[manaboutown]

I guess they can still eat bats, rats and who knows what else in China. It might be wise to shut down their wet markets. I visited one once when I was there. Various cuts of raw mystery meat were hanging from the ceiling in the open air inside a carport-like shelter. Every piece of it was literally covered with flies.

Perhaps there were no laws against eating dog and cat meat in the US because they were not necessary as it was not happening. Then over the past few years Chinese and other resident aliens who were arriving here wanted a 'taste of back home'. I know when groups of Vietnamese first settled here family pets in their neighborhoods did disappear, perhaps to appear on their dinner plates. Squirrels disappeared from parks, too. Disclosure: Two of my physicians are Vietnamese. One of the most prolific inventors I have ever done work for is Vietnamese. I have bought duck liver from a Vietnamese market in the OC to make foie gras. Many wealthy Chinese have bought multimillion dollar properties where I used to live in Orange County, CA and I love Chinese food!

I have enjoyed horse meat, frog legs and escargot (snails) in France, Minke, a small unendangered whale, and seal meat in Norway, grasshoppers covered in chile pepper in Mexico, menudo (tripe soup), chicharrones and rattlesnake meat in New Mexico and mountain oysters at the Testicle Festival near Clinton Montana - and have the T-shirt. I also enjoy Andrew Zimmern's show where he eats just about anything. Yet somehow eating pets such as dogs and cats...no thanks!