Take Action on Dog Meat
Take action on the dog meat trade – write to the tourism attache for the Philippines Department of Tourism expressing your views on the dog meat trade and how this might influence your decision to travel to the Philippines.
Close to 500,000 dogs, many of them stolen pets, are rounded up and slaughtered every year in the Philippines for the illegal dog meat trade. Conditions within the dog meat industry are barbaric, with thousands of dogs dying during transport to slaughter and the survivors having their throats cut in make shift slaughterhouses. Despite new legislation, the industry continues to flourish because the current government enforcement is insufficient to deal with its scale.
The UK tourism market is very important to the Philippines with a great deal of money being invested in promoting the country as a top destination. We believe that international tourists are increasingly making ethical considerations when choosing their holiday locations and hope that the dog meat trade can be one of those concerns.
We are asking our supporters to write to the tourism attache and tell him that you will think twice before travelling to the Philippines until the dog meat trade laws are enforced and this cruel trade eradicated for good.
