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***  What is fundamental to the practice of dog and cat eating is that the cruelty is often deliberate and slaughter methods are designed to intensify and prolong the suffering in the misguided belief that 'torture equals taste'.

***  Dog eating is illegal in Hong Kong, Korea and the Philippines and was banned in Taiwan in 2001.

***  It is estimated that as many as 30% of the dogs sold for food in Korea are stolen pets.

***  ANIMAL PEOPLE estimates that 35-50 million dogs and 4 million cats are butchered each year for human consumption in Asia, as of 2003.

***  In Korea, contrary to popular belief, dog eating is a relatively recent phenomenon and has never been a part of their culinary history. The fabrication of dog and cat meat as an age-old part of Korean cultural heritage is a marketing strategy by unscrupulous vendors who are exploiting an easy to produce commodity.

***  There are numerous conflicting beliefs regarding dog eating, for example dogs are eaten in the summer months in Korea to cool the body down, whilst in China they are eaten in the winter to warm the body.

***  In situations where the torture is not deliberate, the method of slaughter is still tragically cruel. Markets in China, reveal killing methods which leave both dogs and cats
suffering a lingering, violent death as they are either bludgeoned over the head, stabbed in the neck or groin, hung, electrocuted or thrown conscious into drums of boiling water.