Counter-productive policies persist BALI, Indonesia––Dog-eating and dogfighting have reportedly exploded on Bali, corruption involving dog management policies is as flagrant as ever, and rabies––spread in part by the dog meat traffic––has reappeared after several years of suppression. The multi-dimensional Bali dog crisis raised global outrage on April 16, 2014, after personnel at the Bali […]
Indictment recommended in South Korean dog meat case
Could bring precedent-setting prosecution BUSAN, South Korea––A potentially precedent-setting criminal prosecution of a South Korean dog meat vendor may be imminent, Korea Alliance for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals translator April Kim posted to the Asia Animal Protection Network on April 13, 2014. On February 9, 2014, Kim recounted, translating from KAPCA statements originally […]
ASEAN nations move to implement dog meat trafficking ban
Four-nation agreement BANGKOK, Thailand–– Representatives of the Thai Department of Livestock Development, Vietnam Department of Public Health, and parallel agencies in Laos and Cambodia on February 28, 2014 agreed on plans to intercept traffic in dogs for slaughter along the Vietnamese/Laotian border and the Thai/Laotian border. […]
Police respond––slowly––to complaints about dog slaughter in South Korea
Police presence temporarily interrupted business BUSAN, South Korea––Attempting to invoke lightly enforced existing laws to try to close the Gupo and Nopodong live markets in Busan, South Korea, the Korea Alliance for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was on February 9, 2014 disappointed by a purportedly slow […]