Pet Lovers Protest Cats On The Menu In China

[Psychoblues]

Even though I've been there and seen it, I still have a problem with even the imagination of it?!?!?????!?!??!?

By WILLIAM FOREMAN
Associated Press Writer

Dec 18, 9:06 PM EST

GUANGZHOU, China (AP) -- While animal lovers in Beijing protested the killing of cats for food on Thursday, a butcher in Guangdong province - where felines are the main ingredient in a famous soup - just shrugged her shoulders and wielded her cleaver. "Cats have a strong flavor. Dogs taste much better, but if you really want cat meat, I can have it delivered by tomorrow," said the butcher, who gave only her surname, Huang.

It was just this attitude that outraged about 40 cat lovers who unfurled banners in a tearful protest outside the Guangdong government office in Beijing. Many were retirees who care for stray felines they said were being rounded up by dealers.

"We must make them correct this uncivilized behavior," said Wang Hongyao, who represented the group in submitting a letter urging the provincial government to crack down on traders and restaurants, although they were breaking no laws.

The protest was the latest clash between age-old traditions and the new sensibilities made possible by China's growing affluence. Pet ownership was once rare because the Communist Party condemned it as bourgeois and most people simply couldn't afford a cat or dog.

The protesters' indignation was whipped up by recent reports in Chinese newspapers about the cat meat industry. On Monday, the Southern Metropolis Daily - a Guangdong paper famous for its exposes and aggressive reporting - ran a story that said about 1,000 cats were transported by train to Guangdong each day.

The animals came from Nanjing, a major trading hub for cats, the newspaper said. They were brought to market by dealers on motorcycles, crammed into wooden crates and sent to Guangdong on trains. A photo showed a cat with green eyes peering from a crowded crate.


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Bon Appetite'!!!!!!!!!!!! Ewwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Psychoblues

[darin]

Racists...

[namvet]

they'll eat anything over there. nothing's off limit.................

[namvet]

welcome to the orient. I got so sick of seeing this. and the smell yuck !!!!

[Noir]

How horrid, yet it is not only the east were animals face such a fate, cows, pigs, chickens ect are regularly slaughtered so we may eat their flesh.

Taste the meat in your mouth as you savour the flavour of murder...

[stephanie]

doesn't seem like there would be much meat on a cat, unless it's a really fat one..

I've eaten a lot of animals, not sure I'd like to eat a cat..

the flavor of MURDER taste pretty dang good right off the BBQ..

[Noir]

doesn't seem like there would be much meat on a cat, unless it's a really fat one..

I've eaten a lot of animals, not sure I'd like to eat a cat..

the flavor of MURDER taste pretty dang good right off the BBQ..

There ain't a huge Lot of meat on chickens either, but they are selectivly breed and pumped full of shit to fatten them up, creatures created purly to murder and eat.

It's a death for no reason, and death for no reason is murder.

[stephanie]

There ain't a huge Lot of meat on chickens either, but they are selectivly breed and pumped full of shit to fatten them up, creatures created purly to murder and eat.

It's a death to no reason, and death for no reason is murder.

well, we should stop killing them and let them overtake the world...maybe we could elect them into office..

[namvet]

well, we should stop killing them and let them overtake the world...maybe we could elect them into office..

hint: their already in office

[Noir]

well, we should stop killing them and let them overtake the world...maybe we could elect them into office..

So if we don't murder and eat all the cows try will take over the world!!!
Sorry I never realized.
I guess cats where starting to over taake china and this is the Chinese response?

[stephanie]

So if we don't murder and eat all the cows try will take over the world!!!
Sorry I never realized.
I guess cats where starting to over taake china and this is the Chinese response?

why do vegetarians murder vegetables and plants...you know they've proven that they have feelings..

tsk tsk...you are veggie MURDERERS...

[Mr. P]

Well with more and more county animal shelters cutting back do to budget issues, I see a great export opportunity.

[Noir]

why do vegetarians murder vegetables and plants...you know they've proven that they have feelings..

tsk tsk...you are veggie MURDERERS...

There is a difference between having senses, i.e the sense of light, and being a living creature and you know it.

What need have you for eating meat?

[stephanie]

Well with more and more county animal shelters cutting back do to budget issues, I see a great export opportunity.

you heartless ********

just kidding as I know you were.............I think..

[stephanie]

There is a difference between having senses, i.e the sense of light, and being a living creature and you know it.

What need have you for eating meat?

I like the taste..what need for you to lecture people about eating meat?
I don't care when you fill up on veggies and stink the place with your stinky farts..I'd just get up and move away from you..not sit there and lecture you on your farts