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China's animal lovers fight illegal cat meat trade

www.bangkokpost.com China's animal lovers fight illegal cat meat trade

SUZHOU (CHINA) - When Han Jiali's beloved cat Dabai was taken from her Shanghai home last year, she embarked on a hunt for her pet that took her deep into the bowels of China's underground feline meat trade.

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Most people in China do not eat cat meat

Most people in China do not think they eat cat meat.

Also, when you press ctrl+c on this page you get a bunch of extra crap copied..

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Edit: In fairness, most people in the Western world don't think they eat horse meat. If anything could be learned from the Tesco scandal (and there certainly was no punishment) it's that the practice of substituting meat is widespread throughout the food industry. Turkey for chicken is one of my pet hates.

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- Most people in China do not think they eat cat meat.
  
  Ouch
  
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  Meouch
  
  FTFY
  
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- Horse meat is common in Switzerland. There are restaurants specialising in it.
  
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  I'm referring to it being used as a cheap substitute in products advertised as beef or other meats. There was a scandal with Tesco products containing it.
  
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I ate bobcat once, it was nasty.

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- Lemmy is so toxic. Why down vote this?
  
  Bobcats and house cats are obligate carnivores. Even if people doubt that you actually ate bobcat, I pretty much guarantee that it would be gross.
  
  Outside of fish, where there are additional trophic levels, there are two reasons that we don't eat carnivores.
  
  First, there are fewer carnivores. The common figure is that in nature if you want 1 pound of animal, you need 10 pounds of animal food (I'm simplifying). So 100 pounds of herbivore food makes 10 pounds of herbivore which makes 1 pound of carnivore. And if you want to farm an animal it can't be competing with you for food. It needs to, in general, eat stuff you don't want to eat. Like grass or table scraps or bugs. We can eat herbivore meat. We love it so much that whenever we showed up, we ate everything to extinction.
  
  Cats are separate. They kinda domesticated themselves because when we started storing grain lots of rodents showed up. They just ate them, doing both of us a favor.
  
  Second, they taste nasty. We've got poultry. They eat "bugs" those are more like the plankton type trophic level. When they can catch things like snakes or mice, they go absolutely nuts, but they do so more rarely than obligate carnivores.
  
  Then, there's pigs. They have a similar enough diet as poultry, but we do feed them meat scraps. I can guess about why this is, but I can't be as confident as I am about my other statements.
  
  Finally, humans are alleged to taste like pig. Maybe that's it.
  
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Crossposted to lemmygrad? Oh wait, no.

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What about beef and pork?

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- I knew the first comment I would see when I open this post is some smartass saying “WhAtAbOuT!-“
  
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  Thanks! I thought I'd be that smartass.
  
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- No, they're ugly, they barely have any lovers. I would personally kill them for no reason, and then cook their meat 'til it's well done; so that no one can find a benefit and therefore a justification for their slaughter.
  
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  I can't tell if this is satire or not
  
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It's natural to eat meat, I have canines. Also where should I get my B12??

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- Just because something is natural does not make it the optimal or best choice. It's natural for us to shit in the woods but I don't see many people arguing we should do away with toilets. As for B12, there are plenty of vegan sources and supplements readily available
  
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  Supplements aren't much of an answer for getting vitamins unless you can't get them normally, for example due to one's body not processing it very well from diet alone
  
  Here's a great link to foods high in B-12.
  
  Edit: Link fixed, now goes to the top of the article rather than the middle.
  
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  I'm vegan I agree.
  
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- Plain Cheerios each morning and marmite on toast (with peanut butter or in a sandwich with other things) make sure I get enough B12 without having to resort to supplements. (I'm not full vegan anymore either, just very heavily lean that direction.)
  
  (Gross fact: gorillas and many other non-ruminant herbivores get their B12 via coprophagia.)
  
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  Did you just tell me to eat shit? /s
  
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  I'm vegan I agree.
  
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  It's such a farcical argument. Along with being able to get it through a variety of foods, as you've mentioned, the supplements themselves are extremely affordable and quite easily obtainable. I supplement with the Live Conscious B12 drops once a week and at my last 6month blood test (get them regularly to ensure no vitamin deficiencies and other issues) the doc actually recommended I stop the drops since my levels were in the too high category 😆. And that's from once a week supplementation, along with just eating a diverse and nutrient rich diet as you mentioned.
  
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