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In December 2018, Donald Trump signed the Dog and Cat Meat Trade Prohibition Act of 2018 into law. Previously, the dog and cat meat trade was legal in 44 states. [139] In July 2023, congresspeople Vern Buchanan and Jared Moskowitz introduced a resolution that would call for banning dog and cat meat globally. [140]
NoToDogMeat is a UK-based animal rights charity which supports rescue centres in countries which have a dog meat and cat meat trade. The charity, which is legally known as World Protection for Dogs and Cats in the Meat Trade, also campaigns against the killing of animals in the fur trade. [citation needed] NoToDogMeat operates around the world.
Millions of Chinese in 2016 voted in support of a legislative proposal by Zhen Xiaohe, a deputy to the National People's Congress of China, to ban the dog meat trade. [18] A petition in China the same year, which garnered 11 million signatures and called for an end to the festival, was presented to Yulin government offices in Beijing. [ 19 ]
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Tang dogs are native to southern China and have been used for thousands of years in southern China as loyal gatekeepers. In the 2000s, the Tang Dog Association was established in Hong Kong to raise people's attention to Tang dogs. [3] In 2017, a Tang Dog won the World Dog Show championship at the dog show held by the Chinese Kennel Union. [2]
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[36] [37] Growing publicity around such incidents, as well as increasing pet ownership, has led to disapproval of the dog and cat meat trade, amongst most surveyed Chinese, [38] [39] with supply and demand of those markets on a steady decline. [40] Yin Yang fish involves deep-frying fish while it is still alive. The practice has been condemned ...
According to the Four Paws February 2020 report on the dog and cat meat trade in Southeast Asian countries, roughly 5 million dogs are killed for their meat each year in Vietnam. [1] Although the report indicated that Vietnam is the second biggest consumer of dog meat, [ 2 ] this practice is common among 40% of the population.