Is there anything Chinese people DON'T eat?

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Red Squirrel

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I don't think they eat cows and chickens. They worship them instead.

I don't have a problem with what they choose to eat, it might be gross to us but maybe it's not to them. What I do have a problem with is how lot of them purposely torture the animal before killing it... if they even bother to kill it. Often they eat animals while they're still alive. I know this happens in nature all the time, but as humans we should be intelligent enough to at least make our prey's death as quick and painless as possible. We also mass kill animals, unlike nature, that just takes what it needs. We have a history for making lot of species go extinct or close to extinction. I would imagine this is not as big of a problem as it was in the past though as lot of animals are raised for consumption.
 

Iron Woode

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Why can't I judge? Because you say so? Because I may hurt your feelings? Or theirs? Why should I give a fuck whose feelings I hurt? Also, why are you trying to justify some of these incidents via "the context of their culture"? Is it ok to fill a whole pig with sewer water in order to make it heavier and sell? Or eat a dead fetus? Could you put those two into context for me?
you make a lot of accusations.

Culture differences can explain dietary oddities.

You also have no "real" evidence of many of the most shocking things. All we have is propaganda and pictures that have no context that can be verified. Food contamination happens, but a lot of Westerners dislike China and are willing to believe nearly anything that agrees with their prejudiced views.

The eating a fetus thing has been debunked numerous times.
 

dighn

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stop trolling. less than 1% of chinese eat that messed up shit. sure some of their more common foods are "weird" (pig feet, organ meat etc.) but no weirder than what europeans or japanese eat.
 

WelshBloke

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Everywhere eats weird crap.

They eat bugs and fish sperm in Japan for instance.

And fugu's not really normal.
 

WelshBloke

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Kind of hard to do in china when the people there are so scrupulous. Fake rice? Fake grapes? Come on, man, something is seriously fucked up there. Government ministers have their own farms or import.

Granted, China isn't the only place with scrupulous vendors. When I was on assignment in West Africa, some of the bags of rice had rocks in it. Then again, I was in a WAR ZONE...



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Dari

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Pretty sure you meant unscrupulous actually.

No. They are partly scrupulous, as far as the attention to detail is concerned. I mean, have you seen the fake rice, eggs, grapes, etc...? If I had to stay there for an extended period of time I wouldn't know where to shop.
 

Newbian

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the poor eat nasty things in this country too. they eat racoon, bear, squirrel etc...cuz its phree

Raccoon and squirrel sure but I would not say bear is in the same category as that's a lot harder to get and is up there with venison as game meat many people can eat but again not as common as it's a tough predator.
 

Howard

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No. They are partly scrupulous, as far as the attention to detail is concerned. I mean, have you seen the fake rice, eggs, grapes, etc...? If I had to stay there for an extended period of time I wouldn't know where to shop.
Man, you're a real gem.
 

luv2liv

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amazingly, none of them need bypass surgery and have lower rate of cancer. i would say thats a healthy diet, wouldnt you agree?
 

Ichinisan

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No. They are partly scrupulous, as far as the attention to detail is concerned. I mean, have you seen the fake rice, eggs, grapes, etc...? If I had to stay there for an extended period of time I wouldn't know where to shop.

Saying someone is "scrupulous" is saying they are extremely honest and moral; always striving to do the right thing.
 

DCal430

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Rat, Dog, Cat, and what other simple animal you can think of is no worst than Frogs, and even Pigs and Cows. Who do you think you are to judge what another group of people eat. Just because people in the west don't eat it, doesn't make it wrong or bad.

FYI no one intentionally data cardboard, they are tricked into eating it.
 

Capt Caveman

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Rat, Dog, Cat, and what other simple animal you can think of is no worst than Frogs, and even Pigs and Cows. Who do you think you are to judge what another group of people eat. Just because people in the west don't eat it, doesn't make it wrong or bad.

FYI no one intentionally data cardboard, they are tricked into eating it.

Dog, a simple animal? Not sure if serious, oh wait, you're a retard.

Let me know when a frog is helping the disabled, rescuing lives and working with soliders in Afghanistan.
 

DCal430

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Dog, a simple animal? Not sure if serious, oh wait, you're a retard.

Let me know when a frog is helping the disabled, rescuing lives and working with soliders in Afghanistan.

Pigs have been shown to be as intelligent if not more so than dogs. Pigs are capable of doing all of what you listed.