Dog, it's not for dinner anymore

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[#ff0000]Taiwan Lawmakers Ban Selling of Dog Meat[/#ff0000] [url "http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ap/brand/SIG=br2v03/*http://www.ap.org"][/url]



TAIPEI, Taiwan - [font "arial"]Taiwan's lawmakers have banned the selling of dog meat and have introduced heavy fines for killing pets for food or fur. [/font]

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The new measure strengthened an existing ban on the slaughtering of pets for use of their meat and skin ([url "http://us.rd.yahoo.com/DailyNews/manual/*http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news?p=%22skin%22&c=&n=20&yn=c&c=news&cs=nw"][#0000ff]news[/#0000ff][/url] - [url "http://us.rd.yahoo.com/DailyNews/manual/*http://tv.yahoo.com/tvpdb?d=tvi&cf=0&id=1808488043"][#0000ff]web sites[/#0000ff][/url]).



Animal rights activists had protested that the original ban had not stopped the killing of the animals, and that a ban on trading was necessary to give the law more teeth.



When they passed the law on Tuesday, legislators also introduced tougher fines for offenders.



The new animal protection law included fines ranging from $1,500 to $7,300.



The fines also were applicable to those illegally killing pets. In the original version of the law, the fines were limited to a range from $58 to $300. [/font]
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hey there bud, aint, that one of those countries that been hungered most all their lives.?? seems there 2 things goin on here huh? but they probably been eatin em like we been eatin deer fer centuries too, cause they ain,t got much to eat?? and then them ones that don,t like em eatin em can feed em. huh?? doubt that huh?? i figure their pets, but i live here and i ain,t starvin to death either. to them it,s probably natural, it,s just another power and control fer these suckers again. who are we to judge, what they eat. over there? like to see them starvin to death then see what they,d eat. huh??? but they can use beautiful dogs fer lab rats though can,t they. and git awya with it. [unsure][crazy] oh the web thing didn,t come thru again.
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