In southern China the practices of eating whatever can be found is still going on today..Most other areas of China do have supplies of "regular" food as you might call it. My doctor is from Shanghai and her brother lives in southern China and she said they eat a lot of "non normal" foods IE Cats , dogs and a lot of snakes. Im sorry to say it but if it is helping a person live then I can understand it(killing & eating reptiles)being an ok practice in my book. Look at escargo? calamari? octopus(which is great btw)Who in their right mind would look at this and say mmm yummy looking! But they are delicices(I know I spelled that all wrong! ITS LATE ) Just bc americans dont consider it normal doesnt mean that it is wrong or immoral.

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• scary statistics on chinese snake consumption - rtdunham, Wed Jun 4 22:53:13 2003
• Yep..I lived in Mainland China for over 2 years.... - oldherper, Thu Jun 5 08:20:37 2003
• hey terry, not sure what your post was meant to imply? more inside... - SFgeckos, Thu Jun 5 18:48:55 2003
• oops, meant to say SNAKES not turtles...n/p - SFgeckos, Thu Jun 5 18:50:53 2003
• Actually, in the past 15 years or so....... - oldherper, Thu Jun 5 19:15:27 2003
• RE: Actually, in the past 15 years or so....... - itsbrad, Fri Jun 6 22:11:16 2003
• That's exactly what I was trying to get across.... - oldherper, Sat Jun 7 06:29:02 2003
• not meant to imply anything... - rtdunham, Thu Jun 5 23:17:19 2003