Those Environmentally Concerned Chinese

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

The Chinese culture, ingrained for thousands of years, is to eat almost anything that is safe.... and cautiously eat things that aren't. They have not been groomed by environmentalists, either. That's the last Ring Eared Flopsy on earth?... well we better eat it before someone else does.
They are not used to a surplus of food and not worrying about what they will eat next year, month, week.

A British born Chinese friend told me his Dad (Chinese born) said the Chinese had eaten every kind of meat in the 20th century. Yes, that does include human.

It's under 50 years ago that millions of Chinese people starved to death during the Great Leap Forward - some estimates put it as high as 30 million. To put that into context, approx 60 million people worldwide died as a result of WWII. And the Great Leap Forward (and ensuing chaos during the Cultural Revolution) was more recent.

It's sad, but I can understand it.