Talk:Cat meat

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Contents 1 Merge proposal 2 Taste and texture 3 Nutrition Facts 4 Source 5 Neutrility 6 It's .fr not .cn ?

[edit] Merge proposal

• Oppose merge with Cat. There are pages for beef, pork, and so on, and this topic (especially the current controversy about eating cat meat) would not necessarily fit well in the cat article. Badagnani 04:14, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
• Oppose per above; there is an aritcle with dog meat, why not cat meat -ScotchMB 15:38, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
• Oppose. Reading about cat meat in an article about cats can be very distressing. 202.156.6.54 15:09, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment I'm taking it that this is a dead debate, but whether it's distressing or not is irrelevant (Wikipedia is not censored), but I don't think that all of this information is relevant enough to the topic as a whole be included in the main cat article.--h i s s p a c e r e s e a r c h 22:19, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
• Oppose. There are articles on dog and horse meat so why not cat meat? Also combining with the Cat topic is just asking for trouble; it will distress people who see their cats as pets not food, and they will react by trying to remove this material. TaffyDownUnder (talk) 12:32, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Taste and texture

How does it taste and what's its texture like? I've heard said that cat meat has problems in that area and that is why it is not eaten even as widely as dog is, but is this simply a myth? 82.103.215.236 22:46, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Does that even matter? If you can't kill animals freely, this is an issue of animal rights. Same with 'dog meat'. 207.210.16.76 06:17, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

It's a fair question. Badagnani 06:44, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

It's good, can be stringy unless cut across the grain. Vaguely tastes like pork, but gamier, almost 'livery'. If some people had their way this would be the PETAcyclopedia.Sukiari (talk) 01:09, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

It's not so much to do with "PETAcyclopedia" as it is to do with the fact the general way to kill this animal for meat is to boil it alive. Keep living the dream though, Sukiari. Razstar (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 05:25, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

 :( Yeah, that sort of thing came accross in the tone of the article. I'm gonna tag it for a rewrite to fix the article's tone. It practically screams "THIS IS BAD DO NOT EVER DO IT!!!!!!". yick. Use Neutral tense peoples.....--Marhawkman (talk) 07:53, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

This is a Wikipedia talk page, not a discussion forum. Please keep commentary related to the article. ⇒SWATJester ^{Son of the Defender} 11:24, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Nutrition Facts

The article on dog meat has nutrition facts, why not this one?SayUnclePal (talk) 20:42, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

I agree. Where are the nutritional facts? This seems like a very deliberate case of animal discrimination. Rearete (talk) 20:46, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Source

Australians cook up wild cat stew 84.64.14.109 12:03, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Wild Cat is pot luck for hunters and collectors TaffyDownUnder (talk) 12:27, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Australian recipes for cat TaffyDownUnder (talk) 12:27, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

How to eat cats TaffyDownUnder (talk) 12:27, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Neutrility

I don't see a lack of neutrality, if someone find sources for pro-eating cat it might balance it out, otherwise I'm taking it off. Its nice when people actually add this stuff in. And you people talking about what it tastes like, shut up, unless your a food reviewer and you reviewed cat or something and published that review so it became a source, your opinion doesn't matter and normal people don't want to talk about or think about their pet being eaten. And for you idiots who think its immoral or something, I think its immoral to treat cats better than cows just because I like them more, we don't treat any animals very nicely. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.137.207.191 (talk) 11:19, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] It's .fr not .cn ?

Are your sure about China? Here in Central Europe people usually think it is the FRENCH who devour cats (as well as snails). People here think of chinese as the "dog-eaters", considering all three said activities extremely disgusting. 82.131.210.162 (talk) 11:48, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

In fact the french equivalent of the english "quick lazy brown fox jumps over fence" test sentence is about best eating cat meat when hot, not cold. See here:

http://www.johannes-eva.net/images/2008_05_27_redoffice_review/2008%2005%20-%20RedOffice%20-%20Screenshot%208%20Format%20Templates.png —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.131.210.162 (talk) 08:24, 3 June 2008 (UTC)