Kurt Zouma thinks it's funny to use a cat as a football

He might not be so quick to kick with a couple of torn ligaments….not that I’d advocate that of course, just saying…

Not the upset part the animal cruelty part. Sorry I don't have a source however unless one lives in a vegetarian tribe they are contributing to animal cruelty.

My bacon and eggs. And milk were lovely thank you. And my burger tomorrow will be nice too. And, at expected, we see the usual brigade attempting to turn the conversation to their sanctimonious selves. Look at me... I'm better than you. Only I can dislike animal cruelty

I don't watch these type of vids but from the description his brother filmed it while laughing, more than likely this is not a first and quite possibly they've grown up doing these type of things and he's now including his young son in the 'game'

that's a problem, a big one

Can you fooking stop with your incessant drive to fook over Irish agriculture.

BTW I would hate to think what Mr Zouma would do to a dog.

Just another incident of a not very bright, in fact sometimes odious individuals, who happen to be pretty good at a sport and now make an absolute fortune thanks to eejits paying over the odds for jerseys, pay per view TV, etc.

Around 56 billion land animals are slaughtered each year. To feed those 56 billion land animals alone, requires more food than would be required to feed 8 billion humans is the point @Thelonious Monk was trying to make. So rather than feeding plants to an exploited animal who will then be killed, as well as all the crop deaths occurring to feed that animal, it's far more efficient to just eat the plants directly. Yes there will be unavoidable deaths and this is unfortunate, but the amount of unavoidable deaths will pale in comparison to feeding those 56 billion land animals and then intentionally killing those 56 billion land animals on top. This isn't even touching on the trillions of fish killed each year.

The relevance to the thread I believe is that people will get upset hearing of an animal that in our culture we see as a pet, being abused, while paying for the exploitation and abuse of other animals. Neither are necessary, but yet one is acceptable and normal just because our society and culture dictates it to be, yet from the victims perspective, they both value their life as much as we value ours.

This is better known as cognitive dissonance, which is explained pretty well here:

https://youtu.be/tnykmsDetNo

His career is in free fall, you’d wonder if there are more reasons then footballing ones as to why an established and international footballer playing for Chelsea gets shifted and is out on loan so much when he wasn’t exactly a youngster…

11 caps in 5/6 years for France

99 appearances for Chelsea in 6/7 years.. now playing for the hammers.

seems to be managers maybe don’t have great faith in him… most or some of that could be off the field carry on… it’s unlikely to be made public… but it’s not something he’ll live down… and clubs will be very hesitant now to be associated with ‘Kurt the cat kicker’

good enough for him too, play stupid games, win stupid prizes… I doubt he’ll escape a conviction as a bonus… police are investigating.

Pretty shameful from West Ham to name him their side tonight, that's next level brushing under the carpet

That's just ridiculous, you don't have to be a vegan to believe domesticated animals should be treated better in general. There are something like 1.5 million pigs in Ireland that never see the light of day, kept in horrific packed conditions. Almost all pigs are reared permanently indoors on bare slatted flooring over toxic slurry tanks.

We can do much better, but I would imagine the vast majority of people would choose cheap meat that they can afford to eat every day rather than more expensive meat that comes from well treated animals. That's why these kind of outrage stories annoy me.

Yeah lets all thank the good f**k it wasn't his television either

Don't respond to him. He's just looking for a reaction.