📝 Take Action Now: Help End the Dog & Cat Meat Trade in Vietnam — Urge Mayor Bass to Allow a Vote 🗳️
👉📽️ Click HERE to watch the film. 📽️
Vietnam Anti-Dog & Cat Meat Movie. A Film Mayor Bass Refuses to Confront – and Why Angelenos Should Watch It.
By Jeffrey Mausner 👉 Click HERE to read the CityWatch article.
Every year in Vietnam, approximately five million dogs and one million cats are killed for human consumption, more than 13,000 dogs every single day. Many are beaten, hanged, bled out, or thrown alive into boiling water. Before their deaths, they are crammed into cages and transported in horrific conditions. This is cruelty on a massive scale, and Los Angeles has the power to help end it.
But right now, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is blocking that effort.
We have just completed a documentary film that lays out the facts, the policy history, and the moral stakes surrounding City Council File 25-0193, a motion that would allow Los Angeles to pursue a Sister City relationship with Hanoi while keeping in mind the City’s official policy opposing the dog and cat meat trade. I provided the film to Mayor Bass and her senior staff and asked them to identify if there is anything factually incorrect in it by January 5, 2026. I also asked them to reconsider their decision to hold this motion and prevent it from coming to a vote. To date, there has been no response.
BACKGROUND
In 2019, the Los Angeles City Council unanimously passed a resolution opposing the dog meat trade worldwide, with Vietnam specifically named (City Council File 19-0002-S101). See CityWatch: LA Passes Anti-Dog Meat Resolution Saving Millions of Dogs from Brutal Torture and Death That resolution committed Los Angeles to supporting efforts to end this cruelty.
In 2023, the United States and Vietnam entered into a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, encouraging cities like Los Angeles and Hanoi to deepen ties.
Animal welfare advocates urged Los Angeles to act on its own policy. The Global Anti-Dog Meat Coalition called upon Los Angeles to pursue a Sister City relationship with Hanoi that would help end the dog and cat meat trade. See CityWatch: Five Million Dogs and Cats Desperately Need Saving in Vietnam
In February 2025, City Councilmember Bob Blumenfield introduced City Council File 25-0193, seconded by Council President Marqueece Harris-Dawson. Everything was on track, until Mayor Bass placed a hold on the motion without explanation.
BROAD SUPPORT, NO COST, REAL IMPACT
A Sister City relationship would bring significant benefits to both Los Angeles and Hanoi, including increased trade, tourism, cultural and educational exchanges, and scientific and technological cooperation. It would not cost Los Angeles anything. It would also provide a practical, respectful pathway for Vietnam to end or phase out the dog and cat meat trade.
Public opinion data confirms strong support for this. In Vietnam:
• 68% of Vietnamese support banning dog meat (Nielsen survey, 2023)
• 71% support banning cat meat
• 95% say eating dogs and cats is not part of Vietnamese culture (Four Paws survey)
Learn more HERE.
Call for Action
👉 📧 Click HERE to post a comment on the film on YouTube.
👉 📧 Click HERE to post a comment on the CityWatch article.
📝 Ready-to-Post Sample Comments
📝 Clear & Policy-Focused
Every year in Vietnam, approximately five million dogs and one million cats are killed for human consumption—more than 13,000 dogs every single day. Los Angeles already has an official policy opposing this cruelty. City Council File 25-0193 simply allows LA to pursue a Sister City relationship with Hanoi while advancing that policy. It costs nothing and has broad public support. Mayor Bass should release her hold and allow this motion to come to a vote.
📝 Moral Appeal
This film makes clear that the suffering of millions of dogs and cats is not abstract—it is happening every day. Los Angeles took a stand against the dog and cat meat trade in 2019. Blocking City Council File 25-0193 contradicts that commitment. Mayor Bass should listen to advocates, constituents, and Vietnamese voices calling for change and allow this humane, constructive effort to move forward.
📝 Short & Direct
Los Angeles has the power to help end the dog and cat meat trade—and it costs nothing. City Council File 25-0193 aligns with existing LA policy and has overwhelming public support. Mayor Bass should remove her hold and let the City Council vote.
📝 Public Support Emphasis
With over 3,000 public comments, 14,000 emails, and 80,000 petition signatures, support for City Council File 25-0193 is undeniable. Most people in Vietnam also support banning dog and cat meat and say it is not part of their culture. This Sister City proposal is respectful, practical, and humane. Mayor Bass should allow it to proceed.
📝 Vietnam-Respectful Framing
Ending the dog and cat meat trade is not anti-Vietnam—it is supported by the majority of Vietnamese people. A Sister City relationship between Los Angeles and Hanoi offers a positive, collaborative path forward. Mayor Bass should allow City Council File 25-0193 to proceed.
📝 Film-Specific (YouTube)
This documentary clearly explains the history, policy, and public support behind City Council File 25-0193 before showing the reality of the dog and cat meat trade. The facts are well documented. Mayor Bass should respond to the film and reconsider her decision to block a vote.
📝 Urgency-Focused
Every day this motion is stalled, another 13,000 dogs and 2,700 cats suffer and die. City Council File 25-0193 offers a real, respectful way to help end this cruelty. Mayor Bass should lift the hold immediately.
📝 Compassionate but Firm
I urge Mayor Bass to watch this film in full and listen to the advocates, veterans, and Vietnamese-American voices supporting this effort. Los Angeles can lead with compassion and integrity by allowing City Council File 25-0193 to move forward.
📝 VERY SHORT COMMENTS (1–2 sentences)
Los Angeles already opposes the dog and cat meat trade. Mayor Bass should lift her hold on City Council File 25-0193 and allow a vote.
This Sister City proposal costs nothing and has broad public support. Blocking it contradicts LA’s own humane policies.
Every day this motion is stalled, thousands of dogs and cats suffer and die. Please let CF 25-0193 move forward.
Ending the dog and cat meat trade is supported by most Vietnamese people. This is about compassion and collaboration, not politics.
Mayor Bass should respond to the facts presented in this film and explain why she is blocking CF 25-0193.
📝 YOUTUBE-STYLE COMMENTS (Conversational & Film-Focused)
This film lays out the policy, history, and public support very clearly. LA already opposes the dog and cat meat trade—there is no reason to block CF 25-0193 from a vote.
Thank you for making a documentary that focuses on facts and solutions, not just shock. A Sister City relationship with Hanoi is a respectful path toward ending this cruelty.
The first part of this film is essential viewing for anyone questioning this issue. Mayor Bass should watch it fully and release her hold on the motion.
Powerful and well-documented. This is exactly the kind of leadership Los Angeles should be showing.
📝 CITYWATCH-STYLE COMMENTS (Policy-Oriented & Civic)
City Council File 25-0193 aligns directly with LA’s 2019 resolution opposing the dog meat trade. Placing a hold on it undermines an existing, unanimous policy position.
A Sister City relationship with Hanoi would bring economic and cultural benefits while advancing animal welfare. There is no fiscal downside—only moral leadership.
Public support is overwhelming, both in Los Angeles and in Vietnam. Mayor Bass should explain her reasoning or allow the democratic process to proceed.
This article and film make a compelling case that CF 25-0193 is thoughtful, respectful, and long overdue.
📝 COMMENTS THAT DIRECTLY ADDRESS MAYOR BASS (Respectful but Firm)
Mayor Bass, please allow City Council File 25-0193 to come to a vote. Transparency and leadership matter on this issue.
I respectfully urge Mayor Bass to reconsider the hold on CF 25-0193 and honor Los Angeles’s longstanding commitment to ending animal cruelty.
Silence in response to this film raises serious concerns. The public deserves an explanation.
📝 OPTIONAL CALL-TO-ACTION TAG (Supporters can add to any comment)
Please lift the hold on City Council File 25-0193 and let the City Council vote.
👉 📧 Click HERE to write to the Vietnamese government.
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Please stop the killing of dogs now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What the hell is wrong with you people? Stop this abuse, torture and killing of innocent animals. God is watching you and you are all going to hell.
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 President of Vietnam. We live in 2026 and this abomination must end!
Those who visit this COUNTRY of HORRORS have the obligation to scrutinize its shocking ways of animal abuse and TAKE ACTION!
Please outlaw this horrendous , sickening, cruel treatment of these dogs and cats. It is gut-wrenching. God never intended this for these animals. They are our best friends. Shame on you for allowing it. Please stop it.
Please stop. The world wants you to stop. Cruel and inhumane, you know it is.
Please stop dog and cat meat trade. Very cruel and inhumane.
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Mayor Bass, please allow the vote! Respect democracy!