Heart breaking video of a girl who finds her dog roasted and ready for sale.

If you are a dog lover, you could relate to a little girl’s grief as she finds her well-loved pet fully

roasted and ready to be sold by a local meat vendor at a roadside food stall; a few days after her dog went missing for several days.

That photo of the unnamed distraught-looking little girl, who was reported to be from Vietnam, has gone viral on social media and have raised questions on ethics pertaining to the dog-meat trade.

In a report from The People’s Daily, it was shared on Saturday that the little girl’s dog whose name is Flower had wandered off a few days earlier. Her pet dog, reports say, had been with the girl for three years and they are always together until one day, Flower went missing.

The girl went searching for her dog for days, and then she stumbled across her pet at a local dog-meat stand,  already slaughtered and roasted, laid out on a flat woven tray and obviously ready for sale. Loud cries of  “That’s Flower!” could be heard, reports say.

Someone apparently took the photo of the girl as she was crouched down with one hand on her deceased dog’s back. The photo has captured the hearts of people globally; raising concern and ire over the issue of dogs becoming human meal.

In many parts of the world, dogs continue to play the great part of being “man’s best friend”, so it’s a real hot issue when stories of dog becoming meals become known.

In 2013, The Guardian tackled the issue of the black market smuggling of dogs into Vietnam for consumption; reporting that the meat was a highly sought-after product, eaten at special occasions and believed by many to cure a host of medical conditions. The high demand for dog meat, The Guardian said,  particularly in north Vietnam, has reportedly fueled the theft of pet and stray dogs, as what seems to be the case of Flower, the Vietnamese girl’s pet.

Hence, animal lovers and activists who are concerned over animal welfare and the potential transmission of infectious diseases through dog-meat continue to fight against the widespread practice of dog meat consumption. Likewise, clashes continue between dog owners and those who steal their pets.

The difficult part is when eating dog meat is not illegal in some countries, like China. In fact, there is an annual dog eating festival in the Chinese city of Yulin, with an estimated 10,000 dogs slaughtered at the summer solstice event every year, as reported in The Sydney Morning Herald.

China have responded to international outrage by clamping down on the illegal street dog meat sellers, and forcing the trade instead into authorized premises wherein dogs can only be procured from authorized traders and not to be harvested off the street which may pose a risk to human health.

Source: kickerdaily.com