Isn't dog supposed to be a specialty in China? And don't forget "roof
rabbits". I don't eat them, just sayin'.

There are some cultures that practiced cannibalism until very recently,
the Fore people in New Guinea come to mind. They stopped because it was
the cause of the spongiform encephalitis disease kuru. AIDS crossed the
species barrier because Africans hunt apes and monkeys for food. Eating
any closely related species is a very bad idea as is eating carnivores and
scavengers. The only reason to do it is when the alternative is
starvation. China has a long history of famine so they do eat cats and
dogs, it doesn't make make it a good idea. In fact there was widespread
cannibalism in China during the Great Leap Forward when Mao starved 50
million people to death and there must have been cannibalism in the
Ukraine when Stalin deliberately starved 7 million people to death. Under
those circumstances the first thing you eat are the horses, then the rats,
then cats and dogs and finally people. This thread started about using cat
poop as fertilizer. Very very poor people use whatever they have on hand
including human waste, they do that because the alternative is starvation.
That doesn't make it a good idea for anyone who isn't living in a
desperately poor third world village. Rich westerners with their suburban
gardens should stick to manure from cows, horses (the French eat them even
if Americans don't), sheep and chickens.