Posted on 08/15/2011 3:53:06 PM PDT by tsowellfan
Vietnamese people have heard many stories about the enigmatic material collection campaigns carried out by Chinese businessmen.
One time, Chinese businessmen came to the markets in rural areas to collect anise roots. This triggered a movement of destroying anise forests, a precious medicine, to obtain roots to sell to Chinese businessmen.
Chinese businessmen also collected corn silk, which prompted Vietnamese farmers to chop down corn plants, thus leading to the hunger among a part of people. In 1990s, yellow edible snails were imported from China to Vietnam as a kind of food. Vietnamese people rushed to breed the snails, hoping to become richer with the new kind of food. Only when the snails develop rapidly and destroy rice fields, did people understand for what purposes the snails could be used.
The also collected scrap which then prompted Vietnamese people to illegally cut optical cables. A woman, who was arrested because she cut cables, said that she mortgaged assets to get money to purchase three ships which she used to cut cables on the sea. The cables were then sold to Chinese businessmen.
Chinese buy cats, mice destroyed crops
The biggest “rat pandemic” occurred in 1997 and 1998, when all the cats were sold out to Chinese businessmen.
At that time, Chinese offered high prices to collect Vietnamese cats. This prompted Vietnamese people to trade cats by collecting cats from Vietnamese families to sell to Chinese businessmen.
Just after a short time, no cat was seen in the whole northern region. The absence of cats led to the appearance of mice. The harvests were destroyed, while rice at families was eaten by the mice. People wished they had not sold cats and they were burning to kill rats.
Only in 1999, when the first industrial cat farm was established in the north, while people could create new species of cats, did the “rat pandemic” begin easing.
More On The Story of Wicked Tricks By Chinese Businessmen
the food arrived just the other day
it came to the house in the usual way
there was a tip to give, and
paper plates, came from a wok just a mile away
it was good but don’t ya know it, before twas through
we found cat meat through and through, man
there was cat meat through and through. More at:http://www.amiright.com/parody/70s/harrychapin48.shtml
Ping for later
I didn't look any further.
You would think a place void of dogs would already be crawling with cats......
Chinese Food Parody Song (Cat’s In The Cradle)
Cat in the Kettle
Did you ever think when you eat Chinese,
It ain’t pork or chicken but a fat siamese
Yet the food tastes great so you don’t complain
But that’s not chicken in your chicken chow mein
Seems to me I ordered sweet and sour pork
But Garfield’s on my fork
He’s purring here on my fork
There’s a cat in the kettle at the Peking Moon
The place that I eat every day at noon
They can feed you cat and you’ll never know
Once they wrap it up in dough, boy,
They fry it real crisp in dough
Chow Lin asks if I wanted more,
As he was dialling up his buddy at the old pet store
I said not today, I lost my appetite,
There’s two cats in my belly and they want to fight
I was sucking on a Rolaids and a Tums or two
When I swear I heard it mew, boy
And that is when I knew
There’s a cat in the kettle at the Peking Moon
I think I got to stop eating there at noon
They say that it’s beef or fish or pork
But it’s purring there on my fork
There’s a hair ball on my fork
)
Is there any way we can pull this here in the U.S.?? Maybe a bounty on liberals’ tongues??
A major news story here in Thailand concerns smugglers rounding up soi dogs (strays and people’s dogs allowed to roam), stuffing them in cages, and taking them through Laos for sale in Vietnam. People are very angry at the treatment of the dogs as they are very popular pets. The pictures on TV are impossibly to watch. Such cruel treatment!!
I miss Koh Samui Island (Chaweng Beach) ever been there? The Ark Bar is so ALIVE every night!
Yup they eat dogs in northern Vietnam and in China
Sadly, we’ve never been to Koh Samui. We usually are consumed by “family business” here in the North. We did spend a couple of days in Phuket (way too touristy) on the way to Chiang Mai. The beaches are nice and there are very few “WalMart” bodies. However it was not like it was ten years ago when we last went.
Fantastic!
i’m sure ya all know this chicom saying which goes sumpthin’ like this... it don’t matter whether it’s a north vietnamese cat, a south vietnamnese cat, or not a cat at all, as long as it’s a vietnamese purdy cat that catches vietnamese mices, then it’s a good vietnamese purdy cat (:).
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