Dogs as Food Animals

[Guest guest]

Hi!

Thanks to many compassionate people and organisations from different nations,

the world has become increasingly aware over the last few years of the horrific

suffering of dogs who are used for food. I have played my own small part in

this through keeping the website for the Asian Animal Protection Network:

http://www.aapn.org/fooddogs.html

 

The Animals Asia Foundation - http://www.animalsasia.org/ - has, of course,

been very interested in this issue and their strategy so far has been to raise

respect for dogs by promoting Dr Dog and Detective Dog programmes in Hong Kong,

Mainland China, Taiwan and Korea. They have also carried out investigations on

dog slaughter in China, Korea and Vietnam.

 

But AAF feels that there must be more that can be done than has been done until

now. They have asked me to investigate the subject and come up with a plan that

could co-ordinate efforts and make some real progress. At the moment there is no

doubt that dog eating is becoming more and more popular - we must find some way

to reverse this.

A lot of work, spearheaded by KAPS - http://www.koreananimals.org/ - has been

put into the Korean abuses - but the problem is far more widespread than just

one country.

 

I should be very interested to hear your thoughts and ideas. I should also be

very grateful for any web references, old articles, etc - particularly ones that

refer to specific places that we could check out and document.

I wonder if anyone kept copies of the webpages at:

http://www.china.org.cn/AcrossCountry/Shanxi_w/english/ensbn/index.htm

and: http://www.chinashaoxing.com/Cooperat/Items/eSX_44.htm - they are no

longer accessible.

 

John Wedderburn.