Got this from a friend abroad, and i thought i should share!!!
A YOUNG woman has ended up at the centre of a heated debate in China after she posted images of herself cooking a cat to make soup.
China officially frowns on the process of eating cats but it is estimated around four million of the animals are eaten in the country each year.
In 2012, legislation was drafted to make the eating of cats and dogs illegal with jail sentences of up to 15 days for offenders.
But privately, officials admit the number of cats being eaten is rising each year and the matter has been quietly ignored.
The woman has now sparked a national debate after posting her culinary creation on Chinese social media.
The images were posted on Li Jinbang's own page on the Chinese version of Twitter called weibo, and quickly went viral before she deleted them.
Initially the girl had written simply: "Hey look, I managed to catch a tiger and ate it."
She then posted snaps saying how she had boiled the cat before stripping off the fur and cutting it into pieces for the soup.
The 21-year-old was bombarded with emails, including hate messages.
She later tried to defend herself by saying that the cat, which appeared perfectly healthy in other photos, had actually been injured in a car accident and she was doing it a favour by putting it out of its misery.
Li said: "It was a perfectly lawful killing and I killed the cat and ate it without doing anything illegal."
The woman lives in the Guangdong province, in southeast China, which is famous for its exotic eating habits.
By contrast, most people in northern China regard the practice of killing and eating cats as unacceptable.
Overseas visitors to China rarely come across cooked cat, as it is mainly the fringe areas in cities and rural areas where it seems to be popular.
Most parts of the cat seem to be suitable, although the head is something which is rarely used.
Cat meat is also used in the traditional "dragon, tiger, phoenix" dish where the dragon is snake meat, the tiger is cat and the Phoenix chicken. It is especially popular as a dish for cleansing the body.
Did i just hear "Animal rights", not in china. This is quite shameful, if this had been done in Africa, the whole world would have screamed "Crucify"!!!!
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