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More than 30 million dogs are eaten in Asia every year. To put that in perspective, in the U.S., about 3.9 million dogs are put in shelters each year, and 1.2 million of those dogs are euthanized. For Marc Ching, this is unacceptable.
At his local level, Ching owns Petstaurant, which provides healthy food for pets, in addition to the Animal Hope and Wellness Foundation, an abused and neglected dog rescue based in the Los Angeles area. Now, he’s upping the ante — and putting his life in danger — by posing undercover as an American businessman looking to buy dog meat from canine slaughterhouses around Asia in order to shine light on their barbarous butchering and torture methods.
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He secretly tapes the horrific butchering methods, which involve extensive torture due to the belief that “scared” meat tastes better. He hopes that raising awareness with the videos will make a difference.
“I have videos of hangings, burning them alive, boiling alive, cutting their feet off while they’re still alive.” As a lover of animals, you can imagine the toll this has taken on him. “You know I’m just losing it out there,” he said. “But I have to go because a part of me feels like if I don’t go nobody else will.” Recently, Ching lost his cool after seeing a dog being cruelly dismembered, and he kicked the butcher in the face, which led to him being beat up by a group of men.
The Humane Society does its part, but the dog-meat industry is so pervasive and so popular, that Ching believes real change will have to start from inside the countries, at the ground level. He hopes his efforts will make a difference in inducing that change.
Each year, the Yulin dog meat festival is decried online, and petitions are signed, while thousands of dogs are tortured in the streets and not much happens. But Marc is putting his life on the line to make a small but important change that will hopefully one day stop the torture of dogs throughout Asia.
Buzzfeed created a deep look into Ching’s efforts to save these dogs, and it’s a touching, heart-wrenching seven minutes.
Please be warned, some of the images in this video are extremely graphic.
(Via Buzzfeed)
