Beware the cat stew, and not just because it's made of cat.tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb* u9 ~& ?. f8 |9 L* ~( e. S
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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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Police say Huang and Long had economic disputes.0 Z5 g6 h. `0 y: s5 k
Huang, 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.
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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.
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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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9 ?" w5 T( e# ~" v) r. AIn the 18th century it was administered as an analgesic and recent pharmacological studies have supported that use.
0 i4 q2 F4 @& E E4 ~It has also been suggested Gelsemium elegans has anti-inflammatory and anti-tumour effects.
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/ J1 ^* U* H" f, C1 D# AThe herb is widely distributed in the north and south of China.公仔箱論壇' d- l1 t/ F. `( C
8 H+ f1 S" d1 f$ H7 S- xtvb now,tvbnow,bttvb 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 |
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