There are many good toughts in all these posts!
First of all, I'd like to make clear again that it isn't the fact that the Chinese are eating the cats (because I don't want to rank animals hierarchally), it's more the way they are treated and tortured. This is what I find more than disgusting, it just shouldn't happen!
BTW, if I'd known about this petition page earlier I would have also started one against the killing of 40.000 cows in Germany this year during the BSE-crisis.

There was a post about where to draw the line when you're vegetarian and I know this dilemma very well. Personally I have the policy to abstain from animal products as far as my health isn't endangered. This means that I don't eat meat and fish, but eggs and milk (because I think pure veganism isn't very good). I'm not buying leather products - except shoes (you can't do without leather shoes in a rainy country like Germany). When I know that a company produces cosmetics without animal testing, I'm buying their products. I'm making a few exceptions: When I'm buying medicine, I know that it's animal tested , I'm also buying products containing gelatine. And of course I'm buying cat food for Luna!

However, I know that this subject might be very controversal and I thought about it before I started the petition, but I felt it would have been wrong not to do so...

BTW, I've also signed the petition about the St. Bernhard dogs...

Kirsten

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