Hanoi is a “city for peace” [a title granted by the UNESCO in 1999] that draws in countless visitors every year, the department’s deputy director, Ta Van Tuong, said at a workshop held Tuesday to go over the intake of the meat.
So the massacre, sale and intake of dog and cat meat might produce “tensions” amongst travelers, particularly foreign visitors and migrants residing in the city, he said.
He desired Hanoi to be a “city that says no to dog and cat meat” on a trial basis to start with.
Tuong said the city ought to tighten up management on slaughterhouses and businesses trading processed dog and cat meat.
Those that break health safety policies will be closed down, which would decrease the variety of centers, he said.
The city ought to likewise capture roaming dogs and those roaming on the streets without their owners, and take them to shelters to keep them far from dog burglars, who offer the animals to slaughterhouses.
Rahul Sehgal, director of global advocacy at Thai NGO Soi Dog Foundation International, which works to enhance the well-being of dogs and cats in Asia, said the restriction on sale and intake of dog and cat meat is an efficient tool and Hanoi might pilot it.
He said his NGO is dedicated to supporting the advancement of legal structures and interaction activities to alter individuals’s viewpoints on dog and cat meat.
Some individuals explained that consuming dog and cat is an ancient practice in Vietnam, therefore, to get rid of, it is essential to raise public awareness and inform individuals.
In the long term, interaction projects require to be executed in such a method regarding alter habits based upon clinical proof and concentrate on individuals who trade dogs and cats for meat.
In a 2021 report, Four Paws, a worldwide animal well-being organization based in Austria, explained that the sell dog and cat meats “runs in breach of existing laws and policies relating to contagious illness control, sanitation, cross border transport, theft, and animal well-being.
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“The real scale of the threats the dog and cat meat trade positions to both public and animal health is hard to measure offered the nature of the operations of the trade, its dependence on a supply of animals of unidentified health status and origins, in addition to prohibited operations.
“However, there is installing proof that the trade positions considerable threats to international health – on top of widely known zoonotic threats of the trade that have actually straight been seen, such as rabies and anthrax.”
It said over 5 million dogs and cats are offered in Vietnam yearly for meat, representing a neighborhood health threat.
Data from Hanoi’s farming department reveals the city has 421,000 – 460,000 dogs and cats and the number is increasing.
Since 2018 the city has actually been advising individuals to quit the practice of consuming dog and cat meats.
In 2021 the department proposed a restriction on the sale of dog meat in downtown locations.
The head of the department’s Sub-Department of Livestock and Veterinary Medicine, Nguyen Ngoc Son, said the variety of individuals who consumed dog meat reduced in 2015, however projects versus it have actually not been “genuinely efficient” due to the fact that it is hard to alter a long-lasting practice.
In Vietnam, Hoi An is presently the only city to effect a restriction.
It phased out dog and cat meat intake in 2021 as part of efforts to end up being a tourist-friendly location.
