Eating cats in China????
Rebecca J. Kaizerman
I've read several posts recently about the Chinese eating cats and dogs,
and I was just wondering where this information comes from. I am not
saying this doesn't happen, but I just spent a year in China, and although
I did see dog carcasses for sale for meat at local markets, I never saw
cats. Occasionally, when people were teasing me for being such an avid
cat lover, I would jokingly say "well, I guess you don't understand,
people in your culture eat dogs and cats for dinner!" This was always
roundly denied--the most common answer was that while dogmeat is delicious
and has certain medicinal properties, cats are skinny and have no meat on
their bodies.
Tracy Bell
Someone once told me a friend of theirs was in Asia (I don't remember which
country). Anyway she saw a lovely kitten in a shop window and went in to
buy it. The shop owner brought the kitten to her with its head chopped
off! It does happen.
Rebecca J. Kaizerman <rj...@cornell.edu> wrote in article
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WE MUST STOP THIS THIS IS AWFULLLLLL !!!!!!!
:-(((((((
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In article <01bbc6db$d1fa4d40$5e3f...@INDRMIPC3094.ind.dpi.qld.gov.au>,
Yudong Chen
In article <rjk5-30109...@cu-dialup-1421.cit.cornell.edu>, rj...@cornell.edu (Rebecca J. Kaizerman) wrote:
>I've read several posts recently about the Chinese eating cats and dogs,
>and I was just wondering where this information comes from. I am not
>I did see dog carcasses for sale for meat at local markets, I never saw
>cats. Occasionally, when people were teasing me for being such an avid
>cat lover, I would jokingly say "well, I guess you don't understand,
>people in your culture eat dogs and cats for dinner!" This was always
>roundly denied--the most common answer was that while dogmeat is delicious
>and has certain medicinal properties, cats are skinny and have no meat on
>their bodies.
I was born in China and had been living there for 14 years. While I can't say
I'd travel all over China I never ate any cat or dog meat in my life, nor did
I see any dog meat or cat meat for sale at local markets. I do know that many
people in China consider dog meat as delicious and nutritious. As for cats,
apparently only Cantonese cuisine has cats on the menu, none of any other
Chinese cultures has. So I guess Chinese do eat cats and dogs, but it really
depends on which region and which culture you are talking about. As far as I
know, most of the Chinese never see dogs or cats on their tables in their
entire life.
Yudong Chen
Yudong
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mrg...@htp.net wrote:
>
> WE MUST STOP THIS THIS IS AWFULLLLLL !!!!!!!
> :-(((((((
> :-(((((((.....
>
> In article <01bbc6db$d1fa4d40$5e3f...@INDRMIPC3094.ind.dpi.qld.gov.au>,
> "Tracy Bell" <Be...@planet.mh.dpi.qld.gov.au> wrote:
> >Someone once told me a friend of theirs was in Asia (I don't remember which
> >country). Anyway she saw a lovely kitten in a shop window and went in to
> >buy it. The shop owner brought the kitten to her with its head chopped
> >off! It does happen.
This also sounds very, very much like an urban legend. Who is
"someone,"
and who is the friend of theirs? Are they reliable witnesses? Which
country did it take place in -- were you ever told, rather than
forgetting?
And what district of what country?
Please, as has been posted in another thread, there is beginning to be a
very strong scent of racism in this endless threads on the consumption
of
cats and dogs in Asian countries. Believe it or not:
One, there are other countries which consume both cats and dogs, in
addition
to other animals we consider inedible. For that matter, I suspect that
if
we all compared notes, we would find that *we* do not even agree on what
is
edible and what is not.
Two, whatever our initial, emotional reaction to the news that there are
other countries and other peoples which will eat animals we perceive
solely
as pets and potential family (save, of course, for those we abandon and
ignore), we nonetheless do not have the right to condemn them for it.
Cruelty is another issue, and a much more complex one, as is the
consump-
tion of rare, threatened, or endangered species. But simple consumption
is something we just don't have the right to infere with.
Three, it's time we stopped these vague allegations. The consumption of
cats and dogs, under whatever circumstances, where it actually occurs,
is
amply and reliably documented. If you're actually interested, you
should
be able to find reliable evidence. What we DO NOT need is another
refer-
ence to "somewhere in Asia," or "somewhere in China," as if these
regions
were as comparatively small and culturally homogenous as, say, Orange
County, California.
Stacy Scott
4Ts
I saw a documentary where live cat was put into boiling water until the
poor screaming cat had its skin peeled and flesh cooked.... HOW
CRUEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Renee Babcock
Well, since this very topic was recently brought up, I am wondering,
without getting into all the bashing that I saw, what *can* we do to put
an end to this practice?? To do nothing, except voice our outrage in
this forum, is to allow and implicitly condone this abhorrent practice.
How many of us could sleep at night knowing this is happening to even
*one* cat? But at the same time, I don't want to get into the
viciousness that seemed to abound the last time this topic came up. What
I'm looking for is *constructive*, viable methods for helping to stop
this. I heard that International Fund for Animal Welfare was involved.
Can anyone confirm this? What can I as an individual do? It makes me
ill to think of this, the moreso when I go home and play with my cats,
and realize that it could be them.
Renee