February 10, 2010

The awareness raising stunt was staged to support UK MPs who have already signed NFA’s recently tabled Early Day Motion (# 774) targeting the commercial dog meat trade in the Philippines, and hopes to encourage additional MPs to lend their support for the EDM.

The Philippines commercial dog meat trade has proliferated to unprecedented levels, with approximately 500,000 dogs slaughtered annually under extremely inhumane conditions. The dog meat trade was banned in 1998 via the Animal Welfare Act. More recently, this national ban was bolstered by the Rabies Act, which upgraded penalties for convicted dog meat traders to include jail time and substantially increased fines as one means of curbing the spread of rabies. However, a lack of enforcement and judicial tolerance of dog meat eating are endemic, allowing the industry to thrive.

Early Day Motion (EDM) # 774 was tabled by a cross party group of MPs who are concerned about the levels of cruelty to animals implicated in the dog meat trade and are supportive of Network for Animals’ goal of the Philippines government enforcing their own laws to eradicate this inhumane trade forever.

Network For Animals has campaigned on the dog meat trade in the Philippines for many years and is ready to support the government in its efforts to enforce the laws against the dog meat trade.

Please click here to write a polite email to the Philippines ambassador to the UK. Ask him to convey to his government that they must enforce the laws against the dog meat trade.