Man Bites Dog
Actually, that was already banned in China, at least for the Olympics. Now Chinese animal rights activists are protesting against the eating of cats. CBN:
Earlier this year, Beijing restaurants were forbidden from serving dog on the menu, in anticipation of the flocks of overseas Olympic visitors. Now, many in Beijing’s Guangdong Province are protesting the consumption of another beloved house pet: cats.
Forty protestors gathered together, objecting to the cruel treatment of cats. Wang Hongyao, a representative from the group, expressed some of the their concerns in a letter to the local government. According to Wang, “the cats are being skinned and then cooked alive. We must make them correct this uncivilized behavior.”
While these are harsh words, various Chinese media outlets, including the Southern Metropolis Daily and Chengdu Business Daily, recently published some graphic images of cats being skinned in restaurant kitchens, and reported that thousands of cats were being transported to Guangdong Province for food. According to some reports, people eat 10,000 cats a day in that province alone.
No Chinese restaurant jokes, please. I want to make it clear that while it doesn’t bother me if they play Barry Manilow all night for al-Qaeda suspects, I draw the line at torturing cats. I’m a little suspicious of that part of the report, though. You ever try to do anything to a cat it doesn’t want you to do, like trim its claws or make it take its medicine? Theoretically there’s more than one way to skin a cat, and all of them probably go a lot easier if you club the thing first. I’d hope they aren’t cruel to any of their livestock, but when they have more than a billion people to feed, I’m not going to make it my business to tell them what they can and can’t eat.
In cat abuse news closer to home, here’s someone in trouble for piercing cats and dogs, and marketing “Goth” pets online. Fox News.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 10:26 pm on Thursday, December 18, 2008
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December 19th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
At least they aren’t eating people. Because that would be really gross.