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Big_Bird
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
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 Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 4:38 am Post subject: Got a rat problem? Why not eat the buggers! |
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,,2127853,00.html
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'Rats' on the menu after China swamped by 2 billion rodents
� Field mice plague caused by worst floods in 50 years
� Plans to build 24-mile wall to stop future invasions
he business management philosophy that one person's crisis is another's opportunity may perhaps never have been taken to such bizarre extremes.
A plague of 2 billion mice in central China was described just days ago as being so bad that it resembled a scene from a horror movie with roads and hillsides turned black with rodents.
But in a remarkable display of entrepreneurship, businessmen are catching, shipping and selling the eastern field mice, also known locally as rats, to the southern city of Guangzhou, where restaurants are reportedly offering rodent banquets to diners notorious for their unusual tastes.
"Recently there have been a lot of rats ... Guangzhou people are rich and like to eat exotic things, so business is very good," the China News Service quoted a vendor as saying.
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HapKi
Joined: 10 Dec 2004
Location: TALL BUILDING-SEOUL
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| Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 10:12 pm Post subject: |
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| I must admit, semantically speaking, a "field mouse" sounds more appealing than "rat" does. |
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DCJames
Joined: 27 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 7:37 am Post subject: |
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Eating exotic animals like this is what caused SARS a few years back.
Haven't the Chinese learned anything? |
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 1:58 pm Post subject: |
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| That's funny. Just today I was talking about how Guangzhou sometimes gives the rest of China a bad name. |
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