Beware the cat stew, and not just because it's made of cat.
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# o2 T- D- o$ A4 B5.39.217.76 Police in a town in southern China believe a local billionaire businessman may have been murdered over lunch by eating cat meat in a poisoned stew. The AP says the two men had a business spat and one invited the other to share lunch and talk business. Authorities believe the cat-meat stew was laced with toxins, killing billionaire Hunag Guang. His associate was taken into custody.
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8 `, I# p% P4 i4 r2 W5 ~) f: R公仔箱論壇Police say Huang and Long had economic disputes.
4 A+ \. A) N+ v2 g* c8 qHuang, deputy director of agriculture in Guangdong's Bajia township, is suspected of poisoning the hotpot with the herb Gelsemium elegans, according to a statement on the microblog of the investigating police.1 x- O9 G/ Z! M& m8 J8 p
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Gelsemium elegans is a toxic plant indigenous to southeastern Asia well known among hill tribes as an effective means for committing suicide.
1 |# g7 B3 O2 E$ f" p4 k& ^1 t公仔箱論壇Eating just a few leaves can cause convulsions and prove fatal.
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: ?9 C& T" J( ~TVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。Yet despite containing poisonous alkaloids, it is also still used in Chinese medicine to treat skin ulcers and increasingly being used in the mainstream.
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* C( F% I' I l, l+ M1 k公仔箱論壇In the 18th century it was administered as an analgesic and recent pharmacological studies have supported that use.公仔箱論壇* P8 K$ ?4 c8 @% C; c
It has also been suggested Gelsemium elegans has anti-inflammatory and anti-tumour effects.
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The herb is widely distributed in the north and south of China.
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" d: K/ z |# r5 O# V# [, D5.39.217.76 Cat meat is a Cantonese delicacy, much to the growing dismay of animal rights advocates in China. In recent years, animal lovers have blocked trucks loaded with thousands of cats bound for Guangdon |
發表於 2012-1-5 01:42 AM
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