FYI: There is NO threat of famine in China. Period. Ever.
From a cultural perspective, if invited to dinner, there is always more food prepared than can be eaten and you must leave food on your plate after a meal. Otherwise you will signal to your Chinese host that you did not get enough and will be propted to eat more.
The whole infrastructure of China is set up around providing jobs and ensuring the food supply. This keeps the nationalism strong.
Plus this crew eats everything. Take chicken's feet for instance, mmm. Sometimes it is best not to ask. I did this after a particularly tasty but unfamiliar bit of food. What was it? duck tongue. It wasn't as appealing afterwards.
"Plus this crew eats everything. Take chicken's feet for instance, mmm."
Actually chickens feet used to be commonly eaten in this country as well.
you might do well to read up on a little history, say of the "Great Leap Forward" in the 1950's. Apparently, by your thinking, eating out was unthinkable back then, scarcely fifty years ago, because Chinese were eating grass and twigs, and the occasional afterbirth, to stay alive thanks to the policies of the Great Helmsman.
Check these google links to Chinese famines.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&rls=RNWE%2CRNWE%3A2005-47%2CRNWE%3Aen&q=Chinese+famines
You may have to eat those words,fella. People decry the death of the family farm in the USA, but it was replaced by massive scale corporate farming and trucking. The adherence to tiny subsistence farming ain't gonna help the coastal overpopulated megacities. There are no such things as "custom cutters" in China. Doesn't fit their culture. Eventually, oil shortages will break their "Farm to Market" link (at the most unfortunate time), and there will be some angry city folks.....Period.