A Humane World

In Indonesia, the province of East Nusa Tenggara consists of more than 500 islands known for their pink-sand beaches and Komodo dragons. It is, sadly, also home to a rampant trade in dogs for meat and high levels of dog meat consumption, which have contributed to regular occurrences of rabies on the islands. Catching dogs to pack them tightly together in vans so they can be transported, often long distances to slaughter is obviously cruel—it is also extremely dangerous from a public health perspective.