08/09/2026
🚨🐾 THIS IS A WORLDWIDE ISSUE — AND SILENCE IS NOT AN OPTION. 🐾🚨
Look closely at this image.
These are not commodities.
They are not sacks of meat.
They are not disposable.
They are dogs. They are living, feeling beings who experience fear, pain, stress, and love. Many are someone’s beloved companion, someone’s family, someone’s missing pet.
The image of dogs tied inside sacks at a dog meat slaughter house in Asia is devastating. But we cannot allow ourselves to look away simply because this suffering is happening thousands of miles from our own homes.
🌎 THIS IS A GLOBAL PROBLEM.
Across parts of Asia, dogs involved in the meat trade have reportedly been taken from streets, markets, communities, and even from outside or near their own homes. There are documented rescue operations involving dogs who were destined for slaughter, including dogs taken from meat farms and trafficking networks.
And we must also ask an uncomfortable question:
Why are dogs STILL being moved across international borders to feed this trade?
Any credible allegation that dogs are being sourced, bred, transported, or exported from the United States for slaughter overseas deserves serious investigation by the appropriate authorities. If this is happening, it must be exposed and stopped.
America cannot claim to value animal welfare while allowing loopholes, inadequate enforcement, or international trafficking networks to put companion animals at risk.
🇺🇸 AMERICA — WE NEED STRONGER LAWS RIGHT NOW!!!
The United States has already taken steps to prohibit the slaughter and commercial movement of dogs and cats for human consumption under federal law. Congress passed legislation in 2018 that prohibited knowingly slaughtering dogs or cats for human consumption and prohibited knowing transportation and related transactions involving dogs or cats destined for that purpose.
But legislation means nothing if loopholes, trafficking, illegal activity, or inadequate enforcement allow animals to continue falling through the cracks.
We are calling for:
🔴 Stronger federal protections and enforcement.
🔴 Serious investigation of any U.S.-based individuals or businesses suspected of supplying dogs to the international meat trade.
🔴 Stronger import/export safeguards and traceability for dogs crossing international borders.
🔴 Severe criminal penalties for individuals who knowingly steal, traffic, torture, slaughter, or knowingly facilitate the trafficking of companion animals for human consumption.
🔴 International cooperation to dismantle trafficking networks.
🔴 Stronger animal-protection laws worldwide.
🔴 Justice for the animals who have already suffered.
And we want to be clear:
WE ARE NOT ATTACKING PEOPLE OR CULTURES.
This is about animal cruelty and criminal exploitation.
There are millions of people throughout Asia who oppose the dog meat trade and are working to end it. South Korea, for example, enacted legislation to prohibit the dog meat industry, with the ban moving toward full implementation in 2027.
This is not about blaming an entire country, continent, culture, or group of people.
This is about holding individuals and organizations accountable when they abuse, steal, traffic, torture, or kill animals.
A dog standing on someone's porch should not disappear into a trafficking network.
A family should not have to wonder whether their stolen dog has ended up in a meat market.
A dog rescued from a street should not become a commodity.
A breeder, transporter, trafficker, broker, slaughterhouse operator, or anyone else knowingly participating in such cruelty should not be able to hide behind borders.
⚖️ THE LAWS NEED TO CHANGE — AND THEY NEED TO BE ENFORCED.
We believe animal cruelty of this magnitude should carry serious criminal consequences, including felony-level penalties where appropriate.
We need laws that recognize what these animals actually are:
Living beings.
We need governments around the world to close loopholes, strengthen enforcement, investigate trafficking, and make it unmistakably clear:
STEALING, TRAFFICKING, TORTURING, AND KILLING COMPANION ANIMALS FOR PROFIT IS NOT ACCEPTABLE.
Not tomorrow.
Not next year.
TODAY.
At The Baxter Busche Foundation LLC, we refuse to believe that the suffering of animals should be ignored because it happens somewhere else.
We will continue to speak.
We will continue to advocate.
We will continue to demand accountability.
And we will continue to fight for the animals who have no voice in the rooms where laws are written.
Because every dog matters.
Every stolen pet matters.
Every life matters.
Not one more dog stolen.
Not one more dog trafficked.
Not one more dog tortured.
Not one more family left searching.
Not one more life treated as a commodity.
🐾 THE TIME FOR CHANGE IS NOW. 🐾
The Baxter Busche Foundation LLC
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