Animal advocacy organization Animals Australia has discovered that tourists in Bali have been fed dog meat believing it to be chicken satay.
Video evidence shows dogs kidnapped, tied up, and caged — sometimes for days at a time without food and water — before they are brutally slaughtered.
An undercover investigator for Animals Australia spent months documenting Bali’s dog meat industry, witnessing the stealing and killing of the innocent pups.
“I focused on my camera work, but it was gut-wrenching to hear these dogs screaming and wailing in terror and sorrow,” the investigator told ABC.
While dog meat is a perfectly legal food in Bali, tourists along the beach have no clue that they are fueling the market. Most are unaware that restaurants with the letters ‘RW’ are ones that sell dog, and street vendors are taking advantage as they approach tourists with what they claim to be chicken satay.

Image: Animals Australia
“Dog meat is essentially filtering into the tourist food chain,” said Lyn White, campaign director of Animals Australia.
This isn’t just bad news for the dogs of Bali. Many of the animals are poisoned with cyanide, which can be dangerous to the consumer, too.
The food may be legal, but the cruel methods used to capture and kill the dogs, including with poison, are certainly not. Animals Australia hopes the Bali government will make a bigger effort to stop the trade’s unlawful actions, and that the public will fight against Bali’s dog meat trade altogether.
Bali is hardly alone. The vicious cruelty of the dog and cat meat trade in countries like China, Vietnam and S. Korea has sparked outcry worldwide, especially since news of the now-infamous Yulin Dog Meat Festival in China went viral several years back. With enough pressure, this despicable industry may end — but it will take a global effort.

This treatment of Animals is depravedly, unconscionably cruel, insane and sadistic — this is a merciless and brutal betrayal to the Animals, to the Human Citizenry of Asia and to all the Tourists — I would STOP all dealings in every way & form with Bali and the rest of the countries in Asia who participate in such brutal Animal cruelty.
We MUST EDUCATE the world — esp. the TOURISTS — the customers WHO unwittingly buy into this brutality — what RATIONAL, COMPASSIONATE, MORAL & RESPECTABLE society would allow for such HORROR? — this depravedly horrific and cruel RACKET is hell on earth for the defenseless animals who are traumatized and suffering — Where’s the rationality? — Where’s the compassion & empathy? — LET’S DO THE RIGHT THING — LET’S ABOLISH THESE DRACONIAN, BRUTAL FARMS — LET’S RESCUE THESE DOGS & CATS into loving environments.
This is just terrible hope these cruel rotten people rot in hell karma is coming
Disgusting, horrific, I do not have enough words to describe how I feel.
Bali and any country that allows cruelty to animals should be shunned until such time they change their evil ways.
this is wrong on every level fist let’s get the entire world banning country’s like this from our trades manufacturing all business let’s get them where it hurts money next protest any all Asian food restaurants around the world next all hold hands and sream STOP NO MORE OF THIS CRUELTY lest stand together and push them to the ground jail them and fine them heavily
Yes, agreed sonia and how about we go gather all their animals and pets and leave them dry with nothing to eat except dirt. Would serve them idiotic, moronic fools right. Believe me and I am deadly serious, if It was humanly possible, and I could go remove all their pets from over there, I would gladly and most willingly do so. THEM PIECES OF CRAP!
Bali, shame on you!
All my good regard of the enchanting Bali, and beautiful Balinese people and traditions are now shattered.
I hope ppl who have read this horrendous story an were goin to visit Bali plz don’t go they don’t deserve any tourism ,when they can do that barbaric cruelty is beyond me ,I’ve already commented on this but it makes me so angry i hate scum like them who torture an beat a defenseless animal in such a way ,give me 5 mins wi one of those ppl an see how they like PURE.SCUM
They way most people feel about dogs is the way I feel about dogs, pigs, cows, sheep, goats and other ‘domesticated’ animals. They all deserve our empathy.
An Bali Was On My Bucket List:( NOT Any Longer!!!! This Is Awful, Cruel An SO Sad!!!!
Indeed, I have recently heard of this among the younger ‘truck wheel workers’ at ‘smoko’ and lunchtime at my work.
Most of what those youngsters say at the smoker’s break area can be discarded as young blokes dribbling young-bloke shit, but now, thanks to Nina, there is some back-up to this story.
I had already signed the petition to end dog and cat meat use in such ways all over the globe. I received advice from the on-line animal protection group that my vote and many others like it have had a positive effect on this and I’m sooo glad.
That’s what I love about the ‘Lady Freethinker’ blog. I’m not really Liberal and hardly proggresive, but my feelings about undue cruelty to animals and anybody else are well represented here. By following I am kept abreast of such issues and given the chance to make a difference by having my vote counted among many others who feel as I do about these things.
Although Bali is a favoured and relatively cheap holiday destination for us Aussies, I am hesitant to go there, more so after learning of these animal cruelties performed.
Thank you Nina, it is an important and well appreciated service that you perform here.
All the best,
Woody
stop it and boycot Bali please
“So” sick about this treatment of dogs I meant.
I agree. I planned to go at the end of year. do sick about this treatment of dogs. What shame. Crossed off my list!
despicable, horrid cant write what I really want call them. How can you eat a live thinking furry beautiful lovable feeling being? Why on this green earth would I want to spend my time money visiting a place that condones this sort of wretched behaviour? Bugger off I will visit where I can hug and play with a dogster not EAT them you miserable SOBs. Ugghh I want to vomit on your wretched country. Don’t get me started about Yulin. BTW I am of Chinese ancestry. How about if I kill skin and cook you, you despicable people. Look at their faces I just cannot think of the immeasurable fear and pain that they are feeling.
my heart is aching this is not normal it’s not fair to harm animals humans this is flat out insane I hate these cultures they have sick tradition not normal to the entire world I’m shouting out pls stand to make this change pls fight for this to stop pls everyone around the work join hold hands and force this to stop pls everyone help these animals
This is barbaric!! U have just lost my tourist dollars to your country. I will never condone any abuse to any animal especially dogs and cats which i consider a member of my family. This festival nees to STOP ASAP!!???????????????????????????????????????? Ban this festival!
This is the most discussed at of brutally I have seen in my life time. I am an old man in my seventies and I can’t remember ever seeing such atrocious brutality on dogs ever. These people that are going around doing this should be put “DOWN” and hog tied just like these poor dogs with no food or water and be beaten unmercifully. We know we can’t slaughter them but that sure as hell should be hung up just like these poor dogs and be beanten until they can’t see a damn thing and at the same scare the hell out of them by coming at them with a knife while they are hanging on the hooks.
One way to stop this practice is to boycott counties that eat dog and cat. If people stopped going there, they may rethink doing this.
Excellent idea. Maybe we all should call for a boycott against these countries ? We need it to be loud say in front of the United Nations building in New York .
Seriously, we need food inspectors everywhere and they need punished. Extremely harsh punishment.
I just don’t understand how people can do this. I can’t wrap my head around thus. I am not a violent person but if I could have 5 minutes muted with these perpetrators I would slaughter them the same way. An eye for an eye
You go girl.
I feel the same way! “To everything a season”. While violence in many cases should be avoided or countered, I really think with some people they need to know what it FEELS like. But I’m afraid with people like that, they’re only capable of relating to themselves and the danger is becoming like them. The best blessing and curse would be a strong dose of empathy for all. Then the cruelest people would have to relive what they’ve done over and over for the rest of their lives.
I AGREE NANCY!!!…AN EYE FOR AN EYE WITH EVEN MORE TORTURE!!! WOULD LOVE THIS!!! GET THESE ASSHOLES OFF THE PLANET AND MAKE THEM ENDURE EXTREME TORTURE ON THE WAY OUT!!!!
I guess I’ll never see Bali, thought I would to, but not until they start respecting dogs as equal creatures to us.
Evil bastards I’m so fed up of reading these horrendous stories ,how are we gona stop it it’s happening in so many countries now nicking ppls pets an why do ppl leave there dogs in a yard or garden there easy targets for these evil traders who don’t give a shit about animals ,it makes me so angry if i saw this happening i wouldn’t be able to hold back an do to them to do what they to dogs an cats
Despicable. Words fail me.
It’s much worse than depicted. When I first arrived in Bali, 1969. the Muslim police would come into Hindu villages and steal every unsecured dog. They’d be brought to Nusa Dua, dangled by their back legs, and fed to the crocodiles to entertain rich tourists. When I began returned to Bali frequently in the mid-1990’s, I came into possession of two dogs (@1998): Eddie (a female) and Kinta (a Kintamanee dog, unique to Bali). One morning, in the beach town of Legian, my Kinta was missing. The entire village loves me, and they caught the young Muslim man who stole my Kinta. He showed me a card from a high-ranking Muslim official, and sneered that I couldn’t do anything about it. I pointed out to him that he was surrounded by 30+ Hindus, “So where is my dog Kinta?” The young man began to whimper. “I gave him to my parents.” “So go get him.” “They live in Sangla” (about 10 kilometers away). “So…bring me Kinta, now!” “I can’t. My Ibu (Mom) and Bapak (Dad) ate him for dinner last night.” True story. I have a photo of my Kinta, if there’s some way to post it here.
Did you beat the hell out of him? Did you get resitution for your fog? Did you file charges?
exactlyyyyyyyyyyyyyy Drew1!!
Oh my God James, I’m SO sorry to hear that, thank you for at least trying to save them, NO animal on the planet deserves the brutality they put these animals through, I pray we can stop it, but I know it’s going to be an up hill battle, and will take a very long time, but we must NEVER give up!!!
AGREED!!!! I can’t fathom that this goes on all over the world, and has for so long, I can’t bear the thought of how they all suffer, dogs AND cats, it truly HAUNTS me!!! I can’t even stand seeing the pics, so I don’t watch the videos, as I know from past experience seeing things I wish I never had that the images will never leave me, we have GOT to SOMEHOW stop this world wide ONCE & FOR ALL!!!!!
Sick as hell! I just can’t…https://ladyfreethinker.org/exposed-bali-tourists-fed-dog-meat-disguised-chicken/?replytocom=714005#respond
That grosses me out. I wrote Bali off as one of the places I want to visit. Dogs and cats are not meant for human consumption. I’d rather go hungry or eat a vegetarian diet.