aizawl the mizoram government has come under flak from various quarters for its decision to enforce the prevention of cruelty to animals dog breeding and marketing rule 2017 more forcefully and the issue is being hotly debated by netizensa recent meeting of the mizoram state animal welfare board msawb chaired by the states minister for animal husbandry and veterinary lalrinawma decided that the mizoram prevention of cruelty to animals dog breeding and marketing rule 2017 should be implemented more stringentlywhile dogs meat has been widely consumed in the state for a long time enforcement of the rules would amount to prohibition of the killing of dogs for meat and its sale and consumptionaizawl uisa zuar association association of dog meat sellers in aizawl vehemently opposed the decision saying that a persons choice of food should not be curtailed and the state government should not come under pressure from the socalled dog loversrecently the kohima bench of gauhati high court quashed a 2020 government notification which banned the trade and sale of dogs meat in nagalandan order had been issued on july 4 2020 by the office of the nagaland chief secretary banning the commercial import trading of dogs dog markets as well as the commercial sale of dog meat in markets and in dinein restaurantsin its judgment the singlejudge bench of justice marli vankung made a number of observations about what is considered acceptable for human consumption and the extent to which the state can regulate thisthe bench observed that the absence of dogs from the listed animals is not surprising since the consumption of dog meat is limited to some parts of northeastern states