In the Afro-Peruvian cuisine of Cañete (Lima) and Chincha (Ica) cat is eaten, but it’s far from a staple.
IIRC some discussion I had about “clean” vs “unclean” in Egypt, someone mentioned that Muslims don’t eat any animal that ate other animals. (as well as pigs, and after all, pigs are omnivores).
[obligatory zombie joke]
Are zombies considered a delicacy anywhere? How would you know if they are, you know, fresh? Are they kept alive (?) in the market until purchased, and then butchered alive (?) on the spot for the customer? Is fresh zombie an oxymoron? 
[/obligatory zombie joke]
Anyway: What was that cat driver arrested for? Is it illegal to eat (or traffic) cat there? Or was he arrested just for general smuggling stuff across a border? Or just for crossing a border himself without proper papers, or not at a proper border crossing?
ETA: Okay, I read the article. Sounds like there are general laws against animal cruelty (they were badly caged), and illegal export (smuggling). Nothing about cats, specifically, being illegal to eat that I see in that article.
I spent a month in Indonesia when I was a kid (1985 I think), one night one of the locals took us to a street restaurant called “The Cat and the Frog”.
Frog legs were on the menu and I have no reason to think cat wasn’t, I know there was at least one dish that our friend was hesitant to ID the meat. 
Ya know, I had what I thought was an obvious joke to make here, but then I saw the thread was over a decade old and nobody made it… so I won’t either. 
I’m not sure of the exact charges. Smuggling would be the big one probably. There are animal-cruelty laws here, but that’s often like handing out speeding tickets at the Indy 500. One reads about a lot of animal smugglers taking loads from Malaysia up into China, but those cases always involve endangered or other exotic species. There’s a big international trade in pangolins, for example, and that’s always in the news. But cats? There’s a sizable Vietnamese population in Thailand, and I’ve only ever heard of dogs. Nor have I seen cat on any menu in Vietnam. (I didn’t see dog either, but maybe I just didn’t go to the right restaurants.)
There was TV news footage of this bust too. I didn’t see that, but someone who did told me the poor little kitties looked scared as hell.
As far as I know, God made cats out of meat.
I find cat a bit too civety for my liking
Let’s face it. I doubt there is anything that someone, somewhere won’t eat, AND like.
Kind of like sex.
For everything (and anything) that one can think of, that would make you or I go “Ewwwwww!”, there is someone else out there going “Oooooooooh!”, over the exact same thing. :eek:
Yeah, are these cat cats or civet cats?
In Paris I was told by a butcher that since then, or thenabouts, it is the law that fresh rabbits be displayed looking something like rabbits. As opposed to that photo at cite, when I was there I saw rabbits skinned but for their furry little feet.
ETA: So the French don’t as a rule eat cats.
LOL! Was it …Tastes like PUSSY.
I imagine that cat tastes horrible, but if a wildman is living in the woods, and that’s all he can find, it’s better than starving… I suppose.
See, now this is what I’m used to. This time it’s 70 caged dogs rescued on their way to the dinner table in Vietnam. The story does mention that smugglers are turning to cats more now since Vietnamese demand for dogs is becoming more difficult to meet.
The photos are rather disturbing, so I’ll break the link:
Read here about the cat(and dog) meat market in China.
I’ve had dog before, but never cat.
This is pretty much the main reason why I have no desire to visit Asia. I would need extensive therapy if I ever witnessed such cruelty.
Anyway, when I was little (in the 70’s) there was an influx of “Boat People” from Vietnam to Canada. People here could “adopt a family” and teach them how to adapt to Canadian life. I have a faint memory of the family that my mom “adopted”. My dad says that one time they were at our house and our beloved 25lb family cat walked in the room - apparently the little girl’s eyes lit right up and she said “In Vietnam we EAT cats!” and my dad said “Well here in Canada we DON’T.”
And?
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And? Uh, it was not very good, though it was not served in a dish. If it was prepared in a dish with sauce, spice, and other things, it might be OK. We asked for it and he went to the back to get it. It was stringy and not great.
Black. Greasy. Does NOT taste like chicken, or like any other meat I’ve had.
A dog on Tahiti bit me and ran off, and the owner offered me a bucket of the mutt’s mother from the freezer. I’d heard that dogs can smell a dog-eater for years. Maybe it was just confirmation bias, but it seemed they all hated or feared me for a long time.
When I was a teenager in Northern Virginia, a local Chinese restaurant was rumored to use cat meat in its beef dishes. A reporter asked the owner, who denied it and then said exactly the wrong thing to the reporter: “Do you know how little meat there is in a cat?”
I teach English in South Korea. As part of a self-introduction lesson, I try to get the kids to say two good things about themselves, and give them a list of possible answers: “I think I am…” tall, smart, fast, pretty, kind to animals, etc. In four years, not one of these kids has chosen “kind to animals.” Dogs are sometimes eaten here, but AFAIK, not cats. Asia does not have a St. Francis of Assisi equivalent.