For the Philippine dog meat trade investigations, the Linis Gobyerno (Clean Governance/www.linisgobyerno.org) a Non-government Organization (NGO) based in Baguio City, Philippines, was tapped to  assist our investigative team. The team sent to the Philippines on September 2005  to document on a first hand basis were Martin Hannz, John Stack and Deborah  Jones, all veteran investigatigative journalists in active practice of their craft, that  includes contributions  and  participation  to various US-based broadsheets, news magazines  and other international print media fora.

Some of you may find the information contained in this website to be offensive to your morals and/or  sensibilities; we wish to apologize for this. However,  it is our clients' and benefactors' desire that the plain and unadulterated facts be stated as they are, no more no less. This being the case, we at Beyond Borders Reporting are left with no choice, but to present to you the cold and hard facts on the dog meat trade presently existing in Baguio City, Benguet Province and other parts of the Cordillera Region in the Philippines. 

We agree and share in the vision of Linis Gobyerno (Clean Governance) that the present Philippines national shame, i.e. the dog meat trade can be reduced to an insignificant  bare minimum if not totally eradicated in due time, if and when the concerned Philippines  officials  choose to have it stopped.  

Aside from the information and documentation on the trade contained in this website, we enjoin you to help out in the proposed steps and measures, course(s) of action that all dog and animal lovers can take to help put a stop to this inhumane act.

Finally, I leave you to ponder and dwell on the  words of Arthur Schopenhauer, (1788 – 1860) German Philosopher: “Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.”
 

Keith Paxton
Facilitator

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We believe that the Golden Rule applies to animals, too. We don't accept the prevailing notion that "people comes first" or that "humans are more important than animals." Animals feel pain and suffer just as we do, and it is almost always humans making animals suffer and not the other way around. Yet in spite of how cruelly people behave towards animals - not to mention human cruelty to other humans - we are supposed to believe that humans are superior to other animals. If people want to fancy themselves as being of greater moral worth than the other creatures on this earth, we should begin behaving better than they do, and not worse. Let's start treating everyone as we would like to be treated ourselves.