Chinese Cat Lovers Halt Truck Hauling Cats to Restaurants
Veteran Shanghai cat rescuer Duo Zirong started off her mission of deliverance on Friday when she called police to stop a truck stuffed with some 800 live cats, the China Daily said. The standoff happened at a parking lot in a southern suburb of Shanghai. It continued for hours while cat lovers spread word of the incident online, eventually raising $1,320 in donations to buy the whole load. They now hope to place them in homes after posting their pictures and profiles on the Internet. “They were so frightened,” it quoted one of the rescuers, Huo Puyang, as saying. “Some bit people when they tried to let them out of the boxes. Some still hide in dark corners and will not come out for food,” Huo said. Cat meat is considered a delicacy in southern China and cats are sold live to markets where they are slaughtered fresh for customers. – FoxNews
Pics from a cat cafe…
That is an interesting food choice. But I find it no more strange really that us eating other forms of meat. Just because most (maybe all?) cows, chickens, and lamb don’t purr, look very cute, and are non-threatening makes it easier for us to eat doesn’t really make it more ethical for us to eat…say…vs. a cat (or dog). Or whatever society accepts as an acceptable, cute pet.
So…what I’m saying is that I am trying to figure out why you would post that in your “stupidity” section. Enlighten me, please?
I find most of the stuff I post to involve some form of stupidity, thats why its here. I realize that people in different parts of the world have different food choices. But I think eating cats is stupid. My opinion. If you disagree then try one and let me know how it tastes.
BTW don’t mistake me for a cat person. I wouldn’t have one in the house. But I wouldn’t eat one either.
I’ll bet those cats are tasty
My cats are part of my family.
This qualifies as sickening to me, and I’m grateful to those who were able to stop it.
Nadia, in one way, I agree with you. In another, I want to explain what year it is.
On the whole though, you are correct.
Although we in the West eat meat, their is a difference in culture. The Eastern Asians as in Japan and China seem to kill anything without concern , things like whales and dolphins, where we in the west eat cows and stuff we do feel guilt and remorse and try and legislate so that the animal’s do not suffer. Cats for thousands of years have been regarded as pets.
The Chinky restaurants in some parts of Scotland have been selling off sea gulls as chicken.
http://scottishbritishandproud.blogspot.com/
Part of being human means having an innate the understanding that the acceptability of killing other creatures is dependent on the sentience of the animals, more or less. Put a hammer in someone’s hand; almost anyone could kill a mosquito without feeling any moral discomfort over it. Fewer people would feel comfortable hammering a mouse. Fewer still would feel comfortable killing a dog or a cat that way, and those select few who could comfortably kill a dog or a chimp will probably end up in jail for something or other.
This is where the “well, it’s their culture, it’s no different than us killing (X)” argument falls a bit short. The attribute of being discomfited by the sight of say, distressed screaming puppies crammed into crates and sold to restaurants isn’t so much a cultural curiosity particular to our culture as an expression of our own sentience. There’s something pig-like an vile about anyone who is completely unconcerned by suffering animals.
Apart from being very tasty, btw, cows are incredibly stupid. Thought has been bred out of them, more or less, because thought entails awareness, which entails alertness, which causes the burning of calories, which results in less meat on the bone for a given amount of feed. They have been bred to chew and blank out.
I once saw a newborn calf struggling to reach it’s first teat. The mother had an itch on her side which she repeatedly tried to scratch with her back hoof. She kicked her calf in the head over and over and over and over and the calf kept trying for the same teat. I thought one of them would get the idea, but neither of them did, or showed any sign that they were about to do so. Eventually the farmer kicked the cow, which distracted her for a moment from her itch, although not from her chewing.
P.S. Seagulls sold as chicken? Hmm, how about “Chicken of the Sky?
Fine, cultural differences for the truly open-minded aside, the trade in cats is extremely cruel. Sure, we eat cows, but we don’t torture them before hand. I know cats, I know how they behave, and I can’t think of a crueler, nastier way to raise, transport, or slaughter them. So please, open your minds just a tad more and see this for the cruelty it is.
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yeah… what say we stick with less cuddly tasty snacks…
” — BEIJING, July 17 (Reuters) — Chinese officials have denied media reports that truckloads of live rats rounded up near a flooded lake in eastern China were ending up in local markets and on restaurant menus in the south.”
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