Beware the cat stew, and not just because it's made of cat.
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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.tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb! r4 Y8 E0 k! ]/ D* K) V# A
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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! D: u% l5 p: I6 |. J0 `& FGelsemium elegans is a toxic plant indigenous to southeastern Asia well known among hill tribes as an effective means for committing suicide.5.39.217.76$ s0 H6 n& O S2 e" {0 x
Eating just a few leaves can cause convulsions and prove fatal.
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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.公仔箱論壇" x8 W: j' E+ @" j7 s& J
# j/ P& `2 G5 X3 c公仔箱論壇In the 18th century it was administered as an analgesic and recent pharmacological studies have supported that use.
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The herb is widely distributed in the north and south of China.9 I, L3 E; K4 n. n% Z4 _) k7 B" y
% Z I* d/ k: c9 n 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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