WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT! horror as vile dog meat trader butchered two frightened pets at my feet then boiled them alive': Horrifying defiance of dealers who murder man's best friend

: Simon Parry confronted a dog meat trader in Vietnam over the slaughter of family pets for food - then the trader taunted him by calmly pulling two dogs out of a cage and knifing them before throwing them alive into a vat of boiling water to loosen the fur for skinning. Traders never kill dogs on the street in broad daylight and the brutality of the act shows the enormity of the task facing campaigners against the dog meat trade
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'Most Vietnamese people never see this and have no idea of the cruelty involved in the dog meat trade. They just go to restaurants where the meat is already prepared. If people saw this, I believe many of them would stop eating dog.
'We always try to tell people about the terrible cruelty of the process and what happened here proves it.'
An estimated five million dogs a year – many of them stolen family pets – are eaten in Vietnam with the dog restaurants of Hanoi the top location for illicitly smuggled animals.
Most dogs are trucked into Hanoi from Son Dong, a village 100 miles south of the capital that is the epicentre of the country's massive dog meat industry.
Here, the terrified dogs are kept for days and have food forcibly pumped into their stomachs – some suffocating in the process – to increase their weight before they are stuffed back in cages and trucked to restaurants and slaughterhouses for around two pounds a kilogram.
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