[dawn53]

I really didn't have a point. No condemnation of China from me as in order to feed that large a population, you use whatever you've got, I guess. Hey, there were also insects, reptiles, rodents and all sorts of other stuff for sale.

Just thought it was curious that animals we consider "domesticated" ended up on the dinner table, or in a zoo. I don't know many people who keep cows, chickens or minks in their homes, so that is why I view dogs and cats as domesticated. Maybe you can housetrain a cow, I don't know, LOL.

We ate dog and cat, not to mention snake and probably a few rats while we were there. But coming from a western country there is a bit of culture shock when you see what you consider to be domesticated animals being slaughtered for food. Not that we in the US don't kill lots of dogs and cats that are abandoned at our pounds. It's just the food aspect of it that was unusual.

Of course, in the same market we saw tiger paws and rhinocerous horns, but that's a different issue.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

The folks who are defending this practice miss one of the main points of the article. People who say "we eat cows, they eat dogs, what's the difference?" either miss, or deliberately choose to ignore, the manner in which the dogs are killed.

[Lake]

>>We ate dog and cat,

You know what this is called in Chinese? "Xu Wei", means hypocritical. A Chinese proverb about how a mother taeches his son. The mother tells the son not to be close to butchers (since butchers are so cruel and pigs being slaughtered are so poor and helpless) while giving her son a delicious dish of pork.

[NC_Libertarian]

Not that we in the US don't kill lots of dogs and cats that are abandoned at our pounds.

We don't torture them first.