Students eat cat, kicked off Facebook

Thanks for the added info on that photo. Whew!
For a moment...
This story is an excellent example of how even the best intentions can backfire.

These guys should really learn to read the Terms of Service (TOS) that they sign when registering for Facebook, or any other site. A lot of them say you are not allowed to post things that are obscene, violent, illegal, graphic or lewd in nature, or show the harm of human or animals. Mainly umbrella terms that ensure the images and texts are suitable for all their community.
I hope they will think of a different way to get their message across.

I looked at the pictures, they were gruesome. Hereby, I do not suggest searching for the pictures online like I did. You may regret it.

But...
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well it does raise the question of which animals is it ok to eat. in some places it is ok to eat cats. domestic cats are not endangered anywhere that i know of.


if you censor them eating cat, why can't you censor someone eating pig or horse or bat?

I guess it depends on how it was presented, if it was for shock value like that then a cow, chicken, pig, lamb etc. would've been taken off as well.

While it is unnecessary to kill any animal for food and while I am fully aware of Facebook's right to ban them on their terms of use violations, this incident does bring up an interesting point.

The same people who kicked them off Facebook most likely eat cows, chickens, and other animals, all of whom were abused their entire life and killed in some of the most horrific ways imaginable just so they could end up as a burger or a chicken nugget for someone who could have just as easily eaten something else.

While I certainly don't condone the student's killing, cooking, and eating of this cat, it raises the question: why is it considered perfectly alright to pay for and, thereby, participate in the abuse of certain animals (cows, pigs, chickens, etc.), but not others?

It's a crime when someone forces a dog to fight, but it's fine when someone pays for and consumes the abuse of a cow.

It was probably taken because you can see the raw cat skinned on a platter and the cut paws in the sink. if they just showed the skinned cat without the head of paws it could have been chicken. I don't think is cruel to eat a cat or any other animal, i think it is just not globally accepted because of it being a pet.
I like deer, frog, wild boar, shark, goat, cow, chicken, fish, snake, and these are just a few things that i have tried; not counting the insects hehe..

Mixed feelings on this one.

what the fuck? just because you dont like some thing dosent mean you eat a cat

Wow, way to defeat the purpose guys. Score one for the idiots.

Wow, those pictures were disturbing...

I have to agree with what some people said above; if it were a cow, a pig, or a chicken, I'm sure it would be shocking but because of the stigma around eating a domesticated animal it is that much more disturbing.

But really, what is adding the pain and suffering of an innocent animal going to do to help the cause? Make a statement, sure. Stop the slaughtering of other animals...doubt it.

Current would actually put this on tv?

I recently returned from those places in the world where eating "domesticated" animals is accepted, but it never seemed that people advertised the eating of these animals (mostly dogs). i believe that this has more to do with socio-economic issues rather than taste or texture. I never tried dog, but close friends who did said it was awful, cold and very grisly. anyway, i agree with databaze about acceptance, and i've tried frog, bat, bugs, etc. and they were all really good. it's all about where you live and how you survive there.

i just saw the photos.
i don't really have words, im just really horrified.
but i really don't think this is worse than the typical slaughter of animals for food purposes.
im saying this, of course, as a vegetarian.
i just really don't understand the point they were trying to make. this was supposed to be an ANTI- animal cruelty protest!? what!?

well thats one way to control the pet population, but i dont think thats what bob had in mind

Hypocrites. Trying to protest for animal rights by eating cats. Somehow I don't understand how that works out. So if I'm missing something, let me know.

what in fucking hell.. ?

i like that pic of the bloke in the apron holding a glass of chianti - it's civilized .

I was wondering about that picture too... :)

Since we think of cats as pets (or family in my case) I do not want to see this.

I thought everyone thought of them that way. I couldn't even imagine seeing that...

not gonna like this boys and girls but it was outstanding (the pics of course) There is something to be said about shock value to make your point. We are all smart enough to know that there are different cuisines all over our world. My thinkin is that you woulda freaked no matter what type of animal it would have been, being they prepared it from scratch and in such detail.... You know, in Korea I had some KA GO GEE..and I still play with my dog, Q. Maybe somethings wrong with me?

He does make a good argument, but the whole let's-eat-a-cat-to-change-everybody's-mind thing didn't work out so well.

We must seem disgusting to Indians, eating the sacred cow and all. We see our meet packaged nicely and stocked beautifully on the shelves in the grocery stores and think nothing of the fact that it was once alive, farmed, killed and mutilated just so we can stuff our faces. If you've ever seen a sink full of chicken feet and heads, you'd realize, it's all nasty.

As a vegetarian, I couldn't agree more with them...they just picked a terrible way to protest. They should have faked the video then pointed to everyone crying out as hypocrits.

Poor cat...

i wonder if they want mine...


sick joke sory, this is very wrong

I don't see the sense at all in what they did. You try to protect life by not eating something once alive yet you eat something once alive to say you shouldn't eat anything alive? I mean I get what their aim is but way off the mark getting there.

As fucked up as this, the point is very clear. Why is it gruesome and nasty to do this with a cat and yet when people do this is a chicken, a pig or a cow its tasty? Why is this illegal and immoral and the other is legal, socially acceptable and absurdly common? There is absolutely no difference.

A great point there Ronen, the only difference lies in that some we have domesticated, others we haven't.

If we'd domesticated cows and pigs then things would be different I'm sure. But just think, if we had domesticated pigs, there'd be no bacon. :-o

pigs can be just as cute as a dog or cat. In the end we're all pretty much just meat and meat byproducts.

always trouble when you eat a...

i'd better not.

I like how people start getting all Philosophical about eating animals. How uninteresting.

People are always going to eat animals no matter what the animal is. But you must remember where you are. If you went to India and you filmed yourself killing and skinning a cow i don't think people would respect you for doing that since they value cows.

The same where people value cats as a pet. If you pick one, skin it and such and expect to be understood then you're not really understanding where you are and who'll be seeing it.

there are ways to kill animals and be kind to them in the process. Stating that one shouldn't eat animals is dumb because guess what Lions eat animals, are we going to regulate them?

Random Research note....they did a study on yawning and those who ate meat yawned (animals) and the animals that ate plants didn't yawn. So if you yawn you're a meat eater in denial if you aren't eating meat.

I'm a vegetarian myself but think it is perfectly acceptable to eat meat. I don't think though I am so open to the idea of eating a cat, unless of course you were starving to death.

I'm wondering did they kill the cat before they ate it? Also do you think as many people would still eat meat if they had to kill it first, I mean we all did at one point but how about in todays supposedly civil society?

It looks pretty much like deboning and cooking a rabbit. I hope this cat was shot by a farmer as they say. It would be too much of a contradiction if those students wanted to draw attention to how pigs are treated and then kill a cat in such a horrible way. Anyway, i'm a big cat lovers, but i do understand the point they're making. I just think things won't change, you could say "it is in our genes" to eat an animal rather than another.

Umm are they human ? Can't find any meat apart from a cat ?