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Taiwan's parliament has approved a bill banning the slaughter of cats and dogs for human consumption. The bill also prohibits those using a car or motorbike from pulling their pets alongside them on a lead as they travel. Anyone caught breaching the order faces a large fine or up to two years in prison - and having their names and photographs made public.
The measures were introduced to improve the country's animal protection laws. The move on Tuesday is a landmark amendment to Taiwan's Animal Protection Act, and is the first of its kind in Asia.
Taiwan had already banned the sale of meat and fur from cats and dogs in 2001.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday April 13 2017, @05:27PM (4 children)
I've heard "dog meat is good to warm the body," and in the TCM sense what they mean by this is it "replenishes yang" and "circulates qi." In that same system, however, ginger and red jujubes boiled in water with a little rock sugar do just as well--and I'd know, this is one of my go-to recipes from October to April. Why use meat for that?
I'm not hypocritical enough to be upset over killing dogs or cats for meat while not being upset over killing, e.g., pigs and cows, which are likely more intelligent. But I've heard some places deliberately make the animals suffer.
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(Score: 2) by cmdrklarg on Thursday April 13 2017, @06:52PM
'm not hypocritical enough to be upset over killing dogs or cats for meat while not being upset over killing, e.g., pigs and cows, which are likely more intelligent.
I grew up on a farm that had all four of the aforementioned critters. Cows are almost certainly not smarter than cats or dogs. Pigs on the other hand are quite smart.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 13 2017, @07:38PM (2 children)
cats and dogs are way smarter than cows.
I would also guess that cats are smarter than pigs (and dogs), but I don't know about comparing dogs with pigs.
As an aside, the latest research says cats are just as smart as dogs: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-38665057. [bbc.com]
I think that's bullshit and I believe that cats are smarter than dogs, but I'll at least allow these people to voice their opinion...
(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday April 13 2017, @07:53PM
When you get past "smart" and into the nitty gritty, social intelligence is important. There's also problem solving, language.
This is supposedly the smartest dog:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaser_(dog) [wikipedia.org]
Here's something:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Intelligence_of_Dogs [wikipedia.org]
There is some criticism of the mirror test [wikipedia.org], which dogs fail.
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(Score: 2) by driverless on Friday April 14 2017, @10:23AM
cats and dogs are way smarter than cows.
You obviously haven't met my cat then. There are as yet undiscovered species of plants in the jungles of Borneo that could out-think my cat.