Alligator soup raises eyebrows in China
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Even in anything-edible-goes-in-the-pot China, the Huifu Fine-food Restaurant is drawing attention with special menu offerings that include alligator kebabs and soup &#151; complete with the endangered species' head and tail.
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With health authorities on alert against an outbreak of the deadly Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome epidemic, Shenzhen, a city in south China&#39;s Guangdong Province, has banned sales of civet cats and other wild animals, a delicacy at local restaurants.
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Chinese police tracking a suspicious vessel on a border river in southwest China got a shock when they found 270 crocodiles, a state news agency reported Monday.
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Increased Chinese steel exports give the industry indigestion.
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China accounts for about half of the global annual death toll from stomach cancer due to the Chinese taste for pickled and smoked food and unabashed enthusiasm for smoking, the official Xinhua news agency said.
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By Photos by Gary Whitney For the Deseret Morning News  When Gary and Susan Whitney went to China this fall, their brains were overwhelmed with images: Rising water in the Yangtze River Gorge. Pandas lazing about in trees. Temples. Pagodas. Soviet-style apartment buildings.
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In a region where monkey meat and snake-blood wine are hot menu items, the Southeast Asian country serves as a hub for selling and shipping rare&#151;and illegal&#151;delicacies.
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Culinary solution to Three Gorges Dam rodent disaster Residents downstream of China's controversial Three Gorges Dam in Hunan province have responded in traditional fashion to a plague of two billion rats forced into farmland by rising water levels - by offering them to restaurants in neighbouring Guangdong province, the home of "if it's edible, we'll eat it" Cantonese cuisine.â¦
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China is filthy and needs to spend lots of money to clean up. American companies could get that business.
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NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. - A man retrieving balls from a golf course lake was attacked by a 7-foot alligator Wednesday morning, suffering minor injuries to his foot, authorities said. Vernon Messier, who was wearing a diver's wet suit, was standing in waist-deep water on the No.
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China on Tuesday sought to reassure consumers already spooked by a slew of food scandals that poultry was safe to eat after officials confirmed the first H5N1 bird flu outbreak since May.
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Many endangered species are under threat from growing prosperity in China, where exotic animals are butchered for gourmet banquets, exotic medicines or luxury goods.
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In Shanghai, China, the Hooters, KFCs, and 7-Elevens may not be what an American would expect.
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By Cao Li  SHANGHAI: A fast-spreading, foul-smelling, blue-green algae has smothered a lake in eastern China, contaminating the local water supply for millions of people and sparking panic buying of bottled water in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province.
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GUANGZHOU, China - In southern China, it doesnât matter if an animal is an endangered species. As long as it walks, wriggles or jumps, itâs good enough for the pot.
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Here's one China-themed stock that's not doing so well.
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Fish could give you cancer, snails meningitis and baby milk may kill your children -- barely a day goes by without some new food horror story in China. This is helping drive sales in another, though still tiny, food sector in China -- organic produce.