A Michael Broad Blog
NEWS/OPINION: You may have heard about the Vietnamese cat meat restaurant in Vietnam owned by Pham Quoc Doanh. I am pleased that the news media has picked up on his feelings about what he did over the years. It might shed some light on the cat meat culture of Vietnam. But there’s change afoot. …
There is a tweet on Twitter today which reminds me that in the huge dog meat market in Asia, mainly China, they believe that if they torture the dogs to death by beating them and in other horrible ways, they improve the taste of the “meat” that the dogs produce because of the adrenaline …
NEWS AND VIEWS – CHINA: An online furore is currently being played out on the Chinese social media website Weibo. It concerns the canteen at the Jiangxi Vocational Technical College of Industry Trade feeding their students duck neck/head when one student found the head of a rat in his meal among the rice. The …
NEWS AND COMMENT-SOUTH KOREA: the first lady of South Korea, Kim Keon-hee, has called for an and to dog meat consumption in her country. What about cat meat? Does the first lady suffer from speciesism? Does the First Lady think that it is acceptable to eat cat meat but not dog meat? I will …
NEWS AND COMMENT-SUMATRA: The cat’s name was Tayo. The name means “he who brings joy”. A Sumatran man living in Medan, Sumatra was known to eat domestic cats and he was also known to sell cat meat. His name is Rafeles Simanjuntak. Sonia Rizkika lived with Tayo. She adopted him from a rescue center. …
Cat and dog meat is on the political menu, thankfully. There is a tendency by some, and I am firmly in this category, to criticise some Asian countries for allowing the brutal and unregulated killing of cats and dogs as part of the cat and dog meat trade. It is believed that killing the …
She deliberately does several things to make her videos interesting or shocking depending upon your point of view. She juxtaposes her prettiness, her glossy red lips and delicate hands with the gruesome, dark, grilled remains of whole domestic cats, dog’s legs, snakes, frogs, turtles and any other wild animal she can get her hands …
NEWS AND VIEWS (OPINION): a school in Texas, USA is in the news because teachers set a quiz for some of their students which included a question about cat and dog meat. The teachers who set this multiple answer quiz have been placed on administrative leave until the matter has been investigated. You can …
