Posted on 06/13/2017 12:17:50 PM PDT by Red Badger
BEIJING In China, it is legal to eat cats and dogs. Even so, ordinary people reacted with alarm this week as news broke of a Chinese man caught with 500 cats, crowded into tiny cages, which he intended to sell to restaurants.
The man had used sparrows and caged birds to lure both stray cats and domestic ones in the city of Jiujiang in southern Jiangsu province, the 163.com and news.ifeng.com websites reported.
Many of the cats were found in cages in the back of a small truck, some near death and mewing faintly in the heat, while others were recovered in a hut near a highway, cooled only by a ceiling fan. The man usually sold the cats for about 30 yuan ($4.40) each, the report said, citing a local policeman.
The man, identified only as Sun, was arrested Sunday after another man complained to police that someone had been stealing his pets, including a mother nursing five kittens. Police said that if no owners came forward, they would just release the 500 cats, the report said.
The news provoked intense debate on the Netease portal, with more than 40,000 comments, although more appeared to express indignation at the idea that the man had lured away peoples pets than at the idea of eating the animals.
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Imagine 500 cats dropped off in your neighborhood?
There's a full restaurant nearby called New Moon Restaurant that has the absolutely worst Chinese cuisine I have ever tasted.
There's also another nearby that is just a small storefront take out owned by a little Chinese guy who works by himself and occasionally has high school kids answering the phone. His is the best Chinese food I have ever eaten.......
The guy is a hoot! He's only about 5 ft. tall and missing many teeth but when he laughs, he throws his head back and lets it go....it's infectious and you have to laugh too.
He has a wife with dementia at home and 4 daughters who he put thru the University of Michigan. One now lives in Australia, one is in New York City, one is in Chicago working on her PHD and the fourth is still at U of M........
Young dog. Old cat.
Now you know why wonton soup has that particular color and flavor...
Do you think people don’t have enough bandwidth to look at two completely different issues and weigh them on their own merits and take a stand, or are people sufficiently shallow (in your opinion) that they are only capable of taking one stand on one issue, ever, to the exclusion of all others?
Because if I follow your logic, if someone takes even a minute out of their time to opine on the high gas taxes in their state without in the same sentence taking the time to take issue with muslim beheadings, somehow they are short shrifting the issue of Islamic violence?
Just curious, nothing personal. It seemed like a strange non-sequitur on your part.
Funny...that was my exact thought about a second after I clicked the post button!
I guess this is what passes for journalism at the WaPoo these days.
This is just plain wong!
it seems silly that eating dogs and cats is illegal in this country. But that’s what government is good for, dictating the private choices people make in a way that gets politicians re-elected.
I mean, I understand why someone who had a cat they loved would never eat that cat. But it seems rather pretentious for a person to say “well, I love my cat, so you can’t eat a cat”.
Tastes like chicken!
Gives a WHOLE NEW MEANING to Meow Mix.
That ain’t chicken....
The Tabby & Tabouli, as long as they get all the claws out, is not all that bad.
But the General Tso’s Tabby Cat it to die for.
All the kids love the Extra Crispy Calico.
I wouldn’t mind it too much. We have a lot of wood rats and squirrels that need thinnin’..................
I know what I would do to this piece of excrement who was going to make money selling kitties to restaurants, destined for a cruel death. I would beat him to a pulp with a baseball bat studded with nails, then shut him in a locked cage and toss it into a remote ravine. That is exactly what he deserves. Just thinking about this news article makes my blood boil.
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