Letters to the Editor
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this article is mostly wrong
First of all, did you ever see a cat being served at a restaurant in China? I have lived here in China for 6 years and never saw that. I hear in some places in Canton Province people eat cats. But I never saw this.
Dog meat in China is considered a niche delicacy. It is normally only eaten in the Winter time. Most people I have talked with do not eat it at all, or have eaten dog meat once every few years. It is, at most, a once a year meal for most people here, if that.
FYI, the majority of chicken Chinese people eat is free-range. The majority of beef Chinese people eat comes from working-animals...not herded cows. Since Chinese people eat organ-meats, as well as bone and cartilage, they value more of the animal that they kill. Unfortunatly, a lot of the lamb and pork is "free-range" too, which means that the animals eat a lot of crap (literally) and garbage.
Personally, the China animal cruelty story should be about city-people who keep big dogs as pets, locked up in their small appartments.
The majority of city-dwellers in China have enough common sense to differentiate a food animal and a pet animal. They are also very aware that Westerners do not eat dogs. The majority of Chinese people themselves do not eat dogs at all. Therefore, I think the the coach of the ski team was being cruel...to you. If I was you, I would have punched him out..right then and there.