The consumption of cat meat

Cruelty is the strength of the cowards. Arab proverb. Incredible but true that there are human beings that still maintain an animal instinct, and it shows with the consumption of cat meat, where for many it is a pet. The aberrant, just accept it the way the animal is sacrificed, with beatings, and often slaughtered in a way that leaves a lot to say, regardless of the suffering of the animal, especially when he takes off his leather coats to market it. Wikipedia on this tough issue, shows that some Asian cultures have used cat meat sporadically, as in southern China (Guangdong Province) and northern Vietnam, as well as food (meatballs are very popular cat ) or as a medicinal remedy, cat meat is cooked in Korea to develop a tonic soup is popular belief as a remedy against neuralgia and arthritis. It is noted that traditionally, in Europe, the cat has been considered as food for poor and lower classes, "The greedy, cat no estimate as much as the skin does not eat meat but some miserable wretches, but the skins they take to save their doubloons "(Friar Hernando de Santiago, Considerations on the Gospels, Valladolid, 1606).

Giving rise to expressions like "ragamuffin" to refer to those who have no property in Spain there instances of use of cat meat in artificial activation of the fermentation of some wines, these activities led to the expression "came with cat" typical when grease was detected at the edges of wine glasses. In the past the rogue was the similarity with the rabbit or the hare to serve in his place, made this medieval hoax became popular expression "to swindle". It also indicates that in some localities in Peru, especially among Afro-Peruvian community, is usually done with cat meat dishes such as stews that take place at the feast in honor of Santa Efigenia, Patron and Protector of the Black Art Peru, where the festival is celebrated Curruñau. The festival is held every September in the old Hacienda La Quebrada district of San Luis de Cañete, south of Lima. However, as discussed elsiglodetorreon.com.mx. Chinese and Koreans who have taken over and taste at home cat-meat seasoned with spices imported from their countries, black mushrooms and other accompaniments.

Chinese and Korean cargo ships bring in their cans of smuggled Russian caviar purchased in the markets of Gdansk (formerly Danzig), Sebastopol, Riga and other towns in Eastern Europe, and change a couple of cans for a sack full of cats . It adds that it is difficult to strike up a conversation with the Chinese on how to prepare the cats as they are limited only to smile and admit that, by tradition and custom, cats and dogs are eaten at home. Hence the bad joke which says that the Chinese, which runs on the earth, just do not eat the locomotives, while rejecting only sea submarines. Algiers has thus become a city without cats, which suggests that rodents also feel at ease and proliferate without problems, so what would be needed here Pied Piper recurrence. Chinese and Korean cats continue to cook for their own consumption, the meat, if it has aphrodisiac qualities, it seems that has other merits as one of the finest in the Asian environment. On this sad reality in the XXI century, animalpeoplenews.org.

indicates that the faces of dogs and cats waiting to be eaten, in the market for Moran, on the outskirts of Seoul, South Korea, is the most painful thing you can imagine a defender of wildlife. The Silence of the desperate and dehydrated animals is something unexpected into the expected shock. Most of the dogs may bark, but just do it. Only a few scattered purebred puppy and tries to chew the end of a nylon rope that swings, nurture the hope that something could go differently. Cats exhibit stunned bleeding wounds apparently due to blows to the forehead. Roosters take out their necks between the bars of their cages overcrowded and instead of singing, sounds thrown off in an effort to breathe. The filthy market Moran includes four short streets, which can be seen from uncomfortable outdated kennels, near the main street, to a degree of negligence shown by the troubled animal hoarders. Among cats, piled in stacks of three or four, living among the dead, a cat heat exhausted, dehydrated and ill probably still trying to comfort her kittens in the midst of the stench of gutted rabbits after electric cable or a whack on the head, sticky chicken by its own excrement inside the cage, gutted fish in buckets of dog carcasses over small cages with live dogs, and steam coming from the pots with cats that may have been boiled alive, Kim Bartlett, editor of ANIMAL PEOPLE, began to mourn.

As she wept, she caught a fleeting glance of sympathy of a woman whose dreadful display was photographed. The photo was one of the 72 that Bartlett took the May 19, 2001, during a visit of two hours in the company market Moran Merritt Clifton, editor of ANIMAL PEOPLE, Kyenan Kum, founder of International Aid for Korean Animais (International Aid Korean Animal) and Tammy Kirkpatrick, animal care specialist at North Shore Animal League (North Shore Animal). It also indicates that Korean culture considers the dog butchers still lower than prostitutes, "explained Kyenan Kum." A parent does not want your son or daughter to incorporate this business. "But once caught in it , by birth or marriage, continued Kum, a person may feel unable to escape. "Korea," said Kum, "as patriarchal society dictates that a woman should serve her husband, even if it works on something that makes you feel ashamed . "faces also find blatant, hostile, confused, curious and indifferent between sellers of Moran. Mostly, however, passersby when they turned the faces of dogs and cats merchants looked to them for support during the two hours of photographs.

Even people who came to buy dogs or cats for dinner were reluctant to reveal their purpose .. The suspected customers passed slowly over and over, avoiding eye contact. It seemed that nobody wanted to buy, at least until they felt observed by us. Incredible but true, that during the 1986-1991 campaign for the existing legislation against cat and dog meat, Brian Davies, founder of the International Fund for Animal Welfare (International Fund for Animal Welfare) estimated in 1988 that the South Koreans consumed a million dogs and cats during the year, and that the estimate was raised in 1991 to "more than two million dogs and thousands of cats." Despite the 1991 legislation, the South Koreans ate three million dogs per year around 1996, according to David Derbyshire, Daily Mail London correspondent, who did not even attempt to estimate the consumption of cats, is thought to Moran market sells half of the total volume of dogs and cats for meat in the Seoul area. This city has about 20% of the total population of South Korea. Doing the math in different ways and trying to take all variables into account seasonal, ANIMAL PEOPLE estimated, although there is considerable scope for error, the actual number of dogs sold for meat is about 1.1 to 1.3 million , which would mean a decline between half and two thirds in the consumption of the last five to ten years.

Market data suggest Moran that the number of cats killed per year may be around 100,000.