Periodically on the network, you can stumble upon materials that in the Switzerland located in the heart of Europe, they systematically eat rather exotic meat - cat. We checked if it was true.
Here's what the channel reports "NTV": “In civilized and prosperous Switzerland, dishes from cats are still served in memory of hungry times for hungry times. The chef Morits Bruno from Switzerland for a long time describes the taste, as he says, of delicate cat meat. And he does not see anything wrong with that.
According to the local zoo protection organization, in Switzerland 3% of the population, that is, about 250,000 people, periodically practice something similar. Attempts by activists to legally prohibit the eating of cats have ended in failures for several years. ”
Website Bigpikcha.ru Clarifies that we are talking about 200 kg of meat consumed per year. And here is the resource "Fakrum", not denying the Swiss love for the cat, it focuses on the dog - supposedly it regularly eats 3% of the country's population. Some resources They saythat 3% are both types of meat combined.
The debates on the topic of unusual culinary preferences in Switzerland have a long history. For example, in 2013, the authoritative Zurich newspaper Tages-ANzeiger Published A polemic article on how much the moral consumption of cats of cats and dogs corresponds to. The newspaper also brought quotes from several interviews, the participants of which admitted that sometimes they are happy to prepare a dog or meat from a cat. “There is nothing strange to eat a dog. She has the same taste as any other meat, and in any case no one knows what he eats, ”another newspaper quotes, Le Matin, one of the Swiss farmers.
However, there is not only evidence in this matter, but also steps in the legal field. Indeed, the Swiss zoo defenders periodically make up petitions with an appeal to the government to prohibit people to eat pets meat. In 1993, a similar undertaking Collected 6000 signatures were sent to Bern to the federal authorities. However, the Switzerland parliament came to the conclusion that the culinary habits of people should not be regulated by special laws. Nevertheless, in many regions of Switzerland, they then introduced a ban on the official sale of cats of cats and dogs in green shops and in restaurants.
In 2013 and 2014, such petitions have already collected 7000 And 16,000 Signatures, respectively, are scanty numbers for 8 million Switzerland. Perhaps it is precisely because of this to this day in Switzerland there is no law that would prohibit cooking and eating its own cat or dog. It is possible to hold accountable for the murder of your animal in Switzerland only if it was committed in a cruel way. According to information The Swiss Veterinary and Food Safety Directorate, the sale of cats and dogs is prohibited, but eating their own animals does not contradict the law.
There are other facts indirectly proving that the above problem exists in Switzerland. So, According to data Schweizerische Tiermeldezentrale Swiss Center, every year in Switzerland disappears from 10,000 to 20,000 pets, 80% of them are cats.
Also, it is impossible to completely refute the statistics of the popularity in Switzerland of meat from cats and dogs that some Russian sites refer to. After all, it can be found on authoritative resources (for example, BBC), and one of the primary sources of the data is the founder and president of the local animal protection group Sos Chats Noiraigue Tomi Tomek. Indeed, according to her, about 3% of the Swiss are secretly carried away by such dishes. She confirms that the cat is included in the traditional Christmas menu of some areas of Switzerland, and even calls specific cantons: alfalfa, appencell, Yura and Bern. Dog meat, according to her, goes mainly for the manufacture of sausages and fatty agents from rheumatism. In addition, from the fat of these animals here they make a popular ointment from rheumatism. In the 2010s, the efforts of the organization managed to achieve the ban on the sale of cat skins. Information about 250,000 Swiss, periodically feeding on cats or dogs, also leads The Times. However, since in the official statistics There is no consumption of meat in Switzerland in cats or dogcaps, we can only state the main fact: yes, in Switzerland, meat from both species of animals uses a certain, albeit not measured accurately, popularity.
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