Please tell me that's not true! I know in china you eat dog and cat, you do consider use humaine methods on them???
Please tell me that's not true! I know in china you eat dog and cat, you do consider use humaine methods on them???
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Dog meat is not only just eaten in China, there are many other counties where it is eaten. It was even eaten by native Indians. As shown in this link.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_meat
As for cats being boiled no doult a few law-breakers would do this.,
They eat a lot of strange foods in China. Pig brains, cow fetuses, pig's blood, etc. This is nothing new. I'd like to point out that we boil lobster alive here. Where's your outrage for the poor lobsters?
Boiling them kills them very fast. Frogs are boiled alive in Europe too. It just seems worse because people care less about frogs than cats.
Anyways, it's not very common and there are other ways of cooking a cat too, but in a lot restaurants you can see the animals in cages before you order them. Most parts of china don't even eat cats. It's mostly just in the south of china.
You have to remember that it's a different culture and in this different culture they don't think of cats as pets, they think of them as pests. The stray cats in the north are sent to the south to control the cat population. In that sense it's almost better that the cats die for food then simply dying for nothing.
Cantonese ate cats but this is no longer a common protein source in modern day cantonese people. In fact I think most modern day chinese will be repulsed by the thought of eating cats. Dog meat is readily available in many places in China, but your cute household canine is safe as they only eat certain species of dogs. I have not heard of boiling cats alive in my years in China.
In any case, humane meat eating is an oxymoron.
In the southern part of China they do eat cats as a special dish, but they do not boil them alive. You might still remember SARS. It started actually in the south of China. This disease is contracted from a wild cat that is common in this part of China.
Boiling Cats Alive
When was the last time you checked facts from fiction? True, cats are eaten, but boiling them alive? Come on. You have to at least decapitate them first. Worry about the rest of the world first, with the weird folks out there torturing and abusing animals for their own pleasure.
Yes,it is,but it's very rarely seen,and the thing you describe is not very exact,the cats they boiled is at the death's door,before boilling,the cats had be made to half-death.
This bloody thing is only porpular in Guangdong Province of China,the Guangdong province people is famous for eating snake and mouse etc in China mainland,it's local cooking culture .The impression of Chinese on Guangdong province is:"Gongdong province people dare to eat anything."
I belive that there are many Chinese people in yahoo answer,maybe they say "no" in order to defense Chinese reputation or they dont know well multiple Chinese cooking culture.But I think we should face the truth,i'm also chinese.
China is a very large county,there are many kinds of cooking culture,every cooking culture is very different.In fact,most chinese dont like eating cats and feel it's disgusting.But,Part of Guangdong people belive superstitiously that cat-flesh can cure disease and improve health.
It's a fresh thing that killing cats by boiling them alive in Guangdong provice.Formerly,I never heared this thing.It is said cat-flesh is good flavor after do it.
After appearing this thing, lots of Chinese and media criticized the behavior,they said it's too bloody and disgusting.Even the chinese cats-protectors conflicted with cats-transporter in Jiaxing city of Jiangsu province.A truck which filled up cats to prepare transport to Guangdong province for boilling was head off by cats-protectors.Some chinese cats-protectors cried on the scence.
So dont worry it is not mainstream Chinese cook culture.The chinese media and most chinese oppose killing cats by boilling them alive.
I heard in America they kill cows and other animals by hanging them upside down and cutting their throats...do you consider that humane?? I would suggest 1.Start caring about what is happening to people around the world verses animals. and 2. stop paying attention to rumors made up by ignorant people..
Most Chinese don't even eat cats or dogs.I suggest you go to a slaughter house in the US. All those cows, pigs, chickens don't die an easy death.