In Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, there is such a scene in a special market, a bunch of cute cats are stuffed in tight cages, these cats are pressed one by one, and even it is difficult to turn around, each cat's expression is panicked, what will be waiting for them?
After a while, their "owner" came to the cage and beat the cage fiercely with a wooden stick, under the harsh sound and huge impact, these cats were extremely frightened, and each cat should be excited to put its hair up and tense its muscles!
The cat "owner" was very satisfied with this scene, so he carried the cage, came to a large sink, and pressed the cage cat into the water without hesitation, at this time the cat in the cage will struggle desperately, and a large number of bubbles will appear in the water, but it only takes a few minutes, and all this will calm down.
Then the "cat owner" takes out these drowned cats, plucks their hair, disembowes them, disposes them and puts them on the board or sends them to a restaurant.
This market is the local famous "cat meat market", such things are repeated every day, it is clear that these cute cats have become people's food, which is very puzzling, why do Vietnamese people think of pets as food?
The habit that breeds war
Cats in most people's impression, are in the image of pets, rarely eat cat meat, even in the mainland such a food country, only a small number of areas have the habit of eating cat meat, and with the development of the times this phenomenon has become less and less.
But in Vietnam, the situation seems to be the complete opposite, Vietnam currently eats about 4 million cats a year, and this number is growing year by year, and in some Vietnamese cities you can't even see stray cats, because the local stray cats have almost been hunted and killed, and they even need to be imported from abroad at a high price.
Being able to eat cats, animals with excellent reproductive ability, to almost extinction, shows the Vietnamese people's attachment to cat meat, and behind this persistence, there are two main reasons:
1. To "live"
In the early 60s and mid-70s of the last century, the United States unreasonably launched a war of aggression against Vietnam, and the already poor Vietnam became more difficult under the devastation of the war, and being able to eat became the greatest luxury of every Vietnamese people in times of war.
For a time, the Vietnamese mainland was starving, and those who survived would do everything they could to find food, and the bark in northern Vietnam was almost eaten.
In this special period, cats appeared in front of the Vietnamese, because cats are an extremely good hunter, wild survival is simply not a problem for cats, so in times of war, the number of stray cats in the wild is still a lot.
Although no one wants to eat it in normal times, but in special war times, this animal is definitely happier and more nutritious than the bark, so as a cat as a hunter, in the face of hungry humans, became prey, in that period the Vietnamese began to eat cat meat on a large scale.
In order to live, there is nothing wrong with the Vietnamese approach!
After a hard fight by the Vietnamese people, the war was over, all production resumed, and the number of poultry and livestock replacing cats began to increase, at which time the Vietnamese people should give up eating cat meat and choose animals that produce more meat.
But none of this happened, but in the nearly half a century after the end of the war, the Vietnamese custom of eating cats intensified, and even almost ate local cats to extinction, which is the second reason.
2. In order to "make up"
In Vietnam, cats have always been known as "little tigers", local people generally believe that cat meat has a great tonic effect, Vietnamese people believe that women eat cat meat can beauty and beauty, men eat cat meat can strengthen the body, and even achieve the purpose of aphrodisiac, even if this statement is completely unscientific, but it has also been trusted by most people in Vietnam.
Vietnamese people go farther and farther on the road of eating cat meat, and they also study various ways to eat cat meat, among which in order to eat tough and chewy cat meat, a special cat killing method has been developed.
As at the beginning of the article, the Vietnamese do not directly kill the cat, but first intimidate it, so that the frightened cat will secrete a lot of adrenaline, making the body tense, so that the killed cat will have more vigorous meat.
And in order to make the cat meat more tender, Vietnam will not choose knives, hammers, electric shocks and other traditional ways to slaughter, but used extremely cruel waterboarding to drown the cat alive, the cat's vitality is very tenacious, in the case of suffocation can often last 5-10 minutes, so that in the last cat life of these cats, they will be suffocated for up to 10 minutes!
In this way, every "big supplement" cat meat that is brought to the table is brutally tortured!
So now put aside these cruel processes and analyze from a scientific point of view, cats, as an animal, are they suitable for people to eat?
"Pets" ≠ "Food"
Obviously, cats are not suitable for food anywhere, for two main reasons.
1. Substitutability
Whether an animal will be used as an ingredient, mainly depends on the amount of meat produced by this animal and how it tastes, first of all, the amount of meat, cats are far less than common poultry and livestock produce more meat, in the same case of artificial breeding, cats are far less than pigs, cattle, sheep produce more meat, not as fast as chickens, ducks, geese.
Therefore, this animal is simply not suitable for food, and in the adult tens of thousands of years of human development, the animals that can be brought to the table are selected by predecessors, otherwise cats have long been raised as regular livestock on a large scale.
Speaking of taste, the description of cat meat in the "Compendium of Materia Medica" is like this, "sweet and sour and non-toxic", which proves that the taste of cat meat is not very good, on the other hand, China as a food country, all kinds of strange ingredients can be processed very well, but cat meat, only in some areas people eat, and the number of people who eat is also very small, can not reach the national universal.
Even Chinese chefs are reluctant to cook this meat, which proves that this meat is not very good and can be replaced by other meats.
And scientific analysis, the "big supplement" effect of cat meat is even more nonsense, from this point of view, the substitution of cat meat is very high.
2. Danger
In any country, there is no farm specializing in breeding meat cats, so don't think about whether cats have carried out relevant quarantine steps when they become cat meat, so that meat products that have not been quarantined are difficult to ensure their safety.
Although Vietnamese people like to eat cats, but they also do not have a special breeding farm for meat cats, most of the cats slaughtered, almost all stray cats and stolen domestic cats, especially stray cats, wandering around the garbage can all year round, the probability of carrying viruses and bacteria on the body or in the body is very high, and it is a certain threat to health if eaten.
In Vietnam, many people contract diseases every year from eating unclean cat meat, and in this regard, not eating cat meat is responsible for their own body.
Eat something and don't eat
Human beings, as the masters of the earth, can decide the life and death of any kind of animal, at the legal level, eating cats is not illegal, and on the moral level, as long as it is a meat eater, it is not qualified to accuse the cat eater.
However, most people in the world do not eat cats, and there must be a reason behind it, after all, humans have a fixed directory of animals used as carnivorous animals, and cats are not listed.
Even for your own health considerations, you should try not to eat cat meat, only in this way can you avoid your body from being infected by the germs brought by cats, and also reduce some cats that are abused!
Resources:
Shitang.com 《Is it actually popular to eat cat meat in Vietnam? At $50 to $70 a piece, it's still very popular, and some people feed themselves. What do you think? 》 2020-4-26
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