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600 Cats Saved From Becoming Chinese Food After Truck Crash
TBI ^ | 1-17-2013 | Agence France Presse

Posted on 01/17/2013 6:45:38 AM PST by blam

Edited on 01/17/2013 1:42:05 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

Around 600 cats stuffed into wooden crates and destined for dinner plates in southern China were rescued by animal protection volunteers after a truck crash, a volunteer said on Thursday.

Volunteers hauled the felines from the lorry on Monday after the accident in the central city of Changsha, said Xu Chenxin of the Changsha Small Animal Protection Association. About another 100 were already dead.


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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cats; china; food; kittyping
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1 posted on 01/17/2013 6:45:49 AM PST by blam
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To: blam

I don’t judge them. When in Rome...


2 posted on 01/17/2013 6:51:17 AM PST by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: blam

It is a little bit arbitrary which animals we are completely comfortable raising for slaughter, and which we would get thrown into prison for killing. Are pigs much less intelligent than cats? And if intelligence is the threshold metric, where is the line drawn?


3 posted on 01/17/2013 6:52:40 AM PST by Flightdeck (My four children have been robbed)
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To: blam

I don’t care if this is their culture. It’s barbaric. Eat fish and chicken instead. HORRIBLE!


4 posted on 01/17/2013 6:53:17 AM PST by gimme1ibertee (When injustice becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.)
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To: blam
Obligatory:


5 posted on 01/17/2013 6:56:22 AM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: blam

I generally order spicy fried squid; I do not order the chicken chow mein.


6 posted on 01/17/2013 6:58:08 AM PST by headsonpikes (Mass murder and cannibalism are the twin sacraments of socialism - "Who-whom?"-Lenin)
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To: blam
That is why I will not eat at any Chinese or Korean or Japanese restaurants..They do the same here,you just don't know it..Dogs and cats are on the menus ever day at these restaurants..I can't even walk into one of these places I get sick to my stomach..
7 posted on 01/17/2013 6:58:48 AM PST by PLD
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To: blam

Meat is meat, as long as they were vegetarian cats.


8 posted on 01/17/2013 7:00:25 AM PST by crusty old prospector
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To: Flightdeck

What’s wrong with eating pussies?


9 posted on 01/17/2013 7:03:42 AM PST by BO Stinkss
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To: blam

*My best Chinese imprssion* “You like feline Kung Pao?”


10 posted on 01/17/2013 7:03:58 AM PST by Obadiah (Obama wants to protect our children. After all, who else is going to pay off his debt?)
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To: PLD

Not allowed in the USA.


11 posted on 01/17/2013 7:10:06 AM PST by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: headsonpikes
I generally order spicy fried squid.... I don't do "sewer shrimp" or cat chow mein
12 posted on 01/17/2013 7:10:15 AM PST by Minutemen ("It's a Religion of Peace")
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To: blam

Go veggie!


13 posted on 01/17/2013 7:13:11 AM PST by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: Flightdeck

1. I don’t think they appear on the menu as “cat”, so customers are getting lied to.
2. I don’t think they were bred for slaughter. They were strays or somebody’s pet that were taken. Impossible to know now which were stolen pets and which were strays, probably.

So, even if there is no distinction based on intelligence or whatever, there is enough “yuck” here to disapprove of.


14 posted on 01/17/2013 7:14:09 AM PST by married21
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To: blam
I'm surprised no one has posted Cat in the Kettle yet.

I don't find the idea of eating cat appealing and I don't want my kung pao chicken to meow at me, but on the other hand I certainly don't want other people telling me not to eat pork.

And my friends with pet rabbits don't like me calling one Hasen and the other one Pfeffer.

15 posted on 01/17/2013 7:15:09 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Choose one: the yellow and black flag of the Tea Party or the white flag of the Republican Party.)
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To: Minutemen

Voila....Another protein transfer averted. Actually the cats were part of an aid package to North Korea. A stray cat or dog or an unwanted pet is not a concept known in Asia. Viva la differance?


16 posted on 01/17/2013 7:17:37 AM PST by allendale
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To: Abathar

I don’t advocate it here...we don’t need to eat cats and I hear some people say they make great pets. But I don’t want muzzies telling me I can’t enjoy baby back ribs so I won’t tell the Chinese they can’t eat cats.


17 posted on 01/17/2013 7:25:03 AM PST by pgkdan ( "Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not." ~Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Another kitty ping...


18 posted on 01/17/2013 7:26:51 AM PST by Twotone (Marte Et Clypeo)
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To: blam

My son is from Changsha.


19 posted on 01/17/2013 7:29:53 AM PST by mom4melody
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To: Abathar

I will judge them on being inhumane in their treatment. I eat meat, & I understand that different cultures do eat things I wouldn’t, but I expect anyone who raises animals for slaughter to do it in the kindest way possible. They are FEELING creatures. They should have adequate food & water, & sanitary living conditions.


20 posted on 01/17/2013 7:36:48 AM PST by Twotone (Marte Et Clypeo)
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