House Simple Resolution 30
115th Congress(2017-2018)
Condemning the Dog Meat Festival in Yulin, China, and urging China to end the dog meat trade.
Introduced
Introduced in House on Jan 6, 2017
Origin Chamber
House
Type
Simple Resolution
Simple Resolution
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Bill Number
30
Congress
115
Policy Area
International Affairs
International Affairs
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No House votes have been held for this bill.
Summary
Condemns the Dog Meat Festival in Yulin, China, because it: (1) is a spectacle of extreme animal cruelty, (2) is a commercial activity not grounded in Chinese history, (3) is opposed by a majority of the Chinese people, and (4) threatens global public health.
Urges:
- the government of China and the Yulin authorities to ban the killing and eating of dogs as part of Yulin's festival and to enforce China's food safety laws regulating the processing and sale of animal products and the 2011 Agriculture Ministry of China Regulation on the Quarantine of Dogs at the Place of Origin requiring one certificate for one dog on trans-provincial transport trucks, and
- the National People's Congress of China to enact an animal anticruelty law that bans the dog meat trade.
Affirms the commitment of the United States to the protection of animals and to the progress of animal protection.
January 6, 2017
02/16/2017
Referred to the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific.
01/06/2017
Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
01/06/2017
Introduced in House
Public Record
Record Updated
Jan 11, 2023 1:34:11 PM