Officials in the Bay Area warn residents to keep their cats inside as their pets may no longer be safe roaming around their own neighborhood. With the number of missing cats rising, officials fear illegal activity may be to blame.
Its long been an overlooked eating habit of San Francisco's Chinatown, but the buying and selling of cat meat is now becoming a serious issue. The once foreign imported supply of meat being used in Chinese restaurants and homes is now almost entirely illegally grown within the city's limits.
With ever increasing shipping costs and highly inflated prices on Chinese grown cat, San Francisco's black market has quickly become the main provider of feline meat. Feeding the cats a wide range of highly fatty foods, such as fried pork and whipping cream, a single cat can weigh up to 80 lbs.
"Am I mad? You bet I'm mad! We're dealing with ghosts here. Our biggest problem is that the people growing these cats aren't centrally located. They don't have a cat farm, they aren't domesticating these cats and raising them in a controlled location like people cook meth... no," said Juan Carboneras, Director of San Francisco's Problematic Foods task force ", they're feeding everyday outdoor family cats, fattening them up and then abducting them and we're all eating them."
In an attempt to avoid detection, black market cat farmers are relying heavily on the population of outdoor family cats that roam neighborhoods through the greater Bay Area. By the time their owners even realize what has happened, its too late.
To date, San Francisco Animal Control reports 850 missing cats since April 2007. Cat meat on the black market sells for $9.00 per pound.
Black market farmer: Identity unknown, showing off a kidnapped cat.
6 comments:
Hey, dat rooka rike a good, taysee cat!! I rika eat him up! An dat rooka rike my bruddar wif da face blur out. He so crazy, he eat a big fat cat! Hey, why you no eat a cat?? You mekka me sad when you don't eat it :(
eeeeeep those cats are so fatty!
I once saw a platypus here in Idaho that was about that size and tried to hunt him, but I never thought about selling him off by the pound- could be pretty lucrative if you ask me...
the chinese dude with the blurred face is Xu Jirong, he's a notorious cat eater. haha JOKE, google him, then you'll know that that cat is his beloved pet. He feeds the cat "one steamed bread and half a bowl of chicken heart and some pork every day" and the cat has been with him for 9 years. Why would he even bother giving him that much food for 9 years if he wants to eat it. And no it's not Hansen and Gretel. If he really wanted to eat the cat he would have done it a lot sooner. So, if you wanna post a picture please be careful, you make that chinese dude as if he's some kind of cat-eating monster when in fact he's not.
I really hate what their doing to cats these days ,I might eat a squid or some other weird food but I would never eat a cat,trust me I have five cats and I wouldn't dare do something that wrong to any cat.:(
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