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  • Chinese market at center of coronavirus outbreak sold wolves, rats to eat

    01/23/2020 11:16:22 PM PST · by knighthawk · 64 replies
    NY Post ^ | January 23 2020 | Lia Eustachewich
    The Chinese market at the center of the deadly coronavirus outbreak sold live animals — including wolf pups, foxes, rats and peacocks — to eat, according to a new report. The wild animals were among 112 items that were peddled at the Huanan Seafood Market in the central city of Wuhan, Agence France-Press reported. Other wildlife sold at the market, which has since been shuttered, included crocodiles, giant salamanders, snakes, porcupines and camel meat.
  • Cambodian chef and villagers gear up for dry season rat craze

    10/08/2004 12:50:56 PM PDT · by Area Freeper · 47 replies · 754+ views
    AFP ^ | Fri, Oct 08, 2004
    Soeung Thy is praying for the monsoons to end so he can begin frying, grilling and currying rats to satisfy the hundreds of Cambodian villagers anticipating his feasts. Sitting in his small unnamed restaurant -- believed to be the first specialising in rats in the kingdom -- the 27-year-old says he started cooking up rodents to wild acclaim two years ago in this southwestern village. "At first I just cooked them for my family to eat, but guests who tried them said they were tasty, so I started selling a few fried rats to the villagers," he said. Business boomed...