Fairly recently, I read of a place in the Far East (I have forgotten exactly where now) and in this area, dog and cat meat is very popular, and there are restaurants devoted to either one or the other.
As if that isn't truly awful enough, to add to it, the cats are kept as pets, given fairly decent lives. They all look healthy and bright. They live as inside/outside cats. But when they reach a certain age (can't remember what that is now, but it is not very old) they are used as food. The so-called caretakers of these cats do not view this practice as unusual or even cruel, it is just the custom.
I honestly don't know how they do it.
I think it would be the same here concerning sheep, pigs, etc. If a person keeps the animal as a family member, then it becomes near-impossible to kill it for food. (Although in the case of a sheep or goat, its wool or milk might be used.)
Yet in that country they can pet the cats with one hand and slaughter them with the other. It is not as if the people have no other source of food or are in terrible poverty.
As if that isn't truly awful enough, to add to it, the cats are kept as pets, given fairly decent lives. They all look healthy and bright. They live as inside/outside cats. But when they reach a certain age (can't remember what that is now, but it is not very old) they are used as food. The so-called caretakers of these cats do not view this practice as unusual or even cruel, it is just the custom.
I honestly don't know how they do it.
I think it would be the same here concerning sheep, pigs, etc. If a person keeps the animal as a family member, then it becomes near-impossible to kill it for food. (Although in the case of a sheep or goat, its wool or milk might be used.)
Yet in that country they can pet the cats with one hand and slaughter them with the other. It is not as if the people have no other source of food or are in terrible poverty.
