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Animal rights campaigners in Switzerland would appreciate it if the three percent of the country's population that eats domestic cats and dogs would kindly stop eating them, the BBC reports.
Although the sale of cat and dog meat is banned in Switzerland, it's still legal to eat your own domestic animals, something Swiss animal protection group SOS Chats Noirague claims a small segment of the population is secretly doing. (They're looking at you, Lucerne, Appenzell, Jura, and Bern.)
Cat is a traditional Christmas dish in some areas, "often cooked for the festive season in a similar way to rabbitwith white wine and garlic," the BBC reports.Dog meat is mainly used for sausages and to cure rheumatism.
SOS Chats has started a petition to parliament to outlaw the consumption of les poor little chats et chiens, which has now collected more than 16,000 signatures. The organization led a successful charge to ban the sale of cat skins last year, but hunting stray cats remains legal because ministers felt a spay and neuter campaign would be too costly.
http://gawker.com/animal-rights-campaigners-stop-eating-cats-at-christma-1663905219
Samantha
(9,314 posts)Jenoch
(7,720 posts)BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)...acceptance regarding my personal thoughts. Just-couldn't-do-it.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Oh, never mind.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)oh, never mind
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Your posts seem to be missing a clause.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)pussy-footing around.
Quantess
(27,630 posts)and there was also widespread hunger, I could understand. It sounds so backward and uncivilized, to me.
yuiyoshida
(41,872 posts)It was just South Korea... too many stories about this kind of thing. I have had my cat for years, Love him..but I have teased him saying.. if you don't stop doing this and that I will eat you right up..and he looks at me with those big cat eyes and says.. . meow.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)I don't know why various Asians get singled out for cat or dog eating. People everywhere have eaten whatever animals could be persuaded to stick around.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)aikoaiko
(34,186 posts)Recursion
(56,582 posts)This recipe even mentions substituting cat for rabbit
http://fxcuisine.com/Default.asp?language=2&Display=139&resolution=high
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)KinMd
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olddots
(10,237 posts)To Fluffy In A Bun so nobody will be offended anymore .