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[Kellan Meig'h]

Agreed. Hope he's permanently banned from television.

[tobi3B]

Over the line absolutly.
That is no joke for a cooking show

[Syrius]

Let me play devil's advocate here, just for rhetorical reasons. (I am no vegetarian, btw.)

How is it wrong to eat cat, but it isn't to eat chicken, fish, beef, veal, venison, shrimp, frog legs, hare, snake, turkey, caviar, snail, crab, buffalo, octopus, lobster, squid or ostrich?

I am not approving of what he did, but I don't see how that can be any worse than the slaughtering of the animals I listed above.

[Styx]

To answer with a question when was the last time you considered any of those other animals a loving companion?

[Syrius]

I had a pet chicken when I was 7. We did not eat it. She died (and this is no pun) because she tried to cross the road.

Guess what I had for lunch today? Chicken.

[Steven09]

Bleah! That's going overboard there!

I also hope he's gone from TV too.

[Syrius]

He didn't actually cook a cat. He only made a suggestion. Which was wrong of him. And in bad taste.

And a mistake.

Like the one I made when I asked non-chalantly about Agent Orange to an ex-soldier who fought in Vietnam. I was 19.

Or the many Bushisms we heard from W.

Or the reporter who said "Blow Job" when he was talking about J-lo's Block party.

Or the coworker who told today to a customer we don't grant extensions on payments for any reason, when we actually do in some instances.

Or me getting a 34-size pair of slacks, when I'm actually 36?

Just sayin'.

[RCraccoon]

im with Syrius on this one where its true in most countries that cats are considered pets it is simply a matter of opinion. like take gold for instance it has no real value except for the value we give it. people see eating animals like cats and dogs as taboo but its only because the human race has kept them in their homes since the beginning.
aside from that they are no different from any other animal. in fact in certain parts of asia cats and dogs are eaten quite frequently.

and to pass a law banning cats and dogs or any other animals from being eaten is absurd because it will only show those countries that the rest of the world is intolerant of other cultures. so while we are at it i think india should ban the rest of the world from eating beef and the jews should ban the world from eating pork. infact lets let the vegetarians ban the world from eating meat all together because the killing of animals just sooooo wrong! so enjoy your tofurkey sandwiches and tofu dogs cuz that what this world is coming to!

[anthony]

Don't forget horses...

Not everything on a horse goes to the glue factory.
Some of it is used in sausages, too.
(It's not 'tasty enough' or something, to be sold by itself)

Guineapigs?
A popular pet these days, but a meat animal to some indian tribes before.

Rabbits?
They're not that good pets, but they're tasty!

I wonder what hamsters taste like...

Frankly, the world should start using smaller meat animals more than it does.
Most of them give more meat/acre of greens than cattle and pigs.
And the size makes them much more easy to handle for anyone.
They also reproduce more often, with more offspring, so it's easier to 'ramp up' production.
(Don't expect a cow to give more than one calf/year.)

Back during WWII it was rare to live outside of town and not have some animals to slaughter for meat. Pigs were popular as they ate just about anything. Rabbits and chickens were a bit more finnicky eaters, but probably more popular because they needed less space. (That was in Europe. I have no idea what happened in America.)

[Hawke]

It's all really Opinion Based. Being raised in today's society, if cat were on a restaurant menu...would I eat it? No...But if I didn't have anything else to eat and it is life and death, I probably would.

I would much rather have the rappers who rap about their birthday sex and their next high off the air, than a guy who talked once about eating a cat....

Taboo is just another word for intolerance.

But this is all, once again, a matter of opinion.

[Teric]

I can understand different cultures eating different animals. But I've lived with cats for most of my life, and I just can't stand the thought of eating one.

[Vallus]

[mwalimu]

Putting it in perspective here (and assuming for the sake of argument that eating cat is reprehensible), if all he did was say something about cats and didn't actually do it on the show (did he say whether he'd done it at all?), then I don't see that as being any worse than a case where an announcer or host makes an overtly racist or inappropriate remark. Such incidents often result in a reprimand or suspension, and a demand for an apology, but as long as they prove to be isolated incidents and not part of a pattern, they don't usually turn out to be career-limiting in the long run.

[Syrius]

[CUDDLESMUCH]

from a stand point of the tv production and the "sensitive" veiwers i can understand how that could be offensive but from a culunary stand point he did not over step. i for one think cat is far to stringy