Cats and Dogs on the Menu!

[Jessica]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081219/...na_cat_protest

This is outrageous!

Eating cats and dogs! Yuck and very cruel

[Rusty]

Incredible. I've heard for years that animals I would never dream of eating are eaten elsewhere. Perhaps it's more common that I thought, though, because there's a store not too far from where I live that sells all kinds of exotic foods and meats. The products come from all over.
I've never visited the store, but I've heard about a few of the items for sell. Incredible. (I don't remember hearing anything about cat and dog meat, thank goodness).

[Tomisimo]

I've eaten monkey and iguana, which wouldn't be thought of as very common, at least in the US.

[Jessica]

The only meat I've eaten was beef, chicken, pork, deer (only once), duck, goose, frog, turtle. I might have eaten some other kind and not listed it here, but as far as I know, eating CATS and DOGS is defintely out of hand.
oh, and fish too!
Note: the turtle I've eaten was eaten in China, the soft shelled turtle. I had 2 soft shelled turtles as pets, but one killed the other while we were on vacation (long time ago) so we have only one. It is not very big.

[Marsopa]

I agree, but the only reason we feel that way about cats and dogs is because we have an emotional relationship with them. Objectively though, there is really no difference between eating a cow and a dog, other than the emotional component. They are both sentient creatures. If we were super attached to an individual cow or deer or goat, we would probably feel the same way about them.

[CrOtALiTo]

Yes, on my country in the restaurant of China Food were closed, because the people of many place denounced that the restaurants of China Food the meat was of cats and dogs, and it could to be dangerous for the a few hygiene of the food, then I don't agree with the dead of the animals less with the dogs dead, but you know the Chinese people eats everything until cockroach, and I don't know above their culture but, I believe what that is nasty.

[Tomisimo]

I think Marsopa hit the nail on the head. There's not much difference between a dog, cat, cow, horse, etc., except our perception and emotions. The same goes for eating different parts of animals. In the United States, people normally only eat an animal's meat and nothing else. In Mexico, they eat the stomach, intestines, eyes, brain, feet, etc., which to me is strange and to them is perfectly normal.

[CrOtALiTo]

Yes, David, you are right, Mexican People eats each of the body of an animal, Do you want eat Chistorra?, the Chistorra is very delicious.

[Jessica]

And that's why there are vegetarians.

[Elaina]

Originally Posted by Tomisimo

I think Marsopa hit the nail on the head. There's not much difference between a dog, cat, cow, horse, etc., except our perception and emotions. The same goes for eating different parts of animals. In the United States, people normally only eat an animal's meat and nothing else. In Mexico, they eat the stomach, intestines, eyes, brain, feet, etc., which to me is strange and to them is perfectly normal.

I know for a fact that in some areas of the South they eat from "snoot to toot".

I also agree with Marsopa. If my pet was a chicken, I wouldn't want to eat it. BUT!!! I draw the line in eating cats or dogs or bugs or creepy, crawly thingys....