Why our media hypes the fear of avian flu when this is considered acceptable foodstuff sanitary standards in China is beyond me.
Somebody is going to make a lot of money off of our ignorance.
I remember seeing the pics of the rats and the chickens before - it was in some "expose" in Chinese tabloids -
basically, the rats *after being cut up into small pieces) were being passed off as various small wild games.
And the chickens ... yikes! the rest of the pics from that series was showing how dealers went from house to house to collect already dead chickens (died for whatever reason) and then prepare and artificially color them (that's the pic with the "golden glow") to make them appear as fresh BBQ chicken hanging from restaurant display windows.