Up to 30,000 dogs are smuggled across borders from Thailand and into Vietnam and Laos to be sold for its meat. The dogs are sold by traffickers for an average of $10 a dog, thus creating an estimated $3.6 Million illegal market.
Source: Patrick Winn, “The Dog Meat Mafia: Corruption,” GlobalPost, November 27, 2009.
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