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How we kept fighting to save dogs and end the dog meat trade in 2022
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Lola Webber, director of campaigns to end dog meat at Humane Society International, comforts one of the 18 dogs rescued from a slaughterhouse in Thai Nguyen, Viet Nam, in 2022.
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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.
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
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From the college cafeteria to the corporate supply chain, from the U.S. Supreme Court to COP27, we saw the treatment of farmed animals getting the attention it deserves this year.
We were nervous and excited as we gathered outside the Supreme Court of the United States on the morning of a day we won't ever forget, Oct. 11, 2022. The court was about to hear arguments about