Nov 10, 2019

Secretary General António Guterres

United Nations Headquarters, New York, NY, 10017, United States.

Regarding: Change. org petition

United Nations Secretary General António Guterres and UN Organizations!  Sanction Philippines for the Horrific actions of Animal Cruelty!

Please watch this video: https://youtu.be/uDGnTgA8yLs 

Not only are we experiencing it up to this moment, sufferings of innocent animals are ahead if we don't take action. 

This should be an awareness to everyone. 

Stepping Up Enforcement
The illegal dog meat industry in the Philippines results in the physical and mental suffering of hundreds of thousands of dogs each year and comes at a significant cost to human health and potential damage to the Philippines’ reputation.

In order to successfully ban the trade in dogs for human consumption, mechanisms to enforce the national law should be established at the provincial, municipal, and village level in key areas where the dog meat industry continues to thrive.

It is crucial to work with local communities to raise awareness of the risks the dog meat industry poses to both human health and animal welfare, and for local law enforcers to be equipped with the skills, knowledge and motivation to enforce existing laws.

Our objective is to get the Department of Interior and Local Government to ensure that local governments and police in the dog meat regions consistently and aggressively enforce the national law, and make a serious effort to close down all dog meat operations (Animal Welfare Institute, 2016). Furthermore, help PAWS ( Philippine Animal Welfare Society) and the International Animal Rescue to sustain and have bigger amount of funds to let the animals be taken cared of. 

The following law in place is: via Republic Act No. 8485, known as the Animal Welfare Act.

However the law has in place a loophole of which states: with exemptions for dogs and cats killed and eaten as part of indigenous rituals. Say No To Dog Meat has located evidence that shows the following "ritualistic slaughter festivals" involving the killing of dogs and cats is being exploited where to date a staggering 50,000+ dogs and some 20,000+ cats are said to be killed just in the Philippines alone. 

According to the Animal Welfare Institude, While most Westerners view dogs strictly as companion or working animals and find the practice of raising and slaughtering dogs for food strange and unsettling, a large number of people in South Korea as well as in China, Vietnam, and the Philippines, consume dog meat. 

According to ESDAW, The killing and selling of dogs for food was banned in the capital city of Manila in 1982. A similar ban was enacted nationally in 1998, with the Animal Welfare Act (Republic Act No. 8485). The Act prohibits killing dogs for food, with minimum penalties set at 1,000 pesos (equivalent to about $US22 at the time) and not less than six months in prison.

The Anti-Rabies Act (RA 9482), passed in 2007, includes more severe penalties, with minimum fines of 5,000 pesos per dog and not less than one year of imprisonment for trading in dogs for meat. Despite the sanctions encoded in the law, however, law enforcement officials do little to stop this illegal trade. Not only in the Philippines but around the world.

 Every single human being should have the determination and empathy for living beings! Where is the love?We hope for action and take a stand regarding Animal Cruelty!