Monday March 9, 2009, 11:07 am
The basic principal is that Chinese will eat any animal whose back faces the sun. That's their culture - shark fin soup, tiger, bear etc.

Monday March 9, 2009, 11:16 am
oh, isn't that great, the butcher feels "NOTHING" when killing a cat....
I am so sick of Culture being the excuse for so much atocity

Monday March 9, 2009, 11:55 am
Absolutely disgusting and should be stopped immediately, can I help at all.

Claire Verity ( Channel 4's Bringing Up Baby )

Monday March 9, 2009, 11:56 am
This is so sickening. There are many activists in China now trying to end this. If anyone can do it, it will be them. They turn a deaf ear to us. I pray for these poor cats. My heart breaks for them. Noted with tears. Thanks Simone.

Monday March 9, 2009, 12:57 pm
I don't agree with this belief - i'm only saying that they will eat anything and everything under the sun

Monday March 9, 2009, 1:56 pm
I have heard of this before. I think they eat dogs to. It does not surprise me. Any country that treats women bad also treats animals badly. I do not understand why people think they have to eat dead animals to survive.

Monday March 9, 2009, 2:07 pm
Horrible, it makes me sick. What is the world coming to.
Shirley H.

Monday March 9, 2009, 2:32 pm
CHINA IS A POLICE STATE where authorities torture and kill its own citizens at police stations, in prisons, and forced labor camps. If you don't believe this - just google "china torture" and watch for yourself. Could it be there is a link between animal cruelty and abuses against people?

Monday March 9, 2009, 3:17 pm
1. Does anybody have a rational reason for being indignant about this, or is it just because cats are cute?

2. Tierney, that would be because, despite vegan propaganda, humans are built to include meat in their diet. The only two sources of complete protein in nature are meat and quinoa. Quinoa is so specialized environmentally that it can't be economically grown on a scale to replace meat. Chimpanzees, our closest genetic relative, also eat meat as part of their diet, generally in the form of insects or monkeys.

Monday March 9, 2009, 3:41 pm
Humans are designed to be Vegetarians from physiology to spirituality.
You can do your own research.

The horrid treatment of all animals in China is one for every single human being on the planet to be outraged and cause world wide protest.

The fact that there is a mofia stealing people's pets off the streets, the fact that cats are boiled alive, remaining alive for up to 10 minutes in blood curdling water, the fact that cats are skinned alive to make the process easier...

Is one of many reason people like you Jack should be ashamed and outraged at such disgusting cruelty.

Monday March 9, 2009, 4:10 pm
The Chinese are natural meat eaters since with their massive population vegetarianism cannot be sustained and not being picky, any kind of meat will do. We people who have cats as pets feel affronted at the choice of meat, but what is the alternative. Massive explosions of population always brings in its wake a high insensibility to human kindness, there just isn't the time to spare. Its rampant here in India, but fortunately the people have strict diet restrictions which involve caste, so most animals have a good life.

Monday March 9, 2009, 4:53 pm
So breed less perhaps?

Monday March 9, 2009, 7:30 pm
Noted, this is so sad.

Monday March 9, 2009, 7:35 pm
Jack I am sick of your meat eating propaganda! No we do not need meat to survive. I am living proof. Most of my life I have been a vegetarian. It was not until I saw how badly animals are treated in fctory farms around the world that I went Vegan. You are in denial. Typical.

Monday March 9, 2009, 8:51 pm
Denise,

Absolutely none of your arguments make sense and sadly this kind of false information promotes animal exploitation around the world.

It costs FAR less resources to feed an entire planet Vegetarian than it does raise cattle, raise cats, raise dogs and raise farm animals.

Not only this, but it further supports the idea that eating meat is necessary and cruelty is necessary. It is important for all human beings to evolve beyond these selfish and uneducated ideas that meat is necessary for a "healthy" diet.

Denise, you have just stated that although in India there is a burgeoning population, people there are able to live off of restricted diets such as Vegetarian diets so this is possible.

There IS no excuse for cruelty anywhere. It is pure laziness. Without an effort to find alternative ways.
People in China are not starving as they are all over Africa. They are large area's of crops and farmlands available everywhere. There is no excuse for eating cats and other endangered species from around the world that are considered delicacies.

They pulverize dogs and slice them apart while alive to increase adrenaline and increase texture. They eat all sorts of endangered species that are supposedly part of their Traditional Chinese Medicine, but is nothing but superstition.

For the sake of our planet and our animals we ALL have to stop thinking there is ANY excuse for cruelty and exploitation of ANY animal!

Tuesday March 10, 2009, 1:17 pm
Has anyone noticed that there is a decided lack of shame or concern or compassion in this world and it seems to have become amplified lately as if the horror is being flaunted...the dignity and the beauty of animals everywhere is being flushed away like garbage-and the ones who are committing the crimes just keep on-I would love to see the day that China surrenders its so called culture to the betterment of animals-

and many other countries that have no respect or appreciation for these hapless creatures take pity and change their practices. We can hope that someone in China has a conscience and is haunted by the spectre of these tragedies. We can only hope!

Beloved companions are taken everyday-and the monsters that take them-think nothing of it. They are all empty. There must be an end to this ongoing nightmare...I salute the ones who are trying to rise up against everywhere.Thanks Simone-

Tuesday March 10, 2009, 2:48 pm
It is a horrible situation that should be stopped. No animal should have to suffer death to satisfy our appetite for meat. Humans can live without meat, and thank god, millions on this planet are doing it. Please before you cast the stone against China for cooking up cats and dogs, look in your own plate and wonder why the cow you have for dinner is worth less tears than the cat or dog in China. All animals have the capacity to feel pain and suffer immensely when they are treated like objects instead of like sentient beings. It doesn't matter if their fluffy and cuddly or not. Go Veg.

Tuesday March 10, 2009, 6:28 pm
my heart aches terribly for those cats and dogs tears are just about coming to my eyes as i write this.God only knows what else they consume,their,not a sophisticated nation,anything that resembles"meat"appeals to their eyes and is good for food, regardless of any feelings any of any kind it is no object to them wonder this is not directed towards race, but culture and government.I highly detest and loathe their insensitivety not only towards cruel mistreatment of animals but also lack of respect for other countries and their lack of good common sense and judgement in becoming peacemakers;How dare they!!!

Friday March 20, 2009, 9:38 pm
Rational would imply using a factual counterargument, not sanctimoniously claiming truth based on your alleged moral superiority and regurgitated propaganda. I'm not impressed with either. There is a grand total of 1 complete protein source outside of the animal kingdom, quinoa, which is really limited on where it will grow. You would be much more likely to change my mind by citing another one, that it is possible to grow widely, than by ineptly trying to shame me into obedience.

Sure it's possible to meet the ideal requirements with a vegetarian diet. You just need a fully stocked supermarket, sufficient disposable income, time and the nutritional training to properly mix multiple incomplete protein sources. Not really a combination available in most countries, and impractical for most.

Amanda, China doesn't have an abundance of arable land. It's around 10% of the country if memory serves, and erosion is cutting that considerably. Not all land is equally useful for any particular type of crop.

Mongolia eats a much larger proportion of meat in their diet, and has no real choice in the matter. Lots of grazing land, not a lot suitable for farming, and a 3 month long growth season means that they already import most of their plant based food. They are one of the most sparsely populated, and poorest countries in the world. Care to provide your detailed plan for changing them to veganism?

Tierney, that was my first ever post. How exactly can you be sick of my "meat eating propaganda" already?