South Korea bans selling dog meat for consumption, ending controversial practice

Activists and dog lovers cheered as South Korea’s parliament passed a bill on Tuesday to end the selling and slaughtering for consumption of dog meat — a move that would outlaw the controversial centuries-old practice amid growing support for animal welfare.

Speaking after the bill was passed, anti-dog meat campaign manager of the Humane Society International Lee Sang-kyung said the group’s priority from now will be to rescue dogs abandoned in dog farms and help find them new owners.

Proposed by the ruling party, the bill was passed by an overwhelming 208 votes with two abstentions in the single-chamber parliament after its bipartisan agriculture committee approved it on Monday.

Pet owners welcomed the news, but others said dog meat consumption has been the country’s tradition and is a matter of preference.

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