‘Extreme’ Indonesian market ends dog, cat meat trade

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A notorious Indonesian animal market has ended the sale of dog and cat meat after years of activist pressure to stop the trade and its brutal methods of slaughter, according to campaigners. | AFP

Indonesia remains one of the few countries in the world that still permits the sale of dog and cat meat due to local traditions and culture.

“The impact will be far-reaching, shutting down business for the traders’ vast network of traffickers, dog thieves, and slaughterers,” Lola Webber, HSI’s director of campaigns to end the dog meat trade, said.The rights group said the agreement has potentially saved the lives of thousands of pups on the island, where as many as 130,000 are slaughtered annually.

Those calls ramped up after the first cluster of the coronavirus outbreak in 2020 was linked to a wet market in the Chinese city of Wuhan, stoking fears elsewhere that viruses were jumping from animals to humans.HSI and Indonesian rights groups are also trying to stop the trade to prevent the spread of the deadly rabies virus.

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