World Dog Alliance

BGR Government Affairs is handling the Hong Kong-based World Dog Alliance, which is committed to ending the consumption of canines.

The Alliance also works to “promote the harmonious interaction between humans and dogs and reduce the cruelty and abandonment of dogs.”

It claims 30M dogs are slaughtered and eaten in Asia each year. Seventy percent of them were dognapped.

Florida Congressman Alcee Hastings introduced a bill in 2017 to ban the human consumption of dog and cat meat.

President Donald Trump signed that bill into law in 2018.

More than 30 Congressmen sent a letter to Trump in 2019 to support an international convention to prohibit the eating of dogs and cats.

BGR reps the Alliance on animal welfare issues. 

Its lobbying team includes Fred Turner, who was chief of staff for Hastings;  Mark Tavlarides, director of legislative affairs at the National Security Council; Lester Munson, chief of staff for Sen. Mark Kirk; and Maya Seiden, veteran of the Clinton and Obama administrations.