{"id":61061,"date":"2024-01-09T17:32:46","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T08:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/09\/south-korea-votes-to-ban-production-and-sale-of-dog-meat"},"modified":"2024-01-09T17:32:46","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T08:32:46","slug":"south-korea-passes-bill-banning-production-and-sale-of-dog-meat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61061","title":{"rendered":"South Korea passes bill banning production and sale of dog meat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Animal welfare campaigners hail decision as \u2018historic victory\u2019 after years of pressure at home and abroad<\/p>\n<p>South Korea\u2019s parliament has voted to ban the production and sale of dog meat, in a decision campaigners hailed as a \u201chistoric victory\u201d for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/animal-welfare\">animal welfare<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The country\u2019s national assembly voted overwhelmingly to ban the breeding, butchery, distribution and sale of dogs for their meat on Tuesday, after years of pressure at home and abroad.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/09\/south-korea-votes-to-ban-production-and-sale-of-dog-meat\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Animal welfare campaigners hail decision as \u2018historic victory\u2019 after years of pressure at home and abroadSouth Korea\u2019s parliament has voted to ban the production and sale of dog meat, in a decision campaigners hailed as a \u201chistoric victory\u201d for animal &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":344,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[586,265,41,868,78,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-welfare","category-animals","category-asia-pacific","category-dogs","category-life-and-style","category-south-korea","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61062,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61061\/revisions\/61062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}