Animal Rights Campaigners: Stop Eating Cats at Christmas Dinner

[octoberlib]

Animal rights campaigners in Switzerland would appreciate it if the three percent of the country's population that eats domestic cats and dogs would kindly stop eating them, the BBC reports.

Although the sale of cat and dog meat is banned in Switzerland, it's still legal to eat your own domestic animals, something Swiss animal protection group SOS Chats Noirague claims a small segment of the population is secretly doing. (They're looking at you, Lucerne, Appenzell, Jura, and Bern.)

Cat is a traditional Christmas dish in some areas, "often cooked for the festive season in a similar way to rabbit—with white wine and garlic," the BBC reports.Dog meat is mainly used for sausages and to cure rheumatism.

SOS Chats has started a petition to parliament to outlaw the consumption of les poor little chats et chiens, which has now collected more than 16,000 signatures. The organization led a successful charge to ban the sale of cat skins last year, but hunting stray cats remains legal because ministers felt a spay and neuter campaign would be too costly.

http://gawker.com/animal-rights-campaigners-stop-eating-cats-at-christma-1663905219

[Samantha]

1. Beyond gross - how could they? nt

[Jenoch]

2. This reads a lot like The Onion to me.

[BlueJazz]

3. I understand it's a culture thing but it's one of those things that is far, far away from my...

...acceptance regarding my personal thoughts. Just-couldn't-do-it.

[Warren DeMontague]

4. You mean I have to go all the way to Switzerland, just to...

Oh, never mind.

[jberryhill]

8. Don't litter this thread with your catty remarks

[Warren DeMontague]

9. Just trying to find out what's new....

oh, never mind

[jberryhill]

10. Sounds like something got your tongue

Your posts seem to be missing a clause.

[Warren DeMontague]

11. Never should have let him out of the bag.

[Aerows]

16. Both of you are just

pussy-footing around.

[Quantess]

5. If this were before the days of spaying & neutering,

and there was also widespread hunger, I could understand. It sounds so backward and uncivilized, to me.

[yuiyoshida]

6. This is gross...and I thought

It was just South Korea... too many stories about this kind of thing. I have had my cat for years, Love him..but I have teased him saying.. if you don't stop doing this and that I will eat you right up..and he looks at me with those big cat eyes and says.. . meow.

[jberryhill]

19. people have long eaten cats everywhere

I don't know why various Asians get singled out for cat or dog eating. People everywhere have eaten whatever animals could be persuaded to stick around.

[jberryhill]

7. "My Pet Goat: The True Story"

[aikoaiko]

12. How is cat prepared and served?

[Recursion]

13. Like rabbit, apparently. So "katzenpfeffer"

This recipe even mentions substituting cat for rabbit

http://fxcuisine.com/Default.asp?language=2&Display=139&resolution=high

[jberryhill]

14. First, you have to slaughter it nine times, if it's a fresh cat

[KinMd]

15. "Mom, have you seen Fluffy?"

[olddots]

20. Kitty On A Stick is changing its name

To Fluffy In A Bun so nobody will be offended anymore .

[REP]

21. You can order it in a Swiss restaurant but you must pay with bags of gold teeth