dog meat trade and the plight of dogs everywhere, including back home in the US where millions of dogs are in need of loving homes!

With love and patience, hopefully they can put the nightmare of the dog meat trade behind them.»

Meet Bonnie, a survivor of the dog meat trade in South Korea.

In December, a forum in Beijing focused on the health, public security, and moral impacts of the dog meat trade.

ACPA was successful in working with the governments to secure a five - year moratorium on cross-border transport of dogs for the trade in 2014, and focuses on strengthening enforcement of the ban and training of relevant officials, as well as raising public awareness of the ban and the health risks of the dog meat trade, especially rabies.

HSI will not support activities that however unintentionally, breathe life into the dying industry of the dog meat trade.

Kelly O'Meara, director of companion animals and engagement, Humane Society International, said: «Investigations throughout Asia have documented severe cruelty at all stages of the dog meat trade, including sourcing, transport, sale and slaughter.

«These young activists are the hope of a new China that will be free of the dog meat trade cruelty.

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Approximately 30 million dogs are killed across Asia each year as part of the dog meat trade.

Rescue in hub of dog meat trade won more notice than festival held to boost dog - eating YULIN, China ---- The largest - ever rescue of dogs from a truck hauling them to slaughter, accomplished on June 19, 2017 in Guangzhau, the longtime hub of dog - eating in China, very nearly upstaged the 2017 Yulin Lychee & Dog - Eating Festival, which -LSB-...]

Much of the dog meat trade in China is illegal.

«Helping to end the horrors of the dog meat trade is a critical mission for us,» explained Dr. Gary Weitzman, president and CEO of San Diego Humane Society, in a press release.

«Even if this is a temporary ban, we hope this will have a domino effect, leading to the collapse of the dog meat trade,» Andrea Gung, executive director of the Duo Duo Animal Welfare Project, said in the statement.

With a series of strategic events planned, LCA and ALW aim to mobilize S. Koreans in their own country to call for the end of the dog meat trade

HSI and British MP Henry Smith hosted a reception in the Palace of Westminster to shine a spotlight on the cruelty of the dog meat trade.

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.

These dogs will be amazing ambassadors for our efforts to end the cruelty of the dog meat trade, and we hope to open a dialogue with the South Korean government about doing just that.

«We hope this will have a domino effect, leading to the collapse of the dog meat trade... Yulin and the rest of the country are changing for the better.»

«Helping to end the horrors of the dog meat trade is a critical mission for us,» said San Diego Humane Society CEO Dr. Gary Weitzman.

«Helping to end the horrors of the dog meat trade is a critical mission for us,» said Gary Weitzman, president and CEO of San Diego Humane Society.