That all modified on July 21 when Tomohon mayor Caroll Senduk issued an instruction banning the sale of canine and cat meat on the city-owned market.
Although the ban is barely restricted to the market and doesn’t apply to the sale and consumption of canine and cat meat in different elements of town, animal rights activists have lauded the transfer, calling it an essential step in getting the remainder of the nation to comply with go well with.
“(The ban) has a huge symbolic value given that Tomohon market is notorious around the world for the trading and slaughtering of dogs and cats,” Mdm Lola Webber of the non-for-profit group Humane Society International (HSI) informed CNA.
“If we can get such a ban at the Tomohon Extreme Market, it gives hope that others will take similar actions.”
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To date, solely 22 out of 514 cities and regencies throughout Indonesia have issued rules, in a single kind or the opposite, in opposition to the sale of canine and cat meat.
These embody Semarang, Indonesia’s sixth largest metropolis, in addition to Sukoharjo Regency, which was as soon as infamous for its canine and cat meat commerce.
Getting these 22 areas to come back on board within the combat to finish the canine and cat meat commerce has been a protracted battle, activists say, even in cities the place consumption of such meat is low like Jakarta.
The capital metropolis solely handed a directive banning the sale of canine and cat meat final 12 months.
