Officials: No dog meat on the menu at Los Angeles restaurant

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Dogs wait in cages outside the Langowan traditional market, in Langowan, north Sulawesi, Indonesia. A Los Angeles restaurant doesn't have permission to kill as many as three dogs per day and serve the meat to customers, despite claims in a widely shared false story this week.

The Associated Press •February 20, 2018 10:29 am

A Los Angeles restaurant doesn’t have permission to kill as many as three dogs per day and serve the meat to customers, despite claims in a widely shared false story this week. Health officials say the restaurant doesn’t exist.

A post that has appeared online in various forms since at least 2014 surfaced again recently on the site quotes-news. The Los Angeles County Health Department said it has no record of any restaurant named Puchow de Manila Eatery and Fine Dining. Even if there were such a place, the department said the sale of dog meat for human consumption is illegal in California.

The false story quotes World Animal Protection as being “shocked” about the restaurant but a spokeswoman for that group said it was never asked to comment. A photo linked to the story is from a 2014 New York Times story about a dog meat festival in China.

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