Thursday, December 18, 2008

a little ketchup, some french fries...lovely meal

Pet lovers protest cats on the menu in China (AP)

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....
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1 comment:

k-mad said...

"China has no animal protection laws, and throughout the country scores of cats and dogs are bred or rounded up, crammed onto trucks and driven for days under hellish conditions to animal markets, where they are beaten to death, strangled or boiled alive," said a spokesman for the group, Michael V. McGraw.

Typical PETA culturally insensitive menu-Nazi yammering.

Pet ownership was once rare because the Communist Party condemned it as bourgeois...

That's commie-speak for "elitist."