Cat Food Uncovered. CAT FOOD UNCOVEREDCopyright 2001-2014, Sarah Hartwell The label and advertising shows images of plump chicken, juicy steak and fresh caught fish. What is inside the can are the parts of the animal we do not want to eat (and parts we don't even want to think about). One pet food company advertised its food as better than its competitors' products because it used poultry meat as their main ingredient while the competitors used feathers. In countries where the pet food industry is poorly regulated, diseased animals and spoiled unsold meat end up in cat food. The British pet food industry uses by-products (the bits we don't like to think about) from animals that have been passed fit for human consumption and, according to press releases at the height of the Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE, Mad Cow Disease) crisis, they removed BSE-contaminated tissue from pet food long before it was removed from human foods.
There is nothing wrong with the "icky bits" of an animal. Update 2008. The Evil Magic Of Cats, Caught On Film. @ceti: Lovecraft loved cats. There's a story about the time he and a co-author were sharing writing a story and the co-author went to bed for the night. The next day the co-author found HP had written nothing. Seems a kitten had climbed onto HP's lap and he didn't have the heart to disturb it.
And coincidentally just last night I saw The Creeper on an internet B-Movie station—a film about a guy who injects himself with a Mysterious Fluid and turns into a cat. Needed a BIG literbox, he did... @firstofnormalin: Oh, and of course, one can't write about cats in sf without mentioning Cordwainer Smith. Catatar - Release Your Inner Feline. Kocie podwórko.