Feline cuisine linked with SARS (eating civet cats suspected)

Sydney Morning Herald ^ | May 24 2003

[Khepera]

So the SARS virus survives cooking or are they eating them raw?

[mr.pink]

I guess Richard Pryor' Uncle was right.

[Portnoy]

Civets???

Feh! That's why I stick with Beef. Its safe...

...oh wait...nevermind!

[Rodney King]

My guess would be that it doesn't come from eating them, but from the unsanitary conditions in the market i.e. the blood and feces and stuff all over the place.

[sarasota]

Karmic payback.

[Principled]

Jeez, did PETA know about this?

[Grut]

I kind of wonder if this is about SARS or wild-animal markets, and if the SARS connection may not be a simple slander against a practice the author clearly finds appalling.

[tallhappy]

This article is written more as some psycho animal rights propaganda than as a news story about a research finding.

[theFIRMbss]

>Civet cats, now suspected of being at the center of the global SARS outbreak, have long been considered exotic cuisine for those with adventurous taste buds

"Farm me, will ya? Cage
me, will ya? Do it. Eat me.
See what it gets ya!"

[Conspiracy Guy]

I only eat tabby.

[Alouette]

Looks more like a muskrat or possum.

[dead]

I agree with you guys. This is more like propaganda from the PETA crowd than it is serious science.

Note that they're citing evidence of linkage that a university produced just last Friday, but have been conducting their campaign against the practice for the last month.

Either the animal rights activists conducted their own medical research that the university just confirmed, or the animal rights people decided to link SARS to this practice and then scoured the globe looking for anybody who could establish some flimsy connection. I'm betting the latter, of course.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Civet Cats are related to skunks, I believe.

[2nd Amendment]

There goes my supper! Nothing like civet cat and lobster

[epluribus_2]

Cats - It's What's for Dinner!

(Sorry VK! - could be p&^%$# but that would get me in trouble)

[VadeRetro]

The Chinese are related to the Cajuns! The New Orleans Zoo posts the common name, scientific classification, and recipe on every animal display.

[Mo1]

Crammed into small cages with not enough room to stretch their legs, the furry creatures are dragged out and beaten to death in front of customers to ensure freshness when buyers order one up.

They are then dunked into a huge pot of boiling water and if the animals are still not dead after being boiled, the vendors throw them to the ground and club them some more until they no longer move.

Then the creatures are skinned and chopped into pieces and put in a bag to be taken to restaurants or home where they usually await guests at large fancy banquets.

Any chance this reporter is from PETA??

[Pearls Before Swine]

That ain't chicken in your chicken chow mein.

[Nebullis]

See also the earlier post here.