Truck accident spares 1,000 cats from China restaurants

I saw a few replies to your question already. If you still do not understand, they were talking about 'culture' there. And the culture of eating cats might have originated thousands of years ago, at the time when human beings needed to eat cats in order to avoid starvation. No one has said the people who pick a cat in the restaurants today are staving, maybe only you.

 

Maybe they could have stopped once they domesticated cats? Are there any non- poverty ridden countries that eat domesticated animals?

 

I doubt that was the reason they started eating cats. It was probably some weird delicacy hundreds of years ago, and it is still a weird delicacy today.

I don't even understand eating cats, I mean I can kind of understand eating dog meat because there's actually lots of meat on the animal, but wtf cats, it's like all bones and skins.

 

or maybe they just don't care if they eat domesticated animals or not, I'm pretty sure they were eating cat meat when the cats were a common domesticated animal thousands of years ago.

 

I heard they taste like catsup

 

Well yeah, that's not good. What is the point of eating a pet if not starvation? Do they eat hamsters and goldfish too? Why not children? People are animals too.

 

I'm curious if there is any actual evidence for this.

But leaving that aside, as I said, even if this is culture-based that's not a justification for the horrid treatment of those animals in terms of how they are stored and transported while alive.

 

I have eaten aleast 12 or had their by-products
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_domesticated_animals

It is all subjective. When I go to restaurants I try to eat the most off the wall **** I would never eat. If I went to a foreign country, I know I would do the same. I love my dog and cat.
#mydogistender

 

Let me add that only if the animal is born and raised in an environment that is respectful to the animal, and if it farmed humanly, then I see no harm in eating said animal. I can see that eating animals of more domesticated Euro-centric animals(see dog and cat) can be squeamish. After looking into the practices that are used for it, maybe tender dog/cat meat should be off the list. (which I had never even considered or researched, until this thread) warning for linkhttp://hiphopwired.com/2011/06/29/15000-dogs-killed-for-dog-meat-festival-in-china/

I do have to retract my statement of #mydogistender (A dark joke btw). But where do we draw the line. What animal is too "human" that we can't enjoy it?

This might belong in this thread

anywho
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well it's not like they are eating their pet cats, it's not even like they are eating anyone's pet cats, they are just eating animals that are commonly domesticated but in this case most likely bred to be eaten.

 

Am I debating with you how they should transport the animals?

I have just pointed out the funny situation that they were talking about how the cat eating culture originated from thousand of years ago while you kept questioning whether the folks who pick a cat in the restaurant today are starved or not.

 

At least it wasn't a truck full of Hobbits.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward#Famine_deaths

1950-1960s wasn't that long ago when they had a mass amount of people dying from starvation in China. Not sure why people think starvation only occured thousands of years ago.

 

Looks like a lot of meat here.


I'm a cat guy myself (I like mine braised with a white wine reduction ) but I can understand how not everyone has the same feelings about cats. From archeological and genetic evidence it looks like that humans didn't domesticate cats as cats domesticated themselves. It doesn't surprise me then that some peoples didn't develop the same warm feelings towards cats and didn't see anything wrong with eating them.

 

Oh give me a break with some of you being offended with the way those cats are raised (let alone that culture's view on what to eat). Do you even know how much of the meat in this country is raised? Horrific would be putting it mildly. That's why some of you shouldn't be so quick to judge them.

 

i hope the people who are up in arms about the cat treatment don't eat foie gras..

 

Or Rabbit, Turtles , Escargo, Nutria, Silkworms, Various rodents

 

Take this crap to the D&D.

Do I ever insult YOU, man?

 

Go back and read the post to which I originally asked the question. Culture was not the excuse, but rather starvation. Its two separate things. If people want to say its a cultural thing now, than why even bring up starvation if its not the relevant factor today?

But, again, choosing to eat cats instead of pigs or whatever isn't even the main issue for me. The original link talks about the manner in which those cats are transported, alive, which I find to be disturbing. I'd find it just as disturbing if they were pigs or other animals of comparable intelligence.

 

Why are you assuming that people who are "offended" by how these animals are treated in China wouldn't be just as offended by the way they're treated here?