Felix and Garfield Are Way Better Than Chicken

Chicken, turkey, goose, pork (pig), lam (sheep) veal (cow) or hair (rabbit), most people would agree, small animals are tasty. And you got to feel sorry for people who's religion bans pork/ham/beacon. But there are some animals we don't eat. Are we missing out?

 

I'd like to taste some dogs and cats. I mean, think of it, there are so many varieties. Perhaps some taste better than others. Perhaps some dogs go better with port, others with fine wine. Maybe some cat's would go well with poutine. Who knows?

 

Well, the Chinese do. And you got to wonder, perhaps the country that invented spices is on to something.

 

The following article also illustrates the mobilising power of the Internet, even in communist China. In a country where hundreds of million of people live on less that a dollar a day, it is also quite amazing that some are now rich enough to protest againts food!

 

SHANGHAI, China (AP) - Chinese cat lovers mobilized online to save a truck load of cats from the cooking pot, a newspaper reported Tuesday.

Veteran Shanghai cat rescuer Duo Zirong started off her mission of deliverance on Friday when she called police to stop a truck stuffed with some 800 live cats, the China Daily said. The standoff happened at a parking lot in a southern suburb of Shanghai. It continued for hours while cat lovers spread word of the incident online, eventually raising the equivalent of US$1,320 in donations to buy the whole load.

They now hope to place them in homes after posting their pictures and profiles on the Internet.

"They were so frightened," it quoted one of the rescuers, Huo Puyang, as saying.

"Some bit people when they tried to let them out of the boxes. Some still hide in dark corners and will not come out for food," Huo said.

Cat meat is considered a delicacy in southern China and cats are sold live to markets where they are slaughtered fresh for customers.