moggies saved in china from cooking pot

Luckily someone came along and saved these cats from a restaurant. But, what or who is going to look after them.

 

In certain parts of the world they 'farm'and eat animals that we would consider pets, likes cats and dogs.

But where is the moral difference between eating a cat or a dog, and eating a cow or a sheep?

I don't say that in a critical way. I don't think I'd want to eat cat or dog, but I don't understand why we think the way we do.

 

When I used to eat land animals, I was on a day out "Tourist Day" in Ibiza, where all the ex pats & Spanish bar owners take the day off at the end of the season & go out for a big meal & a party in the hills.

Rabbit was on the menu so I ordered that. Got loads of grief from folk saying how could I eat one, it reminded them of their pets when they were kids & so on.

When it arrived, the same folk were pinching bits of it to see what it tasted like

A lot of cultures happily eat insects, not too sure about that, but thats just my up bringing. Recently bought a bag of tiny dried Crayfish from a welsh supermarket, they were no bigger than Woodlouses & looked the same. Flavour was incroyablé though

 

I spent 3 weeks in China in 2010 on a voluntary placement. Our group went out to an all you can eat restaurant serving food from "around the World".

One of our group brought back a plate with 2 insect things on it, picked one up and offered the other on the plate to me ... deciding this was my moment to prove myself and man up, I took it, put it in my mouth and munched. Once I'd swallowed, he returned the plate to the table ....


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Yup, he'd fooled me! But, I could still hold my head up because it meant I was less squeamish that a 6' something built like a brick moo poo house kidder

 

Oh and if anyone can positively ID what it was I ate ... no need to educate me

 

I have no real problem with amimals being eaten as food, it been going on for years.
I do however have a real big problem regarding how animals are treated before they are killed and how they are killed.

Some parts of the world do seem to revel in cruelty before agonising death, that I cant take.

We do similar here on a "slightly" lesser scale regarding live exports to Europe, where sheep are transported to Europe live, so that they can be ritually slaughtered in some backyard.
British farmers do not seem to have much conscience otherwise this trade would not exist.

 

I may be wrong (and, please correct me if I am) but I don't think this is to do with the farmers. It is my understanding that it is to do with some EU directive.

From the farmers I have known (albeit only a handful), they care very much about their animals: it's their livelihood.

 

The farmers dont have to sell to the exporters.
A farmer was on the TV the other day and stated that it was legal and until the law is changed there is nothing anyone can do to stop it.
They cannot hide behind the EU.

Farming is a buisness, and once they sell their animals they dont really care what happens to them in my opinion.