cat meat anyone?

[sylvestter]

from sky news: http://sn.im/dg7eh


In China, the trade in live cat meat is thriving. By some estimates, 10 000 cats are sold and eaten every day in one city alone - mainly served up as kebabs or in Chinese-style hotpot.

yikes! :shock:

btw, i LOVED the comment made by one of the readers on the sky website:


To be honest I find this story completely pointless. The only people that I think can complain about this, would be vegetarians because they don't eat meat full stop. But for people to condone this and then straight after, go and an eat a burger (for example) is completely hipocritical. In my eyes there's no different between one animal over another. Refering to the conditions the animals are kept, yes it is not nice, but it does happen and it happens close to home as well, not just the far east. As I say this is a complete non-story!

[Falcon]

hipocriticalyes, that reader sure has animals on his mind! :lol:

[travelbug]

LMAO ahahhhahahehheeheh

Saw the skinned carcass of a cat being sold in a Chinese market :( ... really sad and kinda freaky!

[shaddeck]

lookin at de skinned carcass of a cat next to ah rabbit minus dey heads, it´s hard tuh tell de difference. I love rabbit meat but have reservations about domestic cats, though ah must have eaten it at some time having spent 9 months in china. Ah also had reservations bout frogs legs till ah tried them and found dem delicious. de comment from de sky website reader bears some truth

[sapodila]

Actually I have Chinese friends who raise cats for food........ in China. Don't bother me a bit, they could eat all the cats they wish too cause I have a deadly allergic reaction to cats.

[Huma]

Yep, this thread isn't going to have any double entendres at all...

[shield_2006]

Yep, this thread isn't going to have any double entendres at all...

I pondered the same-but-when you consider the fact that some eat it raw and others cooked-it would be useless raising the issue of taste comparison. ;) ;)

[Didi]

OMG. I think i would turn vegetarian before I touch that.

[mammadon]

If it swims in the sea, walks on land, or flies in the air, the Chinese and dem would eat it. :lol:

but i don't see why it's "more wrong" to eat a cat than a sheep, pig or cow. All ah dem is animals, but I guess cat has personality and is cute, eh? We humans have real screwed up logic sometimes. :D

[Amelia]

If it swims in the sea, walks on land, or flies in the air, the Chinese and dem would eat it. :lol:

but i don't see why it's "more wrong" to eat a cat than a sheep, pig or cow. All ah dem is animals, but I guess cat has personality and is cute, eh? We humans have real screwed up logic sometimes. :D

If that were the basis for choosing one's meat then bunnies wont be on the list. But sadly there are freaks in the world.

[brag]

As we watch our TVs and see some of the delicacies and preferences of foods around the world, we learn to accept what people eat as culture.

The sheep, cow, goat, chicken, etc., can be pets for many people. So eating the cow and pig can be just as offensive, barbaric and even abhorrent to many people, the same as skinning live dogs and cats for food.

And what about other delicacies, such as worms of all kinds, cockroaches, the raw and cooked intestines of large fishes, canned sardines, sea foods, snalls, fetal duck and chicken eggs, scavenging animals as manicou, rats, and all sea creatures, etc? And what about eating organ meats like kidneys and livers that can be seen as launderies and cemeteries in animal bodies?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXucin9iIaE

[saltwater]

Brag what is wrong with canned sadines. Why is that a delicacy. Canned sardines is suppose to be healthy and is a very normal food item.

[Falcon]

Brag, a chicken liver or a sheep's kidney: that any more of a laundry than a dasheen plant in the drain?

[travelbug]

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/TRAVEL/07/0 ... index.html (http://edition.cnn.com/2007/TRAVEL/07/01/daily.snapshot/index.html)

This is why I don't eat lamb anymore...they're too cute!!!

How on earth can a kitten, cute and fluffy as it is, be seen as edible? I guess the saying, "looking good enough to eat" comes to mind :(

[mammadon]

If it swims in the sea, walks on land, or flies in the air, the Chinese and dem would eat it. :lol:

but i don't see why it's "more wrong" to eat a cat than a sheep, pig or cow. All ah dem is animals, but I guess cat has personality and is cute, eh? We humans have real screwed up logic sometimes. :D

If that were the basis for choosing one's meat then bunnies wont be on the list. But sadly there are freaks in the world.

i guess so.

still seems a bit hypocritical to think "dey eat cats!?! ewwww!!!" and think nothing for the cow who died for somebody's steak, or the chicken who died for somebody's KFC.

[mammadon]

As we watch our TVs and see some of the delicacies and preferences of foods around the world, we learn to accept what people eat as culture.

The sheep, cow, goat, chicken, etc., can be pets for many people. So eating the cow and pig can be just as offensive, barbaric and even abhorrent to many people, the same as skinning live dogs and cats for food.

And what about other delicacies, such as worms of all kinds, cockroaches, the raw and cooked intestines of large fishes, canned sardines, sea foods, snalls, fetal duck and chicken eggs, scavenging animals as manicou, rats, and all sea creatures, etc? And what about eating organ meats like kidneys and livers that can be seen as launderies and cemeteries in animal bodies?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXucin9iIaE

I agree, it's all relative.

besides, i've eaten liver and kidney and to me tastes nice. If anyone here is in England, try steak and kidney pie, and you'll see it isn't so bad as it sounds.

[brag]

Falcon, that being the case about dasheen, why all the repulsion instead of choice and culture and sometimes repulsion about what people eat, and which may sometimes go into our stomachs as medicine. You ever taste the urine in kidneys? The first time I ate kidneys, I almost threw up, and that was also the last time I ate kidneys.

At least dasheen plants expell the crap before they store the vitamins and minerals as nourishment in a condition fit for consumption, while the liver does not have the time to expell the crap, (yes crap, same as what comes out the rear), before it gets to the table as food, and we feast on dead cells with the slightest regard for the crap we are eating.

[shield_2006]

People eating alligator,monkey, porcupine,armadillo,lappe,tattoo, agouti,manicou and iguana-so why not cat-what they so squeamish about-is just another animal. If you could eat one you could eat all. Remember them fellas who eat one another in the plane crash in the Andes.

[gingergirl63]

Oh my, March 24th will be 3 yrs since i lost my beautiful baby girl,she was so loving and playful,fat and pudgy so we aptly named her Pudge...she was 18 yrs.

[Falcon]

brag, the kidney cannot store urine and liver does not filter faeces.....jeez :roll:

[brag]

Please read again and see if that is what I said or even implied.

[Falcon]

Ok, and yes, that's what you said.

[brag]

Perhaps you understand crap in a literal sense, so I can appreciate how that can be inferred from what I wrote.

[SocaSim]

from sky news: http://sn.im/dg7eh

[quote]In China, the trade in live cat meat is thriving. By some estimates, 10 000 cats are sold and eaten every day in one city alone - mainly served up as kebabs or in Chinese-style hotpot.

yikes! :shock:

btw, i LOVED the comment made by one of the readers on the sky website:


To be honest I find this story completely pointless. The only people that I think can complain about this, would be vegetarians because they don't eat meat full stop. But for people to condone this and then straight after, go and an eat a burger (for example) is completely hipocritical. In my eyes there's no different between one animal over another. Refering to the conditions the animals are kept, yes it is not nice, but it does happen and it happens close to home as well, not just the far east. As I say this is a complete non-story![/quote:2a6ake07]

What do you think is in the dishes serves by street vendors!!!

[Hance]

Trinidadians should be the last people on earth to comment on what is edible and what is not. Try getting "wild meat" to buy during Christmas season.....everything scarce....manicou, agouti, lappe, tattou, turtle, wild hog, cappibarra, deer, iguana etc etc .....the only thing easy to find is alligator tail and snake.

I read in the Express Newspaper that a Cappibara is the biggest rodent in the world and it is farmed in Trinidad, it is one of the more expensive expensive "wild meat" available locally and usually only around Xmas time . It is sold out via pre-orders.

[Pamela]

No cat for me

[lexbarker]

I don't know if some of you old geisers remember that back in the mid sixites there was a restaurant near the San Fernando wharf that was selling dog meat with their roti? It was discovered by the garbage man when a dog head fell out from a bag as he picked it up.

[Falcon]

That story surfaces every 10 years or so..........and they still ent close down "dat restaurant by d wharf"......

[lexbarker]

That story surfaces every 10 years or so..........and they still ent close down "dat restaurant by d wharf"......
So dey really know how to cook dog meat.

[FloridaSun]

Having eaten so many different creatures in my life, I certainly can't fault anyone for eating one I haven't tried yet. I do have two cats, (one 20 years old and the other 17). I consider both of my cats a part of my family. If I had a goat that lived in my house for 20 years, I would consider it a friend also. I would never eat my little friends, but some cat I never saw and has been cooked into a nice meal, sure, I'd try it. Just not in front of my own cats. They might be able to tell somehow... I wouldn't want to terrify them.

One time when I was a very young person, about 9 or 10, I was living on the street. There were times that I had no food and even had to find food from the garbage cans behind peoples houses. A nice hot meal of cat would have been a blessing to me then.

It's a matter of context. If a small child has a little bunny that the child has known for most of it's young life, then sure, it would be mean-hearted and cruel to lop off the creatures head and skin it in front of this small person. To explain to the child where the meat comes from and how it's prepared to make us all full and happy is the point to make with the small child.

Everything is relative to one's own experience in this life.

I have eaten dog. It was pretty darn good. Lean, tender meat with a mild flavor.

[shaddeck]

can someone tell me if dey can tell de difference between dis and ah cat if you had it on ah plate?

[alieninthecaribbean]

What doh kill does fatten

[letric]

While not a vegetarian, have a preference for most sea foods, however, doubt whether it will ever be acceptable to consciously eat cat meat. Having a sensitive stomach my entire innards will consciously revolt, even the thought makes me nauseous. Yet, there is no objection towards anyone who elects to eat cat meat, after all, compare it with eating another human?

[Falcon]

can someone tell me if dey can tell de difference between dis and ah cat if you had it on ah plate?

easily! :mrgreen:

[Amelia]

I'd be too busy [smilie=bad.gif] to notice any difference.

[lexbarker]

can someone tell me if dey can tell de difference between dis and ah cat if you had it on ah plate?

That could be a small poodle.

[letric]

Not having any problems with eating any kind of meat, interested to know, if it is possible to eat another human being?

[kayt]

Not having any problems with eating any kind of meat, interested to know, if it is possible to eat another human being?

History has examples of canabalism in all parts of the world at some time or the other. It is possible to eat another person. It is just amoral to most people and illegal in all countries.

[shaddeck]

it is´nt illegal where I live. de law was in ah quandry ah couple years ago when one man ate parts of another man while he was still alive. dey din know how tuh charge he.

http://www.francesfarmersrevenge.com/st ... meiwes.htm (http://www.francesfarmersrevenge.com/stuff/serialkillers/meiwes.htm)

[kayt]

it is´nt illegal where I live. de law was in ah quandry ah couple years ago when one man ate parts of another man while he was still alive. dey din know how tuh charge he.

http://www.francesfarmersrevenge.com/st ... meiwes.htm (http://www.francesfarmersrevenge.com/stuff/serialkillers/meiwes.htm)


I remember that story. He did have to kill the guy to finish off eating him. Murder is illegal.

[shaddeck]

it is´nt illegal where I live. de law was in ah quandry ah couple years ago when one man ate parts of another man while he was still alive. dey din know how tuh charge he.

http://www.francesfarmersrevenge.com/st ... meiwes.htm (http://www.francesfarmersrevenge.com/stuff/serialkillers/meiwes.htm)


I remember that story. He did have to kill the guy to finish off eating him. Murder is illegal.

de fella died from loss of blood and he also ate and helped preparing meals of hisself. all of dis was captured on video including scenes where he specifically gave permission on how he wanted his death played out. it was´nt murder and dats why de law was at ah loss on how tuh pass judgement.