I'd eat cat meat if it tasted good. That particular cat is already dead so it's not very intelligent at that phase anyway... and someone went through the trouble of making food of it so why not. At that point, conversation about the cat's intelligence is a bit moot isn't it?
Whether or not I would condone widespread cat meat industry is a different thing altogether - I don't think eating cats would be economically and ecologically profitable, since carnivores have rather low efficiency when they're growing up - they eat meat themselves, whereas herbivores and omnivores (like pigs, cattle or chicken) grow much faster with way less initial energy from the grain or whatever plants they're eating. In that regard, cat/dog meat industry can and perhaps even should be avoided.
Interestingly, I don't have problems with intelligence as far as pigs are concerned. Probably because of social conditioning. But I would kinda take offense at people starting to industrially grow up, slaughter and sell chimpanzees' or other apes' meat... and I definitely don't condone poaching of apes.
But, in general, I find it way more revolting when people kill any animals and
don't eat the meat, than to find eating some particular species significantly more un-appealing than some other.
...Or when people cook and eat living animal. They actually do that in somewhere far east... they take some reasonably sized fish and
fry it's lower body in boiling oil while it's still alive. Then they bring it to the table, where it still lives a couple dozen minutes while you pick the meat off it's sides.
You need to be careful not to cut into it's abdominal cavity and guts, though, while you're eating it - that would kill it faster!
And obviously it's disputable whether the fish have enough of a consciousness to experience pain as anything more than a sense amongst others, but honestly, I wouldn't want my meal staring at me and gaping for a breathe on it's plate...
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