Eating pets

[Viola]

Won't work. Assuming you're all right with the idea, cats' digestive tracts are nowhere near efficient enough and can't reproduce fast enough.

Viola
P.S. Ewwwwwww.lol

 

[Feraud]

hmm, no vegetarians around huh?

 

[Curt Chiarelli]

As in all things - let the market decide!

You know there is a perfect business that is yet to be founded. It's called the Cat-Rat Business. You get two cats - one male, one female. You get two rats - one male, one female. You start breeding.

You feed the rats to the cats. You skin the cats and feed their remains to the rats. You continue to raise rats that feed on cats and raise cats that feed on rats. Your inventory of cat pelts increases exponentially.

The only problem with this simple and efficient business is - there is NO market for cat pelts! (Yet!)

Whether it's Emu or Nutria - or Cow's and Horses, it's the "Invisible Hand" of the market that decides success or failure.

As in all things in a Free society - let the market decide what's for dinner.

-dixon cannon

Spoken like a true advocate of the Classical School! lol

 

[carebear]

As in all things in a Free society - let the market decide what's for dinner.

-dixon cannon

Spoken like a true advocate of the Classical School! lol

There is no economist but Adam Smith, and Milton Friedman is his prophet.

 

[Fletch]

In defense of kitty

...the more useless a cat is the more he has earned his right to companionship. There are enough people “trying to make themselves useful” in this world without the added competition of cats. And those who care most for the cat certainly never think of him as a mouser or a snaker. A writer in “The Nation” has it: “To respect the cat is the beginning of the aesthetic sense. At a stage of culture when utility governs all of its judgments, mankind prefers the dog”;*47*and a distinguished scholar at Oxford avowed to believe that men admired cats or dogs according as to whether they were Platonists or Aristotelians: “The visionary chooses a cat; the man of concrete a dog. Hamlet must have kept a cat. Platonists, or cat-lovers, include sailors, painters, poets, and pick-pockets. Aristotelians, or dog-lovers, include soldiers, foot-ball players, and burglars.” Champfleury’s dictum is that “refined and delicate natures understand the cat. Women, poets, and artists hold it in great esteem, for they recognize the exquisite delicacy of its nervous system; indeed, only coarse natures fail to discern the natural distinction of the animal.”

He stays where he likes to stay; he goes where he wants to go. He gives his affection where it pleases him to give it (when, also, it might be added) and he withholds it from those whom he deems unworthy of it. In other words with a cat you stand on much the same footing that you stand with a fine and dignified friend; if you forfeit his respect and confidence the relationship suffers. The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must.

We have much to learn from the cat, we men who prefer to follow the slavish habits of the dog or the ox or the horse. If men and women would become more feline, indeed, I think it would prove the salvation of the human race. Certainly it would end war, for cats will not fight for an ideal in the mass, having no faith in mass ideals, although a single cat will fight to the death for his own ideals, his freedom of speech and expression. The dog and the horse, on the other hand, perpetuate war, by group thinking, group acting, and serve further to encourage popular belief in that monstrous panacea, universal brotherhood.

 

[carebear]

hmm, no vegetarians around huh?

There are no vegetarians in true starvation scenarios. Like most herbivores, they quickly become prey.

 

[Curt Chiarelli]

There are no vegetarians in true starvation scenarios. Like most herbivores, they quickly become prey.

And like Smith, Darwin is another exponent of lucidity and truth, each bookending the other quite nicely. When I hear vegetarians denouncing my omnivorous feeding habits as "unnatural" and "cruel" I inconveniently remind them of the fact that we would not have developed the brain case size we presently have that permitted us to invent a sophisticated food supply system that supports their wish to be vegetarians without an evolutionary change in our ancient ancestor's diet that expanded to include animal protein.

Also, we were preyed upon by other species for a couple million years before we became the dominant lifeform on this planet. Now the tables have turned. Turnabout is fair play!

 

[Fletch]

There are no vegetarians in true starvation scenarios.

Maybe not. But why force a true starvation scenario?

I eat critters, but I think people pick on veggies too much.

 

[jake_fink]

hmm, no vegetarians around huh?

I am. But I said I'd make an exception for cats. Which was just me being droll. I don't eat chickens and they are the living embodiment of the dirty eye.

Can you make hat felt out of cat hair?

 

[carebear]

Can you make hat felt out of cat hair?

Sure, but you couldn't wear it in the rain, around other hats, or anywhere else it didn't want to go. lol

 

[Fletch]

Look, Hungarians - an over-civilized people if ever there was one - cooked their cats and dogs during the starvation years during and after WW2. People, even effete people, can be pretty damn resilient when they need to be. I just don't see the point in judging them by how they act when they don't need to be.

 

[Tourbillion]

Can you make hat felt out of cat hair?

I don't see why not, I am saving my cat's fur for some future project. I guess I could spin it, or felt it.

My dad had a friend who was part of the French resistance in WWII who once ate cat meat when there wasn't anything else, she said it was horrible.

Horse meat was available in the markets in Los Angeles up until the 1950's according to my mom. It too was horrible.

As for eating pets, well, it isn't practical. No way am I eating something that expensive. A good size purebred dog is upwards of $800. They probably don't even taste good.

Pet birds, like doves, pigeons they're edible. Still, it is a lot of work for one little meal.

Stick to commercially raised livestock folks. Okay?

 

[Elaina]

Well, I love broccoli, bur since I found out it could feel pain I tend to tell it "I'm going to eat you. Yum."

Seriously, I cut way back on my broccoli, just like I do my meat, until they can make humane broccoli.

 

[Fletch]

Stick to commercially raised livestock folks. Okay?

But how, then, are we to prove our fitness to survive under a New World Order?

 

[Tourbillion]

But how, then, are we to prove our fitness to survive under a New World Order?

Huh? I thought you were supposed to make a lot of money to survive under the new world order?

Eating bugs, snakes and stuff that is so old world order.

 

[Fletch]

The corporate elite is a myth. There is only the cultural elite. They're the ones who need to be taught to eat Rover. lol

 

[jake_fink]

Eating bugs, snakes and stuff that is so old world order.

lol lol lol

 

[Benny Holiday]

Can you make hat felt out of cat hair?

I don't think so, but you could make a swell Daniel Boone cap if the cat's got a furry enough tail! lol

 

[Haversack]

In regards to the question about the quality of cat fur, I need to check my references but if I am remembering correctly, during the late Medieval-early Renaissance in Northern Europe, under various sumptuary laws, cat fur was considered a middle class fur and was superior in its durability to rabbit fur.

And cat fur and dog fur are used today under a variety of trade names. The EU is in fact in the process of instituting a ban on the import and sale of said fur. The majority of which comes from China. Here's the URL to this story:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6165786.stm

On another facet about the eating of small animals such as pigeon, guinea pig, and chihuahua: You have to remember in a day without refrigeration, a small animal provided just enough meat for one meal a family without any leftovers. Additionally, the smaller animals tend to reproduce faster thus ensuring a steady supply and also can be fed on scraps. Large animals were more efficient when there were either large numbers of people to feed all at once or if there were the means to preserve the meat on a large scale. (salting, smoking, drying, canning).

Haversack.

 

[carebear]

I don't think so, but you could make a swell Daniel Boone cap if the cat's got a furry enough tail! lol

Like this one?

(no pets were harmed in the making of this cap)