dog meat is subject to the food sanitation act/food hygiene act of 1962, which simply defines food" as "all foodstuff, except taken as medicine". however, unlike beef, pork, or poultry, dog meat is excluded from the list of livestock under the livestock processing act of 1962, which is "the principal statute governing hygienic slaughtering of livestock and processing of meat." hence, dog meat farming is under-regulated compared to that of other stock animals.