Meet Maggie Beer, a “culinary icon” from Australia who was convinced to teach cooks at some sort of community kitchen on the promise that another chef would kill a feral cat to make her a “pussycat sandwich.”
Beer was invited to help instruct cooks who volunteer for a program feeding Australian seniors. In return, one of the cooks would show her how to prepare domestic cat meat.
Note that this was reported by a major Australian media outlet as a quirky culinary story, just a bit of fun to have a laugh over.
That goes a long way to explaining the state of mind in a country that recently killed millions of cats by poisoning them and has pledged to exterminate all free-roaming cats because self-styled conservationists believe felines — not habitat destruction, mass industrialization, the widespread use of carcinogenic pesticides, windmills, glass buildings and all the other changes wrought by human presence — are the primary drivers of local bird and small mammal extinction.
“We were talking a lot about cooking kangaroo tails and then I also told her about how one of our directors… had recently cooked us a feral cat from Kiwirrkurra,” said Sarah Brown, the CEO of Purple House, which prepares meals for Australian seniors.
“She got very excited about this and I said, ‘Well if you come to Alice Springs and do some cooking classes with us, then Bobby West will teach you how to cook a pussycat and you can have a pussycat sandwich for lunch.'”
Feeding seniors intelligent companion animals is about giving them “joy as well as sustenance,” Brown claims.
Thankfully not everyone in Australia thinks this is amusing, nor do they buy the claims that slaughtering cats will magically solve all the problems facing indigenous wildlife.
Pain In The Bud 
THESE PEOPLE ARE SICK!!!
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Precisely.
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One look at her countenance pretty much sums up what her soul is like. You can tell a great deal by observing faces.
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I didn’t know who she was before seeing the stuff about cooking a cat, but it’s difficult to imagine a celebrity chef in the US doing this and still having a career.
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Celebrity chefs in the US aren’t stupid moronic twits and not looking to commit career suicide. They know they’d be eviscerated if they tried a stunt a like this. Americans will not stand for it. How people in Australia let this go unchecked is insane. What the hell has happened to the world?
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I thought of Paula Deen with her antebellum parties, with black wait staff in uniform. But yeah, the closest thing to this that I can think of is when Sasha Baron Cohen convinced a food critic he was eating the flesh of a Chinese political dissident, who raved that the human flesh was soft “like butter.”
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Disgusting, heartless, and stupid! and more words too prophane to put down here. It’s one thing to try to control the feral cat population, though they are going about it all wrong; it’s another to do what this person is intending.
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It’s the result of years of unchallenged claims that cats are solely and primarily responsible for native species decline. I often feel like a broken record when criticizing the bunk studies about feline predatory impact, but when those claims go unchallenged, the result is behavior like this and seriously misguided government policies.
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The people who advocate for exterminating cats claim TNR doesn’t work. No data, no evidence, they just declare it doesn’t work and say slaughtering cats is the only solution.
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No wonder humans can’t seem to save endangered species! Humans are evidently confused enough to blame the wrong causes for extinctions, and also stupid enough to try to consume the very animals that protect our grain supplies, and homes, from rodents. (Farmers in my area still go to rescue groups seeking barn cats,; I suspect that’s true elsewhere, too.) Mind-boggling.
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Stuff like this makes me believe in the Great Filter theory and doubt we’ll get our immaturity as a species sorted out before we destroy ourselves.
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I keep trying to post this on your blog, but it doesn’t seem to go through. It’s frustrating seeing grotesque humans like this revel in the killing of sentient beings. I’ve been avoiding purchasing anything from Australia and New Zealand for decades because of their horrible policies towards these animals. The joy they get from slaughtering cats and other species is sickening.
Thanks for giving cats a voice and writing about these ghouls. Gothicrow
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I apologize, I have the moderator approval setting on this blog enabled because I don’t want readers to be upset by anti-cat crazies who post disturbing comments just to get a rise out of people.
If I kept the blog to the usual “OMG look at how adorable this cat from Texas is!” stuff like so many pet sites do, I probably wouldn’t have trolls, but since I do post about animal welfare issues and that sort of thing, trolls keep “testing the fences,” as it were.
Thanks for the kind words. You’re right that some of the Aussie and NZ anti-cat types seem to enjoy killing cats. In an earlier post about vigilantes in NZ, I included quotes from several people who admitted they enjoy killing cats. That should be a major red flag to the authorities.
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I want to say a lot about this but I’d have to curse and rant. So I’ll just say: this is truly appalling.
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I have no words. That is appalling
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