Kucing as makanan eksotik

Syd

300 ekor kucing diselamatkan

AKTIVIS-AKTIVIS haiwan menyelamatkan 300 kucing yang diletakkan dalam sangkar buluh di Shanghai pada Jumaat lalu.


SHANGHAI - Aktivis-aktivis haiwan di Shanghai menyelamatkan 300 ekor kucing daripada seorang penjual yang merancang untuk menjualnya kepada pemilik beberapa buah restoran di selatan China.

Menurut seorang aktivis itu, Lai Xiaoyu, 34, dia dan rakan-rakan bertindak menyelamatkan kucing tersebut selepas mendapat maklumat daripada seorang individu yang menyayangi haiwan berkenaan.

Mereka menemui 22 sangkar buluh yang dipenuhi kucing di pekarangan kargo pada Jumaat lalu sebelum haiwan itu dijadualkan dihantar ke wilayah Guangdong dengan kapal.

Dia berkata, kebanyakan haiwan itu sudah dihantar pulang kepada pemiliknya tetapi tiga daripadanya mati dan sebahagian lagi patah kaki.


Menurut akhbar Shanghai Daily semalam, pemilik restoran sanggup membayar 50 yuan (RM25.89) bagi setiap seekor kucing. - AFP

wjc610

Nak kena bala btl manusia2 karnivor ni..........:@

moimed

mcm shiallll jer, mcm takder makanan lain nak mkn, patut la kena mcm2 virus n penyakit semua nak makan, naper tak makan taik sdri jer, bangang:@

Syd

negara yang 'satu' tu
mmg semua benda dorang bedal

tak lama lagi, orang pun dorang masak buat lauk

nuox84

dekat cni pon ada ma..aritu msa nuox blk kg dkt kedah ada sorang dipercayai bkn warga kita lar die dok pungut 2 guni kuceng dekat market..n msa 1st time tuh ada org nmpak tp xble wat apa2 sbb dia dh angkut kuceng2 tuh wak blk..then, 2nd time ada org nmpak n dorang sempat lepaskan kuceng2 tuh...kebetulan bapak jihah bru jek g buang kuceng yg agak jahat lar kt umah tuh coz dia mkn ank ayam..luckly pas buang tuh dia balik semula ke rumah..bapak jihah ckp naseb baik kuceng tu pndai cr jln pulang klu x musti dh jd lauk  kt manusia2 hampeh tuh...

Syd

hehe
orang vietnam yang suka masak kucing ngan anjeng

moimed

janin pon derang makan sbg makanan exotic...makan spesis sdri, pasnih makan anak sdri plak..

hatemetoday

cilake jek dorang nih...ape jek yg pat kaki dia bedal..cuma meja jek dia lom nak mentekedarah ...

iz_zu

aduhaiiii...

voiletiris

kucing pun nak d bedal?mcm dah tak da benda lain yg boleh d makan

AtA_JanE

masa aku keje kat vietnam tu aku sempat singgah ladang kucing...diorg ni mmg ternak kucing tu as makanan....aku tgk dr jauh jek...tak smp hati...gemuk2 kucing tu...huhu

moimed

siap ternak tuh tak tahan, nak2 kucing nih manja, tgk jer kita ngan sayunyer,,,,nangis aku kalo tgk depan mata nih...

voiletiris

sedih arr.aku terbayangkan kucing2 aku tu,

Syd

Tastes like chicken? No, lamb.

Last week, a group of more than 40 animal lovers gathered at the Guangdong government's office in Beijing, China to protest the killing of cats for food.


A cat being pulled from cage so he can be tortured (usually beaten) to death. In China, prolonged death is often equated with better tasting meat.


A cat being pulled from cage so he can be tortured (usually beaten) to death. In China, prolonged death is often equated with better tasting meat.

The protest was fueled by a recent report in the Southern Metropolis Daily, a Guangdong paper famous for its exposes and aggressive reporting said about 1,000 cats (both strays and stolen family pets) were transported by train to Guangdong each day to be killed for food. The animals come from Nanjing, a major trading hub for cats, the newspaper said, and are brought to market by dealers on motorcycles, crammed into crowded wooden crates.

Some people in Nanjing spend their days "fishing for cats," which often includes stealing other people's pets, the report said. Some blame the rise in pet nabbing on the decline in the economy.

According to an AP article, a butcher in Guangdong province, where felines are the main ingredient in a famous soup, was unfazed. "Cats have a strong flavor. Dogs taste much better," she said, adding that the meat she sells comes from "legitimate sources." "It's from cat farms. The animals are raised the same way cows are." The butcher described cat meat as tasting a bit like lamb.

The protest represents the latest clash between old traditions and new ways of thinking and living, such as keeping pets, made possible by China's growing affluence.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) issued a statement decrying the cruel treatment: "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.

Guangdong is home to the Cantonese people, famous for being the most adventurous eaters in China. There's a popular saying: "The Cantonese will eat anything that flies, except airplanes, and anything with legs, except a chair."

Americans clearly value dogs and cats differently than the Chinese, although this recent protest indicates change. I don't believe anyone reading this column would argue that it's acceptable to steal someone's pet and sell it as food. But, do you think it's acceptable to eat cats and dogs that are raised on farms, in the same way we eat pigs and chickens and cows (the first of which are considered anathema to observant Muslims and Jews, and the latter to Hindus)? If the animal isn't a family "pet," is eating cat and dog meat really that different from eating the meat of any other animal?

Is it the inhumane treatment or the eating of these animals or both that strikes a nerve? Have you ever eaten cat or dog? Would you?

Syd

A woman holding a picture of a trapped cat cries as she takes part in a protest, where animal-loving residents unfurled banners urging a southern Chinese province to stop the “cruel slaughter” of cats for food, in Beijing.

Syd

nuox84

adehhhh...xsanggup nk tgk pic kuceng2 tuh..t'bayang kuceng kt umah

Syd

kucing tu lawa-lawa kan
gomok-gomok lagi

nuox84

nape bnyak kaler oren n puteh..mcm kucen haku!!wawawawa!! (tetiba termeroyan plak)

nuox84

PREPARATION OF KOREAN "LIQUID CAT" (FROM IFAW LITERATURE)



An overcrowded crate of cats and kittens awaiting slaughter. Cats are territorial creatures and find overcrowding highly stressful. They will be able to see other cats being slaughtered and prepared.