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Sangkyung Lee, manager of Humane Society International/Korea's campaign to end the dog meat trade, gently pets a dog at a dog meat farm in Ansan City, South Korea.
Jean Chung
HSI
2023: An unforgettable year in the fight to end the dog and cat meat trades
November 17, 2023, was a truly historic day in the fight to end the dog meat industry. In South Korea, where up to one million dogs are farmed and killed for human consumption each year, the government officially presented a roadmap to end the dog meat industry within a three-year period.
We’ve been working toward this moment for a decade. Our strategy has been to work with dog meat farmers eager to exit the industry; this Models for Change program brings people together to find a solution that works for both humans and animals, creating a blueprint for the government to ultimately phase out
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