At the end of 2019, the outbreak of coronavirus raged through the globe. 

The international community commonly believed that the epidemic had been caused by eating wild animals. Genlin, the founder of WDA, decided to leverage this news as the entry point. He wrote to the high ranking officials of China’s government calling on the realization of “No wild animal meat for health. No dog and cat meat for morality.

” Genlin’s letter received their positive response.  One month after the reply above, Shenzhen Municipal People’s Congress Standing Committee passed “Shenzhen Special Economic Region Regulation on a Comprehensive Ban on the Consumption of Wild Animals”, which explicitly prohibited the eating of dogs and cats.

On 8 April 2020,China Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs announced “National Catalogue of Livestock and Poultry Genetic Resources”, “specializing” dogs as companion animals.   On 1 May 2020, Shenzhen and Zhuhai officially outlawed the eating of dog meat.

On 1 May 2020, Shenzhen and Zhuhai officially outlawed the eating of dog meat.