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BEIJING – Chinese police have broken a crime ring that passed off more than $1 million in rat and small-mammal meat as mutton in a food safety crackdown that coincides with a bird flu outbreak and other environmental pressures, authorities said.
During the crackdown, police discovered one suspect who had used additives to spice up and sell rat, fox and mink meat at markets in Shanghai and Jiangsu province.
In April, many consumers lost their appetite for poultry as an outbreak of the H7N9 bird flu virus spread in China. Sales dropped by 80 percent in eastern China, where the virus has been most prevalent, although experts stress that cooked chicken is perfectly safe.
But it was the rodent meat in particular that people couldn’t stomach, with Internet users turning to the popular microblogging site Sina Weibo to vent their outrage.
“Rats? How disgusting. Everything we eat is poison,” one user wrote.
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Yukh…they eat rodents,get sick,spread the virus,invent vaccine and leave the third world countries (us) in mess.
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I was thinking what if ‘these’ exported in another countries labeled as ‘Halaal’ 
I can tell one thing for sure about chinese, they are trustworthy if they want to export it they will but not under the label halaal
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How do you know that they are trustworthy? Any experience?
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Ew. I’m glad the Chinese authorities have at least cracked down on the criminal ring.
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Yeah! that’s a good news but we don’t whether it is exported or not?
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Unless you raise the animal, slaughter it yourself, clean it yourself and cook it yourself, you’ll never be 100% sure. Even if you do all those things, you still can’t be.
Aside from that, things just as bad as this get exported/imported all the time. Messed up, but true.
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I always wonder why packed food is much cheaper then fresh
