Posted on 01/26/2010 10:03:09 PM PST by pissant
Widespread and ancient practice of eating dog meat increasingly distasteful for China's growing affluent, pet-loving middle class
Chinese legal experts are proposing a ban on eating dogs and cats in a contentious move to end a culinary tradition dating back thousands of years.
The recommendation will be submitted to higher authorities in April as part of a draft bill to tackle animal abuse.
In ancient times, dog meat was considered a medicinal tonic. Today, it is commonly available throughout the country, but particularly in the north where dog stew is popular for its supposed warming qualities.
In recent years, however, such traditions are increasingly criticised by an affluent, pet-loving, urban middle class. Online petitions against dog and cat consumption have attracted tens of thousands of signatures. Videos showing the maltreatment of farmed dogs have spurred protests at markets where the animals are bought and sold.
But the drafters of the new proposal want far more drastic measures, which would oblige law enforcement authorities to close down thousands of dog restaurants and butchers which supply the meat.
According to the draft, illegal sale or consumption of pets would incur a maximum penalty of 15 days in prison for individuals or a 500,000 yuan fine for businesses. Public security bureaus would be obliged to respond to hotline calls from the public about violations.
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Guess this means more CHOW Mein for all.
More bark for your dollar.
“Dog makes a fine meal” Mel Gibson in The Patriot.
lulz, they certainly are not doing for the humane factor....must be running low on dogs and cats. =.=
Well, sure. There’s one particular “Boxer” I’d like to donate to the Chinese cause.
Help the Chinese liberal activist achive for China all they’ve achived for America!
By the way my Jack Russell is a spoiled rotten little.......!
Chinese legal(lawyers) experts call for ban on eating cats and dogs.
The lawyers probably want them all for themselves.
Maybe they’re on thier way to achiving the American Dream? What could go wrong?
I once saw a most disturbing video of crates and crates filled w/ kittens in the back of a restaurant in China and how one kitten was taken out and cooked alive. It was a horror to watch and I pray to God this news is correct and this practice will once and for all come to an end.
Guess you won’t be ordering any crabs or lobsters anytime soon either.
No more woking the dog?
Can’t believe there’s not been any comment yet about eating p....! (ahem...pekinese dogs/persian cats...ahem)
exactly
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 purrin’ 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, boys:
They fry it real crisp in dough.
...
Chou Lin asked if I wanted more
As he was dialin’ 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 suckin’ on a Rolaid and a Tums or two
When I swear I heard it mew, boys:
And that is when I knew...
...
There’s a cat in the kettle at the Peking Moon
I think I gotta stop eatin’ there at noon.
They say that it’s beef or fish or pork
But it’s purrin’ there on my fork.
There’s a hair-ball on my fork.
classic!
I was thinking that same thing. “Hey working class Chinese welcome to our hell where we do the work and the leftist do the bitching.”
Some years ago in Miami I had a friend who grew up in a rather poor section of town. As the years passed, more and more of his new neighbors were recent Haitian immigrants. Shortly after moving in, they would bring home a sorry-looking stray dog. Over the next few months, the dog would be well fed and cared for.
Then, on a weekend, the neighbors would hold a great backyard barbecue party. The dog would disappear, only to be replaced by another stray within the next week or two, and the cycle would repeat itself.
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