IF the cats come from legitimate farms and are NOT pets nor strays and are raised/killed humanely, what would the issue be? Would the issue simply be a conflict of cultural values? Naturally, Chinese farms are not humane, but I've seen pigs and chickens in worse conditions and killed in worse manners than farmed cats and dogs. Why isn't anybody fighting for those animals? Just some questions.

I do think the primary issue here is that Western culture abhors the consumption of traditionally "higher-level" animals, animals with larger cognitive capacities like cats and dogs vs. chickens. But it's a difficult thing to gauge when so much of our beliefs regarding these issues are socially and culturally based.