[null and void]

Recipe for Plague:
Fewer cats.
More rats.

[sam_paine]

So many lessons here....so many levels.

All of them boil down to unintended consequences of government meddling.

[canuck_conservative]

It’s an old truism, but you can judge people a lot by the way they treat animals.

[Michael.SF.]

Guess they could use a few million copies of this:

[Digital Sniper]

Cat in the Kettle

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Did you ever think when you eat Chinese,
It ain't pork or chicken but a fat siamese
Yet the food tastes great so you don't complain
But that's not chicken in your chicken chow mein
Seems to me I ordered sweet and sour pork
But Garfield's on my fork
He's purring here on my fork

There's a cat in the kettle at the Peking Moon
The place that I eat every day at noon
They can feed you cat and you'll never know
Once they wrap it up in dough, boy,
They fry it real crisp in dough

Chow Lin asks if I wanted more,
As he was dialling up his buddy at the old pet store
I said not today, I lost my appetite,
There's two cats in my belly and they want to fight
I was sucking on a Rolaids and a Tums or two
When I swear I heard it mew, boy
And that is when I knew

There's a cat in the kettle at the Peking Moon
I think I got to stop eating there at noon
They say that it's beef or fish or pork
But it's purring there on my fork
There's a hair ball on my fork

[chemicalman]

Someone call PETA!

They're not going to bother because they'll be eaten anyway.

[353FMG]

“Terrified cats crammed tightly into cages are hauled off to a meat market in Guangzhou”

I thought that the meat smelled kinda funny at the supermarket this morning. I did notice, however, that it was extremely lean.

[krb]

One cat lovers' group negotiated the release of 30 pets from one of the compounds

Sounds like a euphemism for "paid a bribe."

[krb]

Cat's in the Kettle

[mickey finn]

Meoschwitz or Mowschwitz?

[SlapHappyPappy]

Surely Westboro Baptist Church will include this in their protest at the Olympics.

[A knight without armor]

Those cages remind me of pictures I've seen of Chinese cats waiting to be butchered in restaurants (in China). What always amazes me is how they have the colorings and markings of just regular housecats we are so familiar with. When I heard of cats being slaughtered en mass for food and such I don't know why I pictured all gray or brown wild-looking cats. Like the common brown dogs pictured running around streets in the third world. Interesting how cats don't have to be bred special to maintain their colorful markings.

[mamelukesabre]

Well, if the chinese are so poor and hungry, they can just eat those cats. THen when the rats take over, they can eat those too. The chinese aren’t picky about what they eat.

[uglybiker]

"There are no cats here, go away. No one is allowed inside unless you have official permission,"

[kenmcg]

Duh, I think I’ll pass on Chinese food in the future.

[Mercat]

these people kill their baby girls, why would they care about their cats.

[Biggirl]

Yep, trade one plague for another.

[kennedy]

Recipe for Plague:
Fewer cats.
More rats.

Before killing off 500,000 urban feral cats, it might be wise to consider what will happen to the rat population.

[dinodino]

[Slings and Arrows]

Second thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1982946/posts

[GovernmentShrinker]

It would cost next to nothing to humanely euthanize these cats by putting them in an enclosed space and hooking up an exhaust pipe. There is abig rabies problem in China, so I can understand if the STRAY cat population is so out of control that they have to do mass round-ups and killings, but it would be easy and cheap to do it humanely. But there’s no reason take housecats that either kept indoors or spayed/neutered. The Chinese government is just sadistic. They are alos doing forced relocations of people who have nowhere to go, and destroying their homes and businesses to clear out the city as a PR show. I will have no respect for any athlete who participates in these Olympics. The right thing to do is to decline to go and say why publicly.