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Indo market dog, cat meat trade ends
By Nidz Godino
"Impact will be far-reaching, shutting down business for traders' vast network of traffickers, dog thieves and slaughterers," Lola Webber, Humane Society International (HSI) director of campaigns to end the dog meat trade, said notorious Indonesian animal market has ended sale of dog and cat meat after years of activist pressure to stop trade and its brutal methods of slaughter.
Canine and feline meat were on menu alongside bats, rats, snakes and monkeys at Tomohon Extreme Market on Sulawesi island, known for its disturbing culinary spread until ban was imposed.
Previously uncompromising bazaar is first such market in the country to finally back down and stop trade of cat and dog meat, animal rights group HSI said in statement.
It called ban "historic agreement that will spare thousands of animals from being bludgeoned and blowtorched to death for human consumption."
Indonesia remains one of few countries in world still permits sale of dog and cat meat due to local traditions and culture.
Market's six remaining dog and cat meat traders signed agreement to stop sale, and the mayor of Tomohon city signed into law ban on future trade at market, group said in statement.
"We hope this unprecedented agreement will set standard."
Rights group said agreement has potentially saved lives of thousands of pups on the island, where as many as 130,000 are slaughtered annually.
Market had courted widespread criticism from activists for methods used to slaughter animals, such as beatings, hangings and blowtorching of fur while they were still alive.
Calls ramped up after first cluster of coronavirus outbreak in 2020 was linked to wet market in Chinese city of Wuhan, stoking fears elsewhere that viruses were jumping from animals to humans.
HSI and Indonesian rights groups are also trying to stop trade to prevent spread of deadly rabies virus.
Elvianus Pongoh, seller at Tomohon for 25 years, said time was right to end trade.
"I have probably slaughtered thousands of dogs...every now and then I would see fear in their eyes... as I came for them, and it made me feel bad," he said in HSI press release.
"I know this ban is best for animals and also best to protect public."
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