An acquaintance of mine claims that dog is quite tasty (whereas his Mandarin wife is of the opinion that only Cantonese and other lowlife eat dogs).
ew, ew, ew, and did i mention ‘EW’???
:eek::eek::eek:
As usual the Family Circus has already covered this issue
I prefer to see it as a “cultural preference” rather than illegal or immoral. Some people find it revolting to eat pigs or cows and a lot of western culture doesn’t think twice about it. Isn’t horse meat big in other cultures as well?
I have cats, I do rescue and love cats. I couldn’t knowingly do it, just as I couldn’t knowingly eat dog.
Well yeah, but a dog’s got personality.
The straight girl?
I’m going on a limb here. No can come up with a statute in the western world that forbids eating cats.
Isn’t it enough to make you sick? And I’m telling you - them pussycats is quick!
I thought some settlers subsisted on bear and racoon meat?
Quite good, apparently.
Quick research tells me that dog and cat meat can not be served in US restaurants as it is not USDA inspected. You can, however, slaughter your own animals (humanely) and eat them. Not sure how true all that is.
Morality is another issue. Obviously, some morals vary from culture to culture. Personally, I have no problem with people eating cats.
Given how little meat there is on rabbits, I’d agree with this.
IMHO, cats are useful as rodent catchers, and rabbits are tasty vegetarian pests who eat your crops.
As to whether or not it’s illegal, some US cities have laws prohibiting the consumption of domestic companion animals, but those are rare. There was a proposition on the ballot in California a few years ago that would have made it illegal to kill horses for meat. I don’t believe it passed.
It is a misdemeanor in Virginia to kill a cat for its hide. There are also prohibitions on “cruelly or unnecessarily” killing a “companion animal.” Conceivably a prospective ailurophage could thread a path through those statutes.
I have eaten bobcat spaghetti, it really wasn’t that bad but the sauce kind of took over the dish. I would equate it to ground turkey in that it just didn’t have a lot of flavor. I did notice that my GI tract wasn’t really used to that particular game animal.
From what I know people don’t usually eat carnivores and omnivores because the risk of trichinosis. Though pigs garner most of the worry over trichinosis, it was mostly home raised pigs that were fed uncooked meat and meat scraps as feed that were the real problem. With the advent of large industrial pig farming trichinosis is largely gone from modern store bought pork.
Of all the cases of trichinosis I have hear of in the last 10 years, one was a case from mountain lion meat and the rest were from bear meat. I have to believe that in my own experience bear meat would be a likely culprit because it is really tasty and resembles beef in that your inclination is to cook it on the rare side whereas it should always be cook well done.
My cousins in India reacted with absolute horror when I told I ate beef.
Personally, I would be a little icked out by the idea of eating dog and cat. It’s purely cultural, as there isn’t any reason why cats at least should bother me. Dogs are faithful companions so there’s that but as far as I can see people own cats to be studiously ignored. 
For instance, in the Yucatan (a region in Mexico), by the same token you’d never again be able to eat cheese. (Or to talk about eating cheese, at least.)
It appears to be legal in Rushville, Indiana, according to a district attorney there. Weekly World News - Google Books
According to a book I read, in WWII a Brit who was a prisoner of the Japanese, and wasn’t fed well, said anything that walked, crawled, hopped, or slithered, and they could catch, was on the menu. His comment was that (to the best of my memory, so this may not be an exact quote) “dog tastes like coarse beef, and cat tastes like rabbit, only better”. Can’t speak on either from personal experience, however.
There’s probably local statutes, here or there, but I doubt there is a state/province or national law anywhere that forbids it. I’m going out on (gnawing on (eewwww!)) a limb, here, too, so won’t be surprised if someone comes along and cites an actual statute in force, somewhere, to refute me.
It’s totally legal on the planet Melmac. Or at least it was before Melmac blew up.