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South Korean court rules that killing dogs for meat is illegal

June 25, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Verdict for the first time upholds 1991 law              BUCHEON,  South Korea––Upholding parts of the Korean Animal Protection Act which have been on the books since 1991,  but were never before successfully prosecuted,  a Bucheon city court judge has fined a dog meat farmer the equivalent of $2,050 in U.S. dollars for “killing animals without […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Cambodia, Cats, Culture & Animals, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Eating cats, Eating dogs, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laos, Live markets, Meat issues, Pacific rim, South Korea, Southeast Asia, Thailand, Uses of dogs, Vietnam Tagged With: Kim Kyung-eun, Merritt Clifton, Park So-youn, Soi Dog Foundation

China: Stopping dog trucks is the easy part. Saving dogs is harder.

June 30, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

Some dogs die from their ordeal,  but more than 80% are saved          GUANGZHOU,  China––The hardest part of rescuing a truckload of suspected stolen dogs en route to slaughter in Guangzhou,  China on June 19,  2017 had only just began when the cages of dogs were unloaded. The cargo,  initially believed to be about 800 […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Cats, China, Culture & Animals, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats, Eating cats, Eating dogs, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food & agriculture, Meat issues, Organizations, Southeast Asia, Thailand, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Merritt Clifton, Peter Li, Soi Dog Foundation

World Animal Protection bakes Mike Baker

October 6, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

Head of former WSPA out after six years            LONDON,  U.K.––The World Animal Protection board of trustees,  on the eve of the two largest international animal protection conferences of 2015,  abruptly removed six-year director general Mike Baker from office. What this might mean for the future direction of World Animal Protection,  formerly […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Africa, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Canada, Culture & Animals, Dogs & Cats, Europe, European Union, Feature Home Top, Food, Fur trapping, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, Hunting & trapping, Isles, Meat issues, Religion & philosophy, The Americas, United Kingdom, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Wildlife Tagged With: Camilla Parker Bowles, Duchess of Cornwall, Heifer International, Merritt Clifton, Mike Baker, Peter Davies, Prince Charles, Soi Dog Foundation, Wildlife SOS, World Society for the Protection of Animals, WSPA

Dog meat trade spreads rabies in Vietnam

June 8, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

            YEN BAI, Vietnam––Closing the Vietnamese border to imports of dogs for human consumption as a rabies control measure may have come two years too late for Yen Bai province, high in the ethnic Hmong region of the north. At least 1,900 Yen Bai residents were bitten by suspected rabid dogs during the first five […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Rabies, Southeast Asia, Vietnam Tagged With: Hmong, John Dalley, Merritt Clifton, Soi Dog Foundation, Yen Bai

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