On China’s Menu: General Tso’s Rat and Poison Peking Duck
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May 6 (Bloomberg) -- In China, it’s often said that aperson who commits fraud is “hanging out a sheep’s head to selldog meat.” The meaning is wide-ranging -- and metaphorical. Butrecently, thanks to a stream of food scandals, the folk sayinghas begun to bear an uncanny relationship to the truth.
Last Thursday, China’s Ministry of Public Securityannounced that in February police arrested 63 people involved inselling rat meat mixed with mink, fox, gelatin, red foodcoloring and nitrates -- as lamb.