The law is messy in this area but in general it is legal for a person to kill their cat and eat him/her. Or it might be an unowned cat.
It is illegal for commercial enterprises (slaughter houses) to kill cats and dogs. But things are going to change I hear from the Bloomberg website. I can hear people thinking ‘and about time too!’
At present in the US some people do eat cat meat as they do in China and Vietnam. It is rare but it happens and it’s legal. Bloomberg says that it occurs among some immigrant groups. They probably mean Chinese or Vietnamese immigrants.
So, great news. It’s going to stop provided the law making process proceeds as intended. Violators on conviction can be fined and sent to prison for a year.
The Humane Society of the United States has been campaigning on this for a while.
The law will be introduced by an amendment to the existing Animal Welfare Act (I don’t have the date of this particular act, sorry). The amendment bans people from ‘knowingly slaughtering a dog or cat for human consumption’.
The proposer of the amendment is the Republican Representative Jeff Denham of California. California are debating banning cat declawing and 8 cities already ban declawing. They are into animal welfare and lead the country in this area of the law.
You know and I know that there is a very fine balance between the popularity of cats and dogs. The general consensus is that cats are today more popular than dogs by a small margin. So please don’t bandy around a whole pile of statistics. I know the statistics. I don’t need teaching about them.
What questions am I failing to answer? What do you mean by “Where do you draw the line and how do you define that line?”
Please remember that I’m reading your comments from database and not from the page itself so I am not looking at the entire thread. I do this because I have to work quickly. Just remind me and don’t insult me.
It’s more than about numbers. You know that as well. You are desperately trying to find an argument but it does not stack up. You cannot equate fish to domestic cats in this argument because it is much harder to interact with fish than it is with domestic cats.
As it is much harder to interact with fish they cannot be said to be on the same level in terms of bonding and companionship than is the case between humans and domestic cats. You are making a false argument and you always do this. I think you know you’re making a rubbish argument but you will do anything to denigrate the domestic cat and to have the domestic cat eradicated from the planet.
And you don’t recognise the fact that I think there are too many domestic cats and I think there are too many people who are irresponsible in terms of ownership of domestic cats. I have said this before in previous comments years ago.
I don’t defend the domestic cat blindly. I am critical of people such as breeders and irresponsible cat owners. I advocate cat confinement and in general I disagree with people who let their cats roam freely.
You fail to recognise this but they indicate that I am taking a very balanced view and and thoughtful about the domestic cat. I do not defend blindly as I said.
Cat’s Meow, you might get a response from this person. He is not the person you think he is. He is a cat hating troll in my opinion and he may start to insult you. I am just telling you to warn you.
Not likely. Food animals will never get complete legal pet status for too many reasons.
Sad that you are misinformed about the 4-H. They don’t raise pets. They raise food animals. The shows are for farmers wanting to improve their flocks/herds. Maybe you should be a little better informed before ranting?
Pigs, chickens, goats, horses, cows, and many others are deemed farm animals even though a few people have them as pets. Farm animals have been cultivated and harvested for food since the beginning of mankind. The same for fish. Except fish have to be a minimum size before it’s legal for consumption.
Cats and dogs were domesticated as working companions for people. Cats keep rodent populations down. Dogs help with herding, defense, hunting, etc. Eating them is the same as eating a member of your family or a fellow employee.
By your reasoning, by “number of owned pets” defining popularity, then people who keep aquariums full of dozens and dozens of fish (some by the hundreds) are defining the very most popular pet of all, by far.
Should we throw you in jail for a year and fine you $1,000 for each time you are found guilty of eating fishsticks or feeding fish to your cat? By your number of owned pets “popularity” reasoning as the justification, then yes, we should, even before people are thrown in prison for eating cats. You are guilty of murdering the most “popular” pet of all if you eat fish. Not many households with children have gone by that haven’t kept at least 1 goldfish at some time. And that’s not even counting how many hundreds of fish that individual pet-owners keep throughout their lifetimes. Fish are, with no contest, the most popular pet of all. Let’s throw all fish-eaters, and those who feed fish to their cats, in jail and throw away the key. Right? By your reasoning that is just and fair, even more fair than throwing cat-eaters in jail.