Will the Swiss Quit Cooking their Kittens and Puppies?

When most people think of having the family cat or dog at the dinner table they don’t necessarily think of the pet on a plate. But in certain regions of Switzerland, it is apparently quite common to boil the cat or turn the dog into wieners—especially at Christmas time. When news broke last week that around 224,000 people, roughly three percent of the Swiss population, secretly eat domestic pets, The Daily Beast thought the story seemed too bizarre to be true.