HexHammer wrote:Blaggard wrote:Yes really we don't eat cats and dogs because we have an attachment to them that doesn't usually exist with pigs and cattle. That's true, it's not nonsense, it actually is why we don't.
You don't really know what you are talking about.
In Chinay they eat both cats and dogs.
You must look in past history that the cat served as a very purposeful pet as it would eat mice and rats, which is highly damageing pests, why we have high regards for it, we usually don't kill those who serve us well, and certainly not friends of the household.
Yes you really have not made a good argument there, no offence but animals we form attachments with we do not eat, it doesn't matter if a cat is a ratter or a dog is a hunting hound, being close to us, us being social animals tends to make us unable to eat them. Now in some countries they will eat them, but they don't see them as pets necessarily and they often have the option of starving or eating, or at least have had. Europe has always been well stocked with food, it's why it grew to the imperialism it later did on the world.
It's why however we don't eat them, and I am sorry but it is true. All food animals serve us just as well, the argument that we only eat sheep because they do not serve us is redundant.
Pragmatism over human emotion, that is naïve.
And for gods sake stop starting every post you make with you are talking crap or wot not, it's getting old. Especially when you are the one talking crap. Start a post with a rational argument and finish it with one, or no one will care.
China
Fur being removed from cats after slaughter. These cats were just submerged in boiling water for a few seconds after being killed. This loosens the fur, making it easier to remove. Image taken at an East Asian market.
In Guangdong and Guangxi provinces in south-eastern China, some - especially older - people consider cat flesh a good warming food during winter months. However, in northern China eating cat is considered unacceptable. It is estimated that around 4 million cats are eaten in China each year, and that the number is rising.[3] However, overseas visitors are unlikely to come across downtown restaurants serving cat, which is only common out of town and in the city outskirts.[3]
The cat's stomach and intestines may be eaten, as well as meat from the thighs, which are turned into meatballs served with soup, with the head and the rest of the animal then thrown away. In Guangdong, cat meat is a main ingredient in the traditional dish "dragon, tiger, phoenix" (snake, cat, chicken), which is said to fortify the body.[3]
Organized cat-collectors supply the southern restaurants with animals that often originate in Anhui and Jiangsu provinces.[3][4] On 26 January 2010 China launched its first draft proposal to protect the country's animals from maltreatment including a measure to jail people, for periods up to 15 days, for eating cat or dog meat.[5][6]
With the increase of cats as pets in China, opposition towards the traditional use of cats for food has grown. In June 2006, approximately 40 activists stormed the Fangji Cat Meatball Restaurant in Shenzhen, forcing it to shut down.[7] Expanded to more than 40 member societies, the Chinese Animal Protection Network in January 2006 began organizing well-publicized protests against dog and cat consumption, starting in Guangzhou, following up in more than ten other cities "with very optimal response from public."[8]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_meat
