As I said in my last post, I am finding it difficult taking things seriously today. Must be the holidays or something. Here’s another less-than-important topic to discuss: feasting on felines.

As my wife’s family is from Liaoning Province (in the North), I feel compelled to decry the eating habits down South. To wit:

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 Thursday as they unfurled banners in a tearful protest.

Thousands of cats across the country 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.

‘We are very angry because the cats are being skinned and then cooked alive. We must make them correct this uncivilized behavior,’ said Wang Hongyao, who represented the group in submitting a letter to the Guangdong office.

On an even less serious note, how the hell do you skin a cat and cook it alive? The last time I tried to bathe one of my cats in slightly warm water, it was me who was almost skinned alive.

I am quite familiar with animal rights people in China, and particularly the cat crowd in Beijing. They do not screw around at all. If I was a government official with authority in this area, I would be scared. My advice to the Guangdong government: promote vegetarianism.