North Koreans are ordered to hand over ‘decadent and bourgeois’ pet dogs for ‘restaurant meat’ as the country is rocked by food shortages

Kim Jong-un has declared that pet dogs are a symbol of capitalist ‘decadence’ and ordered that dogs in Pyongyang be rounded up – and owners are fearful that their beloved pets are being used to solve the nation’s food shortages.

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Animal Welfare Group’s New Report Exposes Size of Vietnam’s Cat Meat Trade

A new report from FOUR PAWS and the Change For Animals Foundation has exposed a significant cat meat trade in Vietnam, affecting an estimated one million cats each year.

A release sharing the results of the investigation said that the cats “are stolen from the streets and even from people’s homes, trafficked across the country and brutally slaughtered.”