This is the first farm that HSI has found where the connection between South Korea's dog meat industry and pet puppy trade is clear Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working ...

Four out of 10 dog farms in Korea have closed their doors since the country legislated a law banning dog meat consumption last year, the Agriculture Ministry said Monday. Of the total 1,537 dog ...

On a recent visit to South Korea, we went inside two farms where dogs would either be sold off as meat or to illegal dog fighting rings. We also spoke with the farmers to get their perspectives on ...

South Korea's dog meat industry will soon be a distant memory. But hundreds of thousands of other dogs are still languishing in terrible conditions on dog meat farms for a meat that very few ...

When driving or walking around Jeollanam-do, the rural countryside region where I lived during my first year in South Korea, I often saw dog meat farms consisting of rusty, brown cages stacked on top ...

It’s also the only nation with industrial-scale dog farms. South Korea’s anti-dog meat campaign received a big boost from the country’s first lady, Kim Keon Hee, who repeatedly expressed ...

SEOUL--South Korea on Thursday said it’ll launch ... s launch is nothing but a formality to shut down their farms and dog meat restaurants, while activists argue the government’s announcement ...

Speaking of the estimated 17,000 dog meat farms in South Korea, Cowell said: “It is a strength, in my opinion, to say we’re not going to do it. If they all could come together now, maybe ...

"We call her 'Julie' for short. We rescued Julie from a dog meat farm in a district about 100 miles from Seoul, Korea. She spent her first two years being bred for puppy mills. She was used over and ...