Glad I don't frequent the Chinese diners around here.
"The Small Animal Protection Association says one Guangzhou-based business captures up to 10,000 cats per day from throughout China. The cat snatchers use large fishing nets and are paid $1.50 per cat"
I'm sorry, readers, but this is HORRIFYING!!!
There should be a LAW: If YOU are going to EAT IT, YOU have to KILL IT YOURSELF!! I'll bet a lot of you would stop eating flesh then, myself included!
Related: The Euthanization of Animals
Gee, that's some choice: KILL 'em or EAT 'em!!! Must this world be FILLED with SO MUCH DEATH when we have SO MANY RESOURCES on this planet?
"Cat cuisine embroils China shops in protests; Marchers raid, denounce markets" by Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times | January 2, 2009
Several cats were rescued last year by the China Small Animal Protection Association from a Tianjin market that trades cats for meat and fur in Beijing. (ap/eyepress file/2007)
GUANGZHOU, China - The gray tabby cat with hazel eyes and a white nose scrunched at the bottom of a stack of metal cages filled with rabbits, quail, pigeons, and ducks, across the aisle from the buckets of turtles and scorpions in a narrow shop with as many live animals as a petting zoo.
If it was male or female, young or old, nobody seemed to know or care. All that mattered was its weight, 6.5 pounds. After a few calculations, the shopkeeper offered to sell the cat for $1.32 per pound, about $9.
"We'll cut it up right here in back for you," the shopkeeper suggested, gesturing toward a blood-stained room.
The scene is routine at butcher shops in the capital of Guangdong Province, formerly known as Canton. Although Cantonese cooking is known abroad for dim sum and won ton soup, it is also recognized as the most exotic of the Chinese cuisines, serving up a veritable Noah's Ark of species on the dinner plate. As a popular saying goes, the Cantonese will eat anything that walks, crawls, hops, or flies.
But now fellow Chinese are drawing the line. Eating cat, they say - that is just too disgusting.
"Cats are your friends, not food," read the banners carried at a demonstration last week at Guangzhou train station, where protesters were trying to intercept a shipment of cats.
Not that I don't want the cats saved -- I do -- but once again, the agenda-pushing is SELECTIVELY DECIDING which protests to print!!
I guess it is just a coincidence that the story makes the (hungry) Chinese look like barbarians, right (unlike Israelis who only murder Palestinians with missiles from on high)?
And as far as diets go, I'm not for FORCING AmeriKan menus upon other cultures and nations. The next thing you know, we will be wanting the Hindus start eating hamburgers!
Dog is eaten in many parts of China, but the consumption of cat meat generally occurs only in Guangdong. It is rare to see a stray cat wandering the streets. The Small Animal Protection Association says one Guangzhou-based business captures up to 10,000 cats per day from throughout China. The cat snatchers use large fishing nets and are paid $1.50 per cat.
"They've eaten all their cats so they have to take ours from Beijing. People don't want to let their cats go out on the street," said Zhao Ming, 55, a physician who was among about 40 people demonstrating in Beijing. Cat meat is not illegal and thrives in a seemingly boundless gray area of commerce. Police are reluctant to charge the cat catchers with theft because many of the cats involved live outside and are not technically owned by humans, merely fed and nurtured.
In the absence of laws against cat eaters, cat lovers are taking matters into their own hands. When Shanghai activists got a tip in August that a truckload of cats was passing nearby on its way to Guangdong, they staged an ambush. About 11 p.m., they confronted the truck at a market, where the driver had stopped to rest, and tried to buy the cats.
When the driver refused, a standoff dragged on until the next afternoon. While some activists argued with the driver and police, others opened the back of the truck and released about 1,600 cats. Some 300 cats were found dead. Many of the rescue efforts are directed by Lu Di, 80, a woman who had worked for the late Mao Tse-tung, reading to the Chinese leader in his final years when his eyesight was poor.
"You can judge how advanced a civilization is by the way it treats its animals," Lu said.
Or ALL LIFE!!! I mean, we are treating ANIMALS better than we are treating PALESTINIANS, AFGHANIS, and AFRICANS -- to name a few!!!
She founded the Small Animal Protection Association, which she runs out of the Beijing apartment that she shares with 15 cats, more than a dozen dogs, a quail, a pigeon, and a monkey.
She picked up one cat with a fresh red scar running around its body caused by a wire attached to a brick that dealers wrap around cats to keep them from running away. Often, the cats are badly mistreated in their final moments, crammed into crates and clubbed into semi-consciousness before being thrown alive into boiling water.
"This is a crime that humiliates all Chinese people," Lu said. The dispute cuts across the fault lines of Chinese society. Among the increasingly Westernized middle class, there is a growing culture of cat fanciers who like them for cuddling.
Oh, so THAT is what this article is all about: DRIVING and PUSHING the WESTERN and GLOBALIST AGENDA!!
I bet you are not calling in lunch at the Chinese place today, are ya?
