Lawd, I hope not!!! :)
2007-01-24 02:41:33 · 18 answers · asked by lordydordy42 2 in Food & Drink ➔ Ethnic Cuisine
I think that they might in China.
2007-01-24 02:49:53 · answer #1 · answered by E-Razz 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
In the past they have. Also puppies. You have to understand that both cats and dogs breed easily and overproduce young. At the same time, the human population in China needed to be fed. They cured the over population problem of pets by putting them on the menu.
Ask yourself if you'd let your kids go hungry to keep a stray kitten alive. If the answer is yes, you probably shouldn't be a mother.
2007-01-24 02:51:55 · answer #2 · answered by loryntoo 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No. In China, they have eaten cat and dogs, but they also eat them in Haiti. I've heard that cat is some of the most succulent meat ever eaten. I personally never partake. In any case, if they do it in the states they would have to be very careful, but with the regulations I don't think its the case.
2007-01-27 07:37:56 · answer #3 · answered by Diane T 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have heard stories, news, rumours regarding this. I have seen pictures too, which is sad.
I have seen people consumed dogs, but not cats. But yes, they are eaten by some people in some part of Asian countries
Here is the following article regarding this
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Cat and/or dog eating has been documented, filmed etc in Korea and in China. Documentary evidence shows that in parts of China, cats do form part of the diet and may even be farmed as dual flesh/fur livestock. China has suffered periodic famines for centuries. This has led to them eating a far wider range of meat and vegetables than most Western cultures. Cantonese cuisine uses a particularly wide range of "exotic" ingredients. It is often said that the Chinese will eat anything with four legs except a table and anything with wings except an aeroplane. In practice, the commonly eaten meats are pork, beef, chicken, rabbit and duck.
In Canton, southern China, there exists a dish called "The Dragon and the Tiger''. It is made with snake and cat meat stir-fried together and is an exotic delicacy. "Snake Soup", "Dragon Fights with Tiger Soup" (longhudou) or "Dragon-Tiger-Phoenix Soup" contains cobra, serpentine, old cat, and young chicken. The snake stands for the dragon, cat stands for tiger and chicken stands for phoenix. "'Tiger Fights Dragon'" is described as consisting of a roast snake entwined around a roast cat.
There are persistent rumours that the rise in demand for cat (a delicacy), and the apparent willingness of some Chinese to pay extravagant prices for cat dishes, has led to pet cats in Beijing being stolen to Cantonese-style restaurants. In January 2000, the New York Times reported allegations that the popularity of Cantonese-style restaurants in Beijing has led to cat-thefts to meet the rising demand. Lu Di, a Beijing woman, professor of classical literature and long-time animal welfare campaigner (a rarity in China) apparently stated that between September and the date of the report, up to 500 Beijing families had their pet cats stolen. This estimate was extrapolated from complaints received by her Association for the Protection of Small Animals.
Lu Di apparently described a case in which six cats in one north-western section of Beijing were stolen in one day. The distraught owners found the animals caged at nearby restaurants. The police apparently refused to help them, because there are no specific laws relating to pet-theft. The owners called the Association for the Protection of Small Animals, but when they returned to the restaurants the cages were empty and the owners were distraught. Certainly knowledge of the manner in which cats and other small animals are dispatched would create great distress in an owner whose cat had been stolen for the restaurant trade.
2007-01-24 10:52:21 · answer #4 · answered by Kuchiki Rukia 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
when i was in china I saw some of the poorest people ever once I got out of the city, so if they do it's not something that should be a joke, its to not starve, I mean they scrape money to buy the scrap pieces of fish from the fish markets in the city, and many can not afford that, its sad
2007-01-24 07:45:25 · answer #5 · answered by jjissodamngreat 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Only if Alf (the furry character from the 1990s sit com) is ordering dinner.
2007-01-24 03:46:04 · answer #6 · answered by Santa C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes they do...one of my best guy friends is chinese and they eat cats and exotic foods like that everyday ...but if you love chinese food dont worry becuz they only eat it in real authentic chinese food and not the takeout that you probably get
2007-01-26 00:51:14 · answer #7 · answered by Jinnie 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, folks do that in Jamaica. Thai, Cambodians and Vietnamese eat dog.
2007-01-24 02:59:21 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
thats sick! my mom is Chinese, and she loves animals, she said she known people who did eat cats, but she knows right from wrong (i love her *sniff*) and knows thats sick. She never ate cat and said that it is also taboo there, only a few (usually poor) Chinese people eat it. realize that most Chinese people realize that its sick, dont wry.
2007-01-24 10:09:28 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, Chinese don't eat cats. They don't taste good.
2007-01-24 02:50:18 · answer #10 · answered by spot 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Put it this way...Do you ever see stray cats or dogs in Chinese neighborhoods???
2007-01-24 04:48:50 · answer #11 · answered by Bartholomew Dilligaff 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋