Fur - how can anybody be comfortable with this?

[eman]

Some years ago I saw a TV programme about cats being served up in restaurants in China. The recipe called for the flesh to be of a certain consistency and texture which could only be achieved by plunging the live cat into boiling water, just for a few seconds, so that the fur came away with finger pressure.

The still alive cat was then taken into the kitchen for cooking.

I haven't got an issue with PETA - I don't know enough about them.

My sole purpose in posting was to draw attention to the appalling cruelty inflicted upon animals in China. That's the central issue - not PETA.

[stuveltje]

Originally Posted by eman

Some years ago I saw a TV programme about cats being served up in restaurants in China. The recipe called for the flesh to be of a certain consistency and texture which could only be achieved by plunging the live cat into boiling water, just for a few seconds, so that the fur came away with finger pressure.

The still alive cat was then taken into the kitchen for cooking.

I haven't got an issue with PETA - I don't know enough about them.

My sole purpose in posting was to draw attention to the appalling cruelty inflicted upon animals in China. That's the central issue - not PETA.

lobsters are cooked alive too and how you call those little things ...schrimps? a lobster does make a sound when it get boiled alive, a kind of high sound thing, ofcourse i dont agree with what they doing, but lobster or cat, both alive cooking but both food for people........i dont know for real what to think about this.

[ponygirl]

Originally Posted by stuveltje

lobsters are cooked alive too and how you call those little things ...schrimps? a lobster does make a sound when it get boiled alive, a kind of high sound thing, ofcourse i dont agree with what they doing, but lobster or cat, both alive cooking but both food for people........i dont know for real what to think about this.

cats are cute, lobsters aren't.

To me, clubbing baby seals is abhorrent, eating lobster is not. It's really hard to draw a line - I guess it would depend on your circumstances. If my children were starving to death, would I cook a cat? Probably.

I don't like any type of animal abuse, the least we can do is treat them humanely.

Ponygirl

[stuveltje]

Originally Posted by ponygirl

cats are cute, lobsters aren't.

To me, clubbing baby seals is abhorrent, eating lobster is not. It's really hard to draw a line - I guess it would depend on your circumstances. If my children were starving to death, would I cook a cat? Probably.

I don't like any type of animal abuse, the least we can do is treat them humanely.

Ponygirl

i agree with you, only we talk here about different countries, we have enough food, china probably not, but an animal is an animal, lobster or cat, cow or pig, eskimos eat seals, they also kill seals for their skin, like we in holland kill cows and pigs, and rabbits and whatever we kill to eat and to make clothes off, for us cat is an pet, for china its food, again i dont know what to think about this

[Lemmy]

I have no more of a moral problem with people eating cats, dogs or baby seals than I have with them eating cows and pigs, but no-one has ever gone hungry because he couldn't kill an animal in a horribly painful way.

Being at the top of the food chain gives us the power to do whatever we want to those creatures below us. They're all living beings with feelings, both emotional and physical. How we treat them is a measure of how evolved we are as humans.

[binxgook]

Originally Posted by Lemmy

I have no more of a moral problem with people eating cats, dogs or baby seals than I have with them eating cows and pigs, but no-one has ever gone hungry because he couldn't kill an animal in a horribly painful way.

Being at the top of the food chain gives us the power to do whatever we want to those creatures below us. They're all living beings with feelings, both emotional and physical. How we treat them is a measure of how evolved we are as humans.

Well said Lemmy