Officials in the city of Hanoi, Vietnam, have announced plans to ban the consumption of dog and cat meat in the city, stating that the practice will be outlawed from central city districts by 2021.
The announcement tied in with a statement from the Hanoi People’s Committee, which encourages Hanoi residents to stop the cruel practice, reasoning that it is creating a negative perception of the city among international tourists.
In conjunction with these public announcements, Hanoi officials are undertaking a public education campaign, highlighting the dangers of consuming dog and cat meat — notably, the risk of contracting diseases such as rabies and leptospirosis. The campaign also appeals to people on an ethical level, asking them to “see value in treating animals humanely.”
Vietnam is the second-largest consumer of dog meat in the world after China, slaughtering roughly five million dogs every year. Although they’re not the biggest consumer, Vietnam does have the highest percentage of dog-eaters; a shocking 80 percent of Vietnamese say they regularly eat dog.
As with many countries in Asia, eating dog or cat meat is associated with good luck and improved health, as well as increasing sexual performance.
Demand is growing so rapidly that dog-breeding farms can’t keep up. Many of the dogs destined for consumption in Vietnam are stolen directly from owners or grabbed from the streets. Before being butchered, these terrified animals are often tortured for hours, packed into tiny cages and forced to watch other dogs brutalized and chopped up before suffering the same fate. Like many cultures, the Vietnamese believe that a dog that has been tortured for hours before being skinned alive creates a more tender, tastier meat.
“Many of us have seen heartbreaking photos that show the Yulin dog market in China, but the dog meat market in Vietnam is just as bad if not worse,” says Kike Yuen, project executive of the World Dog Alliance (WDA). “Like China, dog markets there get their supplies from the theft of pets, which are often crammed into small cages and delivered to restaurants. There are even restaurant chains operating like McDonald’s; it’s just unbelievable.”
The WDA estimates that half a million dogs every year are being smuggled from Thailand to Vietnam every year to satisfy the demand.

Please do it now, eat all meat trade now ! Poor dogs and cats and all animals. They have a right to a nice life free of cruelty.
BRAVO, EVEN IF THAT IS TWO YEARS AWAY!
This is about the torture of dogs and cats ,why ?? Can you imagine the Pain they feel ,being boiled Alive ,Skinned Alive ,and burnt Alive …These animals Don’t deserve this SUFFERING…please END This horrific Ause on Such Innocent creatures that give to man LOVE and LOYALTY
These people are monsters, cruel should rot in hell every one of them,they are inhuman no feelings
2021!!! What the fuck!!! That’s to far away!!! We need to do it now!!!
Why do tomorrow what you can do today! There is no reason to put it off!! These people are monsters!!! And these dogs and cats do not need to suffer any longer!!
2021!!! What the fuck!!! That’s to far away!!! We need to do it now!!!
Why do tomorrow what you can do today! There is no reason to put it off!! These people are monsters!!! And these dogs and cats do not need to suffer any longer!!
How about we end it…uh, today???
Please please save these animals!!!
How long does it take to empty cages of cats & dogs….. 3 YEARS!! Come on! within that time dogs could be in new homes. Let them go, let them have a life, it’s not as though you are starving !. I hope those who keep this going for a further three years choke to death, you are seriously SICK people. We won’t let this continue we will carry it on & on & on to stop this cruelty. …. Make a start NOW!
These are sick people inhuman and primitive they all need to be drowned in the deepest of water, to inflict such torture and pain to the poor animals I hope they all rot in hells fires
The only way to stop them all is kill them one by one until there all wiped out send a message to these chink assholes I don’t give a damn about them there all barbarians no matter what they believe that torture is there only way of life free Gods animals now and feast on yourselves for meat and dont call me racist I hate you chinks and wish you all die a horrible death if God doesn’t do it first rot in hell all of you
House of horror.
Three years is too long a time to end these precious, innocent, loving ceatures’s suffering. By their rate, you know how many animals that will be that will be cruely and needlessly abused, tortured, then killed? How many animals that will experience horrific torture and pain before their deaths? How many loving pets that felt nothng but love and trust in humans, to then be snatched up and treated inhumanely, not knowing why, until they see and feel the terror these idiotic people, who believe in stupid nonsense, will inflict on them. Unbelievable! Three years is way too long to keep this incredibly stupid ritual going. I really can’t see how these (people?) can sleep at nights knowing that they intentionally caused an innocent, loving animal’s death. All because they want to eat. Those among you who don’t feel that way, please stay with your pets at all times. Don’t leave them alone. It would also be nice if the good people could all get together and form gangs to rescue those sweet babies. It would be excellent if the law would have the compassion and common decency to act now and ban, forever, that horrible practice. My heart breaks for all the animals who will still be needlessly and horrifically treated and killed until the year 2021.
Reply to debra broach the only way to stop this is destroy all slaughter houses and form vigilante I know it sounds wrong but to stop this torture and these animals to be free is to do this you have to send a message enough is enough but if they really want it to stop it would have by now people of China Korea and all other Asian country are afraid of there govt they thrive on barbican ways it’s there culture to be barbarians they show no love no feelings no pain no emotion and dont have a heart of a human so to better themselves change your culture and others will be respectable to you please change now
That’s too long. Ban it NOW!!!!!!!!!
Ban & stop the cruelty.
Don`t wait until 2012! Please, ban as soon as possible!
Shame on you! I can`t believe they need to die and suffer `til 2012! NO! NO!
Banning it, but not until 2021? Are you kidding me? Come on Hanoi government leaders…PUSH to enact this sooner than nearly three years from now.
Ojala algun dia entendamos que los animales son necesario en el planeta por distintos motivos valores castremos no abandonemos ni maltratenos pues ellos son seres vivos y Dios los creo
End this barbaric evil sickening act against animals today, right now! Not 2021. That’s not good enough, for these innocent animals to have to suffer needlessly for 3 more years until this ends? Shame on you! How can you let this kind of abuse continue? I beg of you to stop it today!
Thank you
Lisa Sproule
End this barbaric evil sickening act against animals today, right now! Not 2021. That’s not good enough, for these innocent animals to have to suffer needlessly for 3 more years until this ends? Shame on you! How can you let this kind of abuse continue? I beg of you to stop it today!
Thank you
Lisa Sproule
SHAME ON YOU HANOI, WHY MUST WE WAIT TIL 2012. DO IT IT NOW !!
stop this stupid archaic , thinking come into the century that doesnt eat or torture these animals, the whole world stage is watching and see everything you so so dowhen 2021 comes it cant come fast enough,,
Agent Orange should have killed off all the dog and other animal torturers! Lost the war to animal torturers and killers! Why wait so long to abolish the dog and cat consumption? Crazedddddd. Fund mental health, not animal torture!
What is wrong with the human race, no compassion or empathy or respect for animals of any kind, this is the 21st century.the murder and torture of these dogs and cats should be banned now not in 2021
Human race? Very questionable term… What makes you think the secret ‘science’ we have today experimenting with human and animals DNA wasn’t here in the past? Thus the results… No feeling, no shame, no grace… Worse of bests…
The year 2021???? Why so long and why not now??? Meanwhile many dogs and cats will be murdered while waiting for this ban to take place. What is wrong with those who call themselves “human” but are really something from the cave-dwellers’ era and lack a heart with compassion. I can honestly say that I see these human mutants as two-week old garbage.
Will the ban be enforced? And it applies only in Hanoi. Can’t trust these Communists.
Why doesn’t this ban become effective immediately? How many unlucky dogs will be murdered in a span of three years? It’s very disheartening.
2021 !!! THAT’S 3 YEARS AWAY !!! WHY NOT STARTING EDUCATING THE PUBLIC NOW THROUGH THE MEDIA! JUST DON’T START IT IN 2021! STOP IT IN TOTALLY IN 2021 !!!
How many dogs will lose their lives in a horrific fashion until 2021? This barbaric practice must be stopped now, with immediate effect!
THESE ASIANS ARE EVIL,THEY HAVE NO FEELINGS<NOT TO MENTION A HEART!.I WILL BELIEVE IT WHEN I SEE IT IS DONE.
Stop this barbaric practice of eating dogs and cats right now why wait until 2021?
I totally agree. Why 2021 – stop it NOW
Should come into effect asap. Not 2021, what are they waiting for.
2021 is not soon enough! What is wrong with 2019??!!
It IS good news but the ban needs to effective immediately!
It’s high time that animals stop dying in such a cruel way. This is a crime that needs to be punished. Where do these people have a heart? Stop killing !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
These sick fu.ks need to stop itat the end of THIS year! 3 years to stop it? That’s bu.lshi.
When will this horror end. I look at my dog sleeping beside me and I can’t understand how these people can do this to these poor innocent animals. It’s really hard to have compassion for people who treat dogs and cats that way. I’m frustrated and hateful when I read this.
Asians have such a warped sense of medicinal backward thinking. This must stop now.
Why the 3 year wait to ban dog meat?? There are still going to be millions of dogs that will suffer and die until then. Stop it now!!!
STOP THIS NOW !!!!!!!
How, in the 21st century, can any society think that torturing and skinning a dog alive makes the meat tastier.. This is just barbaric and there needs to be an international outcry to put a stop to this once and for all.
We need and want to stop this now, not in 3 years. This is insane..We all need to act and stop these poor animals from this savagery. We are by far, the most perverted, barbaric and dangerous animals on this planet.
please don’t forget the cats… their pain and suffering is just as severe and just as wrong.
I can see them over there buying up all the freezers they can find… stepping up the torture and killing in case they are actually made to stop… or is this just a tactic to make people stop paying attention and then they just continue on?
Let’s be rational, compassionate, moral & merciful — HOW COULD ANYONE IN THEIR RIGHT MIND ENGAGE IN SUCH IMMORAL HORROR — we do NOT live in the Dark Ages — you are a progressive & modern country with a richness & beauty — SHUT DOWN PERMANENTLY this depraved, irrational, hateful, horrific, sadistic, cowardly, immoral, cruel & unconscionable dog/cat meat racket — this insanity is beyond the pale — the world is watching — SHUT DOWN THESE HORROR DOG/CAT MEAT FARMS PERMANENTLY — NOW!
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It’s a step in the right direction….IF they actually do it; but why oh why do they need 3 years to do it?? They do the same thing here; ban something to take effect several years hence.
Let the dogs to have Forever Homes to where they will get the loved and to be well taken care.
It needs to be DONE NOW.
and the cats!!!!!!
That’s 3 years away. They need to stop now!!
We need to go vegan here in the US, we can be a great influence on people in other countries that way. We cannot be hypocrites and tell others to stop eating dogs & cats, while we stuff hamburgers and chicken etc. into our faces! I hope one day we will come to respect and care for all animals.
I refuse to travel to any country that allows dogs and cats to be tortured prior to slaughter and then consumed! I refuse to buy products from countries that continue to allow their populations to believe that torturing animals prior to consumption makes the meat taste better! Disgusting! It needs to be an immediate ban!
unfortunately about 44 U.S. states allow dog and cat meat for consumption.. and altho cows, pigs, chickens, turkeys, geese, etc aren’t deliberately tortured for some weird belief they suffer just as much on factory farms… either thru neglect, negligence, the need for quick turnaround and fast profits, or because the workers are impatient, pressed by their bosses or just simply mean.. we all need to stop eating meat and wearing leather. being vegan is extremely difficult, but giving up meat is a “piece of cake” !!
I HAVE BOYCOTTED ANYTHING MADE OR PACKAGED IN ANY ASIAN COUNTRIES BECAUSE I CAN SEE THAT
THEY HAVE NO LIKING FOR ANIMALS AT ALL. THE ARE ALL CRAZY HUMANS THAT SHOULD BE RID OF IF
THEY CONTINUE TO GO AGAINST NATURE.
It might be a good decision but they need 4 years and thousands of dogs to ban this cruel practice? #allmeatismurder
and cats!