China farmers feed slandered bananas to pigs
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Banana growers in southern China have taken to feeding pigs their produce to clear towering stockpiles after a string of rumors about SARS and cancer risks.
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Farmed seafood has now joined tires, toothpaste and toy trains on the list of tainted and defective products from China that could be hazardous to a person's health.
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Food scares are the latest indications that cutting corners or producing fake goods is still woven into the fabric of Chinaâs economy.
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KANSAS CITY, Missouri  - Two Chinese businesses and their top executives and a U.S. company and its owners were indicted by a federal grand jury in Kansas City on Wednesday for their alleged roles in manufacturing and importing a tainted ingredient used to make pet food, believed to have sickened and killed pets across the country.
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Consumers are being misled by pork that is labelled free range, animal welfare groups say.
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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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The pesticide was designed to kill worms infesting the roots of banana trees on Latin American plantations. But at least 5,000 agricultural workers from Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras and Panama have filed five lawsuits in this country claiming they were left sterile after being exposed in the 1970s to the pesticide known as DBCP.
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A Canadian pig farmer accused of killing 26 women wanted to kill as many as 75, an undercover officer tells a court.
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A manufacturing plant in Ohio was using the banned substance that ended up in feed for farmed fish, shrimp and livestock.
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The company reports disease problems on banana plantations.
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Western tourists and businessmen who are illegally buying tiger skins in China are responsible for the slaughter of one of the world&#39;s most endangered species, an investigation by a British charity has found.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Police raided an abandoned pig barn following complaints from suspicious housewives that their husbands were visiting the building too often - and arrested three alleged prostitutes, a pimp and 30 clients, a newspaper reported Thursday.
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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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China has sent a notice to the World Health Organisation defending its food safety standards and sentenced another food and drug watchdog official for bribery, its latest moves to assure the world its exports are up to par.
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With China celebrating the arrival of the Year of the Pig, Chinese factories that ordinarily spew a big percentage of the world's pollution are idle for a week. However there's no rest for the Chinese computers that produce a big chunk of the Internet's pollution.
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BINHU, China, July 14 -- It was early morning when an odd noise awoke Tao Qunxian, a farmer in this village on the banks of Dongting Lake in Hunan province. He looked out his front door to see his entire rice paddy had disappeared overnight. The culprit was a seasonal pest: the eastern field mous...
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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.