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Taiwan's parliament has approved a bill banning the slaughter of cats and dogs for human consumption. The bill also prohibits those using a car or motorbike from pulling their pets alongside them on a lead as they travel. Anyone caught breaching the order faces a large fine or up to two years in prison - and having their names and photographs made public.
The measures were introduced to improve the country's animal protection laws. The move on Tuesday is a landmark amendment to Taiwan's Animal Protection Act, and is the first of its kind in Asia.
Taiwan had already banned the sale of meat and fur from cats and dogs in 2001.
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(Score: 2) by KiloByte on Thursday April 13 2017, @11:32AM
I can somewhat understand the irrational attachment to dogs -- emotional people somehow believe all dogs are those fluffy furballs they have at home. But there are worse cases: for example, Americans have a kind-of-religious aversion to horse meat, universally breaking their own laws to make sure horse meat is effectively illegal even when officially permitted (by tricks like mandating inspections but not actually providing them in any single state). And what exactly makes horses holy? They're no different from cows.
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