Los Angeles City Council has passed a resolution urging multiple countries to ban the sale of dog meat and enforce laws against animal cruelty. The bill now awaits the mayor’s signature to go into effect.
The resolution, passed unanimously on July 3rd, targets the Asian governments of China, South Korea, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Indonesia.
Measures like this are important in the fight against dog meat because they increase pressure on governments to take action against this brutal trade. Although many countries have laws against slaughtering dogs and selling their meat, these regulations are often largely unenforced.
Lady Freethinker’s petition urging LA Mayor Eric Garcetti to fully support the resolution has garnered over 20,000 signatures so far. Sign now to add your voice:
Councilmember Bob Blumenfield introduced the non-binding measure, which was seconded by Councilmember David Ryu. It was inspired by a previously passed resolution by the Valley Alliance of Neighborhood Councils (VANC), which is made up of representatives from the 34 neighborhood councils of the San Fernando Valley.
The VANC resolution is directed at South Korea, a long-standing ally of the United States that has a close relationship with Los Angeles, in hopes that their government will be receptive to pleas to end the country’s dog meat trade. The City Council measure is essentially an expansion of the VANC resolution, aimed at a larger audience.
Every year, millions of dogs are mercilessly tortured and slaughtered for their meat. Many are stolen from their loving families, while strays are often shot with poison darts and snatched from the streets by criminal gangs.
Dozens of dogs are crammed together in small, rusty cages and often go without food and water for days while they’re transported to their next cruel destination – a restaurant, meat market, or slaughterhouse. Once there, they are brutally slaughtered in unimaginably painful ways, including by electrocution, hanging, or being torched alive.
Lady Freethinker is committed to helping end the horrific dog and cat meat trade through petitions, media attention, direct aid to rescuers saving dogs and cats from slaughter, sponsoring bus ads and more.
Barbaric and inhumane
Please get all dog meat farms closed and killing dogs and cats for meat banned the cruelty these animals suffer is dreadful .
STOP ANIMAL CRUELTY
NO MORE DOG MEAT MARJET
Please stop this cruel and inhumane action, eating dog and cat meat. They are warm blooded and have a nervous system like we do and feel pain as we do. They are pets that serve as wonderful companions, needing love and showing love. Please have mercy on the innocent!
Un exemple à suivre
Thankful for the updates and happy to see progress on some of the meat trade but it’s always stated as a dog meat trade it’s not just dogs it’s never mentioned dog and cat cats are done the same way as dogs and they are treated so cruel and these restaurants and meat markets as the same as the dogs are, I’m not saying that you’re not including them I just never see it I would appreciate the thought and so it a lot of people it is a dog and cat meat trade which is sickening disgusting and these people are sickening
Cruelty needs to STOP!
STOP animal cruelty!
Help to put an end to the dog and cat meat trade. This cruelty must be stopped at every opportunity. Help to enforce the law now.
Just sadistic and inhumane. How sick can you be as a human.
It is about time people stood up for these poor dogs and other animals.the savage way tgese dogs are treated. As got to end.tge barbaric .cruelty .that happened to these poor dogs and cats for the sake of money. Please end this pain full suffering.stop this evil .i hope. That this bill comes through sooner rather then later .thank you
Please end the dog and cat meat trade forever. Please !
Let’s end this cruelty, barbaric horrible ending of all “God’s Angeles”; l have prayed for so long for this to end very soon, l just hope it passes. Please end the dog and cat meat trade forever.. Thank you and God speaks into your heart to end this cruelty to all “His Angeles”; in “Jesus” Amen; l am an animal-lover ever since l was a child.
Thank God someone got on board. We need the entire world to get on board to end this atrocious industry!!!
STOP THIS EVIL MONSTEROUS CRUEL MURDERING OF DOGS AND CATS. GOVERNMENT IS TURNING THEIR HEADS AND LOOKING THE OTHER WAY WHILE THIS GOES ON. THIS ANGERS ME SO MUCH. I DO NOT BUY ANYTHING FEOM THESE COUNTRIES AND NEVER WILL. STOP THIS MEAN AND MURDERING OF THESE POOR ANIMALS. THEY ARE WONDERFUL LOVING COMPASSIONATE AND LOYAL THAN ANY HUMAN WILL EVER BE.
NO DOG OR CAT ANYWHERE ON THIS PLANET SHOULD HAVE TO ENDURE THE ASIAN WAYS OF THEIR GREAT TORTURE AND SLAUGHTER TO THESE ANIMALS. LAWS ARE IN PLACE AND SHOULD BE ENFORCED. THIS ANGERS ME SO MUCH TO KNOW THAT A SIGNATURE IS ALL I CAN DO TO HELP THEM. I WOULD PREFER TO BE THERE TO SHOOT THE SCUM WHO DO THIS TO THE POOR DOGS AND CATS. PLEASE LET’S NOT FORGET THE CATS HERE FOR ONE SECOND. CATS ARE TORTURED ALSO FOR THEIR MEAT IN THESE AWFUL COUNTRIES. THIS SHOULD HAVE NEVER BEEN STARTED NOR ALLOWED. GOVERNMENT KNEW AND HAS TURNED THEIR HEADS FOR YEARS AND IGNORED THE LAWS IN PLACE TO PROTECT THEM. STOP THIS NOW AND DON’T MURDER ONE MORE DOG OR CAT. EVIL AND MONSTEROUS IS WHAT THIS IS.
Long overdue! But so glad!
So glad , Long overdue
I’m very very happy to read this. But there is a very sad downside …
CATS are also stolen or raised, and slaughtered in horrible ways, as dogs are.
Yet all I see is 99% about dogs – cats are, again, forgotten or outright ignored.
If dog meat goes away, and it should, what the hell do you think is going to replace it?
If you are an Animal Lover, and not just a Dog Person, you FIGHT FOR ALL ANIMALS.
NOT just the ones YOU think are worthy of your time, effort, and your COMPASSION.
please help them
please help them
How humane that individuals and groups wish to stop the slaughter of dogs for food. Meanwhile, how many of you continue to buy and eat beef, pork, poultry, etc. Those animals are also sentient and are slaughtered by the millions in our own country. Where is your compassion now? SMH
THANK YOU for recognizing this depravedly horrific business and pressuring to bring it to an end — let’s BAN dog/cat meat trade PERMANENTLY.
THANK YOU for reminding everyone that cats are also raised in horrible conditions and also slaughtered in torturous ways.
Shame that more governments aren’t doing the same.
This is good news. Glad to hear it.
Justice, compassion, laws, life, LOVE for the dogs 🙏😢 Please 🙏