 After a massive world-wide letter campaign and with helps from other local animal welfare groups, the Benguet local government gave in.In May 2006, PAWS met with the National Meat Inspection Services, a division of the Philippine Department of Agriculture.Some of the main goals of the meeting were to close the loophole in the Animal Welfare Act of 1998, prevent circumvention in the law, and establish clear methods of enforcing the law.