Yes, but cat meat is not fit to eat.

I haven't met anyone who eats cat meat, but cat meat is not really fit to eat.

Harm:

Many of the cats that are currently sent to restaurants are not livestock and poultry for breeding, but captured free-range domestic cats and stray cats, many of which are fed on leftovers, as well as raw fish, crabs and mice, so the percentage of infected parasites is quite high. For example, Schistosoma lungis and Toxoplasma gondii are not easy to kill even if the cat meat is cooked. Moreover, cats may also be infected with rabies, mad cow disease and hemorrhagic fever in rats.

Chinese epidemiology and social medicine expert and Anhui Medical University professor Zu Shuxian warned the public that eating cat meat may be harmful to health. According to Prof. Zu:?

First, eating cat meat is pure nonsense, there is no "lymphatic disease" in medicine, only lymphoma. And lymphoma is a malignant tumor, eat cat meat and cure tumor has nothing to do.

Secondly, animal meat may be contaminated with viruses, jeopardizing the health of those who eat it. Since cats are not meat food, there is no testing standard for cat meat, and its untested nature makes it difficult to ensure that it meets consumption standards.

Third, many infectious diseases suffered by cats can be transmitted to humans through eating cat meat, such as hemorrhagic fever, cat scratch fever, rabies, toxoplasmosis and other parasitic diseases.

According to media reports, there was a 45-year-old woman who loved to eat cat meat, so her neighbor gave her the mother of her newborn kittens, and the woman was so happy that she prepared to scald the cat to death in a knitting bag to eat it. The cat struggled desperately and then scratched the woman. The woman ate the cat within a few days and her tonsils became inflamed. The parotid gland was enlarged, fever, was sent to a hospital in Guangzhou. The doctor said she had "cat scratch disease", which is very rare. Of course, this disease can be cured. The newest addition to the list is a new one, which will be available in the near future.

Fourth, Swiss scientists have also found that cats have a form of feline spongiform encephalopathy, which is similar to mad cow disease, goat itch disease and a particular type of dementia in humans. These diseases have *** the same prions, all of which can be transmitted to humans, triggering an extremely serious degenerative disease of the central nervous system that eventually leads to dementia and death. The disease has now become an infectious disease that countries around the world are guarding against.

Cat meat quarantine and safety

Guangzhou Animal Disease Prevention and Supervision Institute of Fang said, "According to state regulations, any animal that enters a restaurant restaurant needs to go through a quarantine, like pigs, cows, and sheep are slaughtered by the designated slaughterhouses, the quarantine can be controlled. But small animals like cats, which are scattered and not slaughtered by designated slaughterhouses, are difficult to quarantine."

Usually, the most important quarantine items are rabies, followed by parasitic diseases and so on. Animal quarantine in addition to the appearance of the inspection, the most important inspection is in the slaughter process, that is, by observing its internal organs, lymph and other parts of the ulcers, tuberculosis, hemorrhagic spots, and so on, so as to determine whether there is a disease. If cats are slaughtered by individuals or restaurants on their own, even if there are quarantine officers in the city, they are busy with the quarantine of pigs, cattle and sheep, and it is difficult for them to be present to quarantine the cats. To take a step back, even if they come, they can only check occasionally, and it is impossible to quarantine one cat at a time.

Cats can never be centrally raised, and commercially available domestic cats and stray cats are either tempted to steal, or may be poisoned with poisons. Eating the meat of poisoned animals does not induce acute poisoning, but the toxins in the body accumulate when they are discharged, which is obviously detrimental to one's health.

"Xin'an Evening News" reporter in Anhui Province, Lu'an City, South Gate Farmers' Market, a store department to see the ground there are many to be sold "animal carcasses", is likely to be poisoned. Poisoned dogs and cats with highly toxic drugs. Recently, it is very common to steal dogs and cats in rural areas with highly toxic drugs, which are supplied to restaurants.

Cat Meat Eating and New Diseases

Cats are infected with Feline Immunodeficiency Virus (FIV), a virus that is in the same family as Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), which causes AIDS in people, and although FIV has not been found to infect people, there is no certainty to say that it must not.

In recent years, many new infections in people have been transmitted from eating animals. For example, the AIDS virus started out as a virus in orangutans, triggered by Africans eating orangutan (one says green monkey) meat. Professor Su Yixiang, chairman of the Guangdong Provincial Nutrition Society and professor at the School of Public **** Health, Sun Yat-sen University School of Medicine, pointed out, "It is very unsafe to eat cats, and people had better not hunt for cats to eat."

Which people can not eat cat meat, cat meat precautions:

1, who can not eat cat meat

Cat meat help wet hair poison, there is a dampness of toxicity, people avoid; chronic eczema skin disease should be appropriate to avoid eating; in addition to the cat meat has the disadvantage of injuring the fetus, so pregnant women should not serve.

2, cat meat for people

Suitable for general consumption. Suitable for weak people, rheumatic paralysis, cervical lymph nodes broken, thrombocytopenic purpura consumption.

3, cat meat taboos

Cat meat dietary taboos is not eaten with quinoa.

Cat meat can be eaten, but not a lot of food, especially cold people, if necessary, should be eaten under the guidance of a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner.

Cat meat should be from healthy sources and cooked well. Stray cats and stray cats, which are fed with leftovers, raw fish, crabs and mice, have a high rate of parasites, such as Schistosoma, Toxoplasma, etc., and can easily cause illnesses, such as food poisoning, if consumed.