Sentences with phrase «part of the dog meat trade»

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

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Part of the region's profitable dog meat trade, these dogs — ranging in age from 4 months to 2 years — were instead rescued by Humane Society International (HSI), a Washington D.C. — based animal welfare organization that's working diligently across Asia to end the dog meat trade and provide alternate options for dog meat farmers.

HSI's Adam Parascandola, director of animal protection and crisis response, said: «In the more than two years that I've been part of our campaign to shut down the dog meat trade in Asia, I thought I'd seen it all until I first saw this facility.

This is the sixth dog meat farm closure managed by HSI, with a total of 770 dogs rescued since January 2015 as part of the organization's campaign to end the dog meat trade in South Korea and across Asia.

This is the sixth dog meat farm closure managed by HSI since January 2015 as part of the organization's campaign to end the dog meat trade.

Our ultimate goal is a ban on the dog meat trade, and our dog meat farm closures are part of a strategy to create the right political and societal circumstances to make this possible.

HSI is one of the leading organizations in the world working to end the cruel dog meat trade, and public education about the cruelty involved plays a key part of the strategy.

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.

HSI launched the Command Center after this year's Yulin dog meat festival, as part of the charity's major strategic push to end China's brutal dog meat trade.

Humane Society International helped local groups set up the command center after this year's Yulin dog meat festival, as part of the charity's major strategic push to end China's brutal 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.

The rescue is part of an ongoing effort to end the dog meat trade in South Korea, the only known country in Asia that farms dogs for human consumption.

Since 2014, Humane Society International has transported 540 dogs rescued that way — my dog Jinjja among them — to the U.S. and Canada as part of an ongoing effort to end the dog meat trade in South Korea.

As part of its high profile campaign to end the dog meat trade, HSI rescued four dogs and two cats just one day away from being killed during China's notorious Yulin dog meat festival.

As part of its campaign to end the dog meat trade, HSI has so far permanently closed down eight dog meat farms in South Korea, working in partnership with dog farmers to help them transition to new, humane livelihoods such as blueberry growing.

Unlike in China and other parts of Asia, Korea's dog meat trade primarily relies on the commercial farming of dogs to supply the country's demand for dog meat.

* This rescue marks the sixth dog meat farm closure managed by HSI, with a total of 770 dogs rescued since January 2015 as part of the organization's campaign to end the dog meat trade in South Korea and across Asia.

The rescue is part of HSI's campaign to end South Korea's dog meat trade and raise awareness among Koreans about the plight of «meat dogs.»

More than 2 million dogs are bred and butchered each year for their meat in South Korea, part of Asia's cruel dog meat trade.

As a part of our campaign to ban the dog meat trade in South Korea, HSI works to transition dog meat farmers to more humane industries and transports the dogs to regions where they can receive care and rehabilitation.

The operation is part of HSIs efforts to fight the dog meat trade throughout Asia.

«Yulin is just a tiny part of China's criminal dog meat trade,» he asserted.

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