While animal lovers in Beijing protested the killing of cats for food on Thursday, a butcher in Guangdong province — where felines are the main ingredient in a famous soup — just shrugged her shoulders and wielded her cleaver. `Cats have a strong flavor. Dogs taste much better, but if you really want cat meat, I can have it delivered by tomorrow,` said the butcher, who gave only her surname, Huang.
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Image: A cat stretches its paw for food after being rescued by China Small Animal Protection Association from a Tianjin market that trade cats for meat and fur, in Beijing, on Sunday, February 11, 2007. A southern Chinese province must stop the `shameful` and `cruel slaughter` of cats for food, a group of more than 40 animal lovers in Beijing said on Thursday, December 18, 2008, as they unfurled banners in a tearful protest. Thousands of cats across the country, including at least 5,000 from one province, have been caught in the past week by traders and transported to Guangdong province to be killed for food, said the protesters gathered at the Guangdong government`s office in Beijing.
