STOP Vietnam’s Dog & Cat Meat Trade: LA Sister City Project Needs Your Voice NOW!
On January 9, 2024, the National Assembly of South Korea voted unanimously to ban the killing and eating of dogs nationwide. Now, Vietnam must follow. The brutal reality of Vietnam’s dog and cat meat trade demands immediate action. Millions of innocent animals endure unimaginable suffering, subjected to horrific cruelty in the name of consumption.
Driven by the tireless efforts of animal advocate Jeffrey Mausner and the Valley Alliance of Neighborhood Councils (VANC) members, Los Angeles has a unique opportunity to leverage its influence and create meaningful change. Building upon their successful efforts to condemn the dog meat trade in South Korea and beyond, VANC is now spearheading the “Sister City Project,” aimed at establishing a conditional relationship with Hanoi, Vietnam, that hinges on ending this barbaric practice. This initiative aligns with Los Angeles’ existing official stance against the dog meat trade, as clearly outlined in City Council Resolution 19-0002-S101.
The path to ending this cruelty lies in establishing a sister city relationship with Hanoi, contingent upon a commitment to ban or phase out the dog and cat meat trade. This approach aligns with the spirit of the recent U.S.-Vietnam Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, which encourages such collaborations and offers mutual benefits, including increased economic and cultural exchanges. By conditioning this partnership on animal welfare, Los Angeles can send a powerful message and directly influence policy in Vietnam. The time for passive observation is over. Your voice is critical in urging the Los Angeles City Council to support File #25-0193 and solidify this sister city relationship with a clear mandate against the dog and cat meat trade. We must act now to save millions of lives and demonstrate that compassion and progress can go hand-in-hand. Thank you!
👉 Read more about the issue: HERE.
👉 Learn more about the horror: HERE (Warning: Graphic Content)
TAKE ACTION NOW:
End Vietnam’s Dog & Cat Meat Trade!
Submit your public comment to the LA City Council (File #25-0193) to support the “Sister City Project,” establishing a sister city relationship with Hanoi, contingent upon a commitment to ban or phase out the dog and cat meat trade, and help stop this cruelty! (⏲️ Only takes 1-2 minutes) Here’s how:
Step 1. Go to the Los Angeles City Council File: HERE.
Step 2. Click “NEW” (document with pencil icon) to comment. Or, go directly to the comment form: HERE.
💡 Tarzana Neighborhood Council Community Impact Statement: HERE
💡 Jeff Mausner and VANC’s Public Comment: HERE
Step 3. Complete the form:
- Name (📌 Name is Optional. Name will be public if provided. You can leave it blank or use initials.)
- Email (Required: Private)
- Council File #: 25-0193 (auto-filled)
- Comments for Public Posting:
“I support City Council File 25-0193 to end dog and cat meat in Vietnam. I am against the abuse and killing of dogs and cats. I urge Los Angeles to stop this practice. Please vote yes.“✍️ Add your own thoughts up to 5,000 characters.
Step 4. Confirm via email! (Check your inbox)
Your comment will appear on the Council File as “Communication(s) from Public” within 1-2 days. Thank you!💗🐶 😸 🐕 🐈
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This must stop now!!!
This is barbaric. It has to stop.
I support City Council File 25-0193 to end dog and cat meat in Vietnam. I am against the abuse and killing of dogs and cats. I urge Los Angeles to stop this practice. Please vote yes.“
This has to stop now. No animal should be treated this way. They all need loving homes!!!
Please stop this sick and inhumane behavior
SICKENING!!! The people who participate in this horrible trade and consumption of dogs and cats should be locked up permanently for their actions.
Please stop this bullying and violence against animals 🙏🏻🙏🏻 Dogs and cats are human friends! Your generation will be responsible for your mistakes!!! Stop it!!! Where is your pity, because dogs and cats are living creatures!!! They feel pain, just like you do! A dog IS A MAN’S FRIEND! How can you torture them, mock them, beat them, torture them, broadcast them, burn them and throw them alive into boiling water??? 😢😢💔💔💔💔😢😢😢 PLEASE HELP 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 STOP EATING DOGS ( dog meat ) AND CATS !!!
Please stop all this killing.
No more dog and cat meat.
Man’s best friend not food
Stop this horror now! Silvia Suppo
This horror must end. Inkl never travel in a country that treat dogs like that.
This is horrendous action by an ignorant lot of people. Dogs are man’s best friend and should be treated as such! Little wonder there is so much human suffering and it is the payback for the animal suffering!
Please stop this barbaric killing of dog and cat meat. Its time to put an end to the torture and suffering of these animals.
please stop this barbarism
This needs to stop.. This is no way to treat any animal… they need loving homes..
BASTA YA EL HOLOCAUSTRO ANIMAL EN EL SIGLO QUE ESTAMOS. ESO NO ES CULTURA, ES PSICOPATÍAS, PSOCIOPATIAS QUE LOS GOBIERNOS PERMITEN.
I look at this people who think it’s ok to treat these beautiful innocent animals with such disgusting cruelty I cry for them every time I see these poor broken companions of ours just asking for help with there beautiful eyes as they can’t speak then we must stop this evil I for one feel that in this century there is no place for this and no need to do this so please don’t let them go on with this stop the world is watching in disgust
please stop this disgusting violence against innocent animals.
Please, please help stop this awful cruelty of dear dogs immediately. Obscene cruelty in the form of mental and physical
STOP Vietnam’s Dog & Cat Meat Trade: LA Sister City Project Needs Your Voice NOW!
“I support City Council File 25-0193 to end dog and cat meat in Vietnam. I am against the abuse and killing of dogs and cats. I urge Los Angeles to stop this practice. Please vote yes.“
Stop this barbarity.
The world see you !!!!
How can human do this to these animals? They are family loving and loyal helping humans in emergencies and help fighting crime by working with police and used in the military to help in wars. They are used in disasters when earthquakes happen and this is how we treat them by killing them in horrendous ways and eating them, how disgusting is this to do this to our most loyal loving pets.
stop killing angels imidiatly!
Please stop torturing these innocent animals !
Stop the torture!
HOW LONG will the WORLD watch unspeakable tortures inflicted on dogs and cats at Vietnam’s dog-meat markets and do nothing about it. How can you talk about “peace” and “democracy” while shocking horrors are regularly committed on defenseless, loving and innocent animals in front of your eyes! Skinning dogs and cats alive, cooking them alive and other appalling tortures shall NOT BE SILENCED, but openly directed to the Prime Minister and the President of Vietnam. We live in 2025 and this abomination must end! There is enough violence in the world, and Vietnam continues to brutalize people through allowing shocking animal tortures.
Those who visit this COUNTRY of HORRORS have the obligation to scrutinize its shocking ways of animal abuse and TAKE ACTION!
Beyond inhuman, dogs and cats are our best friends.
Please end the dog and cat meat trade, they should be treated humanely
STOP THESE HORRIBLE TORTURES ON POOR DEFENCELESS ANIMALS!!!! WE ARE IN THE 21ST CENTURY WE MUST EVOLVE!!!!!!!!!!!!! STOP THE GREAT MISTREATMENT OF ANIMALS!!!! NO MORE MEAT, DOGS OR CATS, THERE ARE OTHER FOODS!!!!
please stop this barbaric practice. These are innocent animals that don’t deserve torture. please
Il est malsain de consommer des chiens et des chats ! Il y a d’autres manières de se nourrir sainement. Abandonnez ces pratiques cruelles ! Ayez pitié de ces animaux. Votre santé s’en portera mieux aussi !!!
Stop the horrible cruelty!
Stop cruelty and abuse!!! Please let them go!!
Please, please, please, find a way to end the dog and cat meat trade. These animals are a gift from God. They love us, protect us, and bless us with so much joy and companionship. They go to wars for us, help to heal us through therapy, and love us unconditionally. The sad thing is that these dogs and cats living in the most horrid conditions, with all of the cruelty they have experienced, would still love us no matter what. Set them free. End the trade. Please give them the life they deserve. There are other ways to make a living. You know this. Find your heart and do what you know is right. Thank you.
Kind regards,
Stop à cette cruauté ..
IT IS CRUEL TO EAT DOGS AND CATS. THIS MUST BE STOPPED IMMEDIATELY. VICIOUS, DISGUSTING.
There’s EVIL in this world & it starts with these brutes.
STOP THIS NOW, THESE CARE INNOCENT ANIMALS. ENOUGH OF THIS BARBARITY.
Stop that abomination right now
Wir leben im 21.Jahrhundert und deshalb ist es einfach nicht zu begreifen, dass es noch einige Länder gibt, in denen hilflose Hunde und Katzen, gequält und aufs Grausamste getötet werden und was noch unbegreiflicher ist, deren Fleisch gegessen wird! Eine Schande für das ganze Land und deren Regierung, dass nicht endlich die Züchtung, der Verkauf und Transport, sowie die Schlachtungen gesetzlich verboten werden. Es ist ein Land mit grausamen Menschen, das man lieber meiden sollte. Die Regierung ist erneut gefragt, endlich zu handeln und nicht tatenlos zuzusehen!!!
Stop this abhorrent brutal killing!
This is cruel, please end this immediately
show humanity and compassion!
These are living beings that feel pain and fear. There is no excuse for torture and abuse of ANY animal let alone a companion animal.
We all share this beautifully, diverse Earth. As human beings we are considered the highest in the hierarchy and therefore expected to be the caretakers of the sentient beings we One with On this planet. Instead, we have resorted to barbaric treatment of these amazingly species that we stilldon’t even entirely understand. Both dogs and cats have provided connection and love, healing loneliness, and giving a sense of peace and connection to those in need. How much more might we discover about these animals? We have chosen to ignore the gift that they are, and put them below us. There is a disconnection going on in the world and with stance comesa lack of compassion and empathy.It is only a small step to go from being barbaric with animals to being barbaric with human beings. We are on this earth to be the best of ourselves that we can possibly be. In doing so we will understand ourselves better and see those on the outside with compassion and and become aware that we are here to grow to be better human beans I being heartwise’. When seeing reality through the lens of another’s lifee, and how we all truly are interconnected, we then realize we were not alone. Cats and dogs have taught us that with their companionship and faithfulness. With all of these awareness on our part empathy then forms and compassion becomes the norm. Please people, do the right thing! How you treat and what you do to others is a mirror of what you feel about yourself.
Signed and confirmed.
Praying for end to this horror.
I am in support of city council file #25-01to put an end to the dog/cat trade in Vietnam. This horrific & cruel practice must end!
When the time comes for you to stand before GOD (AND IT WILL COME) you cannot tell God, others told me to do this, or it was not convenient at the time, that will not work, you will be judged by God for your crimes!!
Eating dogs is truly sick.
We have been all time living near them, well each person can have an specific animal.
I always had dogs, more than 1 at same time.
As a animal lover and a Vegan, im complety against any animal abuse.
We must protect them, not killing.
Stop this, please!
This has to stop now!!!
Because of Vietnam’s criminal atrocities towards animals, cats and dogs, I have been boycotting ALL products from Vietnam. No traveling to Vietnam and all Vietnamese restaurants boycotted in the States UNTIL Vietnam decides to become a civilized nation! Until then, never any respect for Vietnam!
Ban Vietnamese dog and cat tortures and eating!
This is a barbaric treatment towards intelligent animals. Please stop this!
Please stop this cruelty
PLEASE PEOPLEGO THAT PAGE AND SEND MESSAGE!!!
IT TAKES 30 SECONDS FOR YOUR LIFE BUT IT MEANS EVERYTHING FOR THOSE INNOCENT ANIMALS!!!
SO LET’S DO THIS TOGETHER, LETS END THOSE HORRIBLE KILLINGS FOR NOTHING!!!