On Fri, 05 Dec 2014, alexander koryagin wrote to All:   
      
    ak> http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/30205410   
    ak> -----Beginning of the citation-----   
    ak> "Around three percent of the Swiss secretly eat cat or dog," said   
    ak> Tomi Tomek, founder and president of animal protection group SOS   
    ak> Chats Noiraigue."   
    ak> ----- The end of the citation -----   
      
    ak> Should a reporter replay the errors of the person he interviewed?   
    ak> Or we can write "cat and dog" without any article?   
      
   in this case, it is a type or category of something...   
      
   when you have chicken for dinner, do you same that your family members eat   
   chickens or do you say that your family members eat chicken? if only one   
   chicken was cooked? if you have a large family and two chickens were cooked?   
      
   in this particular situation, we're talking about types of meat so the   
   singular of each if more than one is listed is proper... the context is the   
   important identifier of which to use...   
      
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