I asked a coworker who is anti-pet if he would like a pet made of meat. He replied, "They all are."

The cat looks ready to pounce on someone.

What does the bible say about eating cats? Kosher or not?

@2,

But it just loves Jackie Wilson.

Frankly, it's disrespectful, immoral, and those responsible are assholes.... like the little shits that pull the wings off of flies, or the pricks who raise 'fighting' cocks and dogs.

The animal(s) from which that cat-shaped beef was derived deserve dignity - it's not a fucking plaything.

Woohoo, good to see that Uwaji is taking their cat meat sales from under the counter to on the counter.

Cute? Bullshit. This kitty is meant to be KAAAWWWWWAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!

I took a picture of 2 Meat Mario Bros. down there about a year ago. the butchers are having fun, not disrespecting cows.

They usually have a pigs head wearing sunglasses right next to the meat sculpture.

@11,

Seems like a shame to break that thing up for a customer's purchase.

@6: salad is murder.

If you baked it at what internal temperature would it no longer be fuckable? C'mon you all were thinking the same thing. Oh just me? Never mind ....

If you'll eat pigs but are upset at the idea of eating cats or dogs, you're a hypocrite, and should reexamine your judgments.

Some of you think @6 is a PETA-fied vege-fied bleeding heart.

That, I am not. I eat meat. I wear leather. I accept that animals are farmed for service, for food, for material.

I also think the farmed animals' lives do not need to be entire agony; There *are* ethical ways to raise farm animals even if their destination is still an air-bolt/decapitation machine.

For example, I choose free-range and organic options when I can. Most of the lefties here probably do too.

And so, coming from that POV, I think 'meat cat' or 'mario meat' reflect something disgusting about their producers and audience. It's a callousness and indifference for the lives of the animals we farm.

Har-har-har the helpless steer has been terrified, slaughtered, ground-up with his buddies, and maybe his own calfs, and now it looks like a cartoon character!! Oh, har-har.

It's not funny; it's shitheaded, you asses.

@18: A couple (or couple and a half) things:

1) Steers don't have calves. The procedure which renders them steers renders that impossible.

2) There is a MASSIVE difference between the treatment of animals on factory farms and the sculpting of the already dead and ground carcass into a whimsical shape. That's not apples and oranges; it's apples and non-Newtonian physics.

2a) Callousness and indifference for the life of a farmed animal is letting some poor bovine die just to become McDonald's, not finding a little beauty in death through art.

@18
"Lighten up, Francis!"

Some of y'all would lose your shit at the pic of the meatloaf baby that was going around FB on Valentine's Day. And some of y'all would find it hilarious.

@18: It's waste that's offensive to me. If it gets et, who gives a shit what shape the meatballs are? I think there's a cultural thing going on here, too. One might assume that corpulent rednecks are hurrdurring in the back room about stupid stupid meat, but it's more likely the Japanese impulse to kawai-ify everything. I may be over-reaching here, but the place *is* called Uwajimaya.
NEKO GA KAWAI, motherfuckers.

@6/18: "those responsible are assholes.... like the little shits that pull the wings off of flies, or the pricks who raise 'fighting' cocks and dogs."

I eat meat and thus hold no such pretense, but your sanctimony is pretty revolting.

If you actually gave a shit about the "dignity of animals" you'd be following up on the quoted statement and wouldn't have them killed for you. What happens post-death does not reduce their "dignity" any more than a fancy plating or your carrying around the animals in fashionable clothing.

Get over yourself.

Seriously, worry more about their life than your concern for their ghost-feels and respect.

Would the fly worry more about having its wings torn off, or post-death being called rude things?

Here's a thoughtgame, have you or would you ever eat a turducken? Have you ever eaten a stuffed turkey? Is that not the same sort of monst'rous desecration of a corpse, Black Metal style?