PSA: When dining in Guangdong, China, skip the soup course (unless you're a cat-hater)!

[KamaAina]

Cat. The other white meat. :puke: :puke: :puke:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081218/ap_on_re_as/as_china_cat_protest

GUANGZHOU, China – While animal lovers in Beijing protested the killing of cats for food on Thursday, a butcher in Guangdong province — where felines are the main ingredient in a famous soup — just shrugged her shoulders and wielded her cleaver. "Cats have a strong flavor. Dogs taste much better, but if you really want cat meat, I can have it delivered by tomorrow," said the butcher, who gave only her surname, Huang....

Zhu Huilian, a nutrition and food safety professor at Sun Yat-Sen University in Guangdong's capital, Guangzhou, said people usually eat cat in restaurants, not at home.

"There's a famous soup called 'Dragon, Tiger and Phoenix,'" Zhu said. "It involves cooking snake, cat and chicken together. In winter more people eat cats as they believe it's extra nutritious."...

"The cat meat we sell comes from legitimate sources," said Huang, who gave only her surname because her boss doesn't allow her to speak to reporters. "It's from cat farms. The animals are raised the same way cows are."

Not exactly confidence-inspiring. :cry:

Who knew ALF lived in China? :shrug:

"Dragon, Tiger and Phoenix"? This raises some red flags. Chinese restaurants in the civilized world often serve "The Dragon and Phoenix". a) Are we sure there isn't a "Crouching Tiger" hidden in there? and b) Are they substituting something for the "Dragon", or is it really snake? :scared:

[meow2u3]

1. I'll pass on the cat chow mein

Disgusting! :puke:

Cats are for cuddling--not for dinner!

[Deja Q]

2. Well, that redefines "Meow Mix"

[Tektonik]

3. Boohoo cat meat, what about cows, pigs, etc?

[Deja Q]

4. Cows and pigs fart methane into the atmosphere and cause global warming.

For every cloud there is a silver lining; what if the number of cowpie making machines was multiplied by a factor of 100 to feed everyone*.

Or in this case, a silver spoon containing a tail...



* Give me synthetic meat grown from a test tube instead if it's proven to be non-detrimental to the organism ingesting it.

[madeline_con]

5. Cats don't fart? n/t

[Deja Q]

6. They do, but the quantity is infinitesimal by comparison

:D

[meow2u3]

7. Cat farts are silent but deadly--and highly concentrated!

If you never had a cat, you don't know the potency of their farts, especially when they're on your lap with their asses in your face. Peeee yoooU!

[LisaL]

8. That's it. If my cat poops or pees outside the litterbox again,

I am sending him off to China.
:evilgrin: