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Ryan Fahey

Caged dogs with 'trusting eyes' butchered and burnt alive for meat at festival

A woman who saves dogs from the meat trade in China has spoken of her heartbreak at seeing the "trust" in the eyes of the animals moments before they're butchered or burned alive.

Julia de Cadenet is the founder of No To Dog Meat, which works with locals in countries like China, Korea, Vietnam and Cambodia, all of which have traditions of butchering, cooking, and eating our four-legged friends.

She set up the non-profit, which also has UN status, in 2009 after witnessing the horrors of live meat markets first-hand.

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