Chinese villagers eat dinosaur bones

ap ^ | 7/4/07 | ap

[Flavius]

BEIJING - Villagers in central China dug up a ton of dinosaur bones and boiled them in soup or ground them into powder for traditional medicine, believing they were from flying dragons and had healing powers.

Until last year, the fossils were being sold in Henan province as "dragon bones" at about 4 yuan (50 cents) per kilogram (2.2 pounds), scientist Dong Zhiming told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

[RGPII]

In the humor section of the bookstore, “World News” (that real weird rag with the outrageous Big Foot stories, etc. (Bat Boy) has a book of headlines out, this doesn’t seem all that far from that kind of a story.

[dead]

If comic books have taught me anything, these people are soooo going to get super powers from this.

[GregoTX]

mmmmmmmmmmmmm dinosaur bones

[HereInTheHeartland]

I had a steak like that once.

[MacDorcha]

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/04/070412140942.htm

“fossilized” doesn’t mean the protiens are gone.

[geopyg]

“Stone Soup” is what I thought of!

[elli1]

I call BS. Any dinosaur bones found today would be fossilized, and I doubt that these people were eating rocks.

Approximately half of the weight of bone is calcium, a mineral. Calcium almost remains largely intact in fossilized bone (only occasionally recrystalizes), so ingesting ground-up dinosaur bone isn't much different than popping a couple caplets of coral calcium. Coral calcium is mined from fossilized coral reefs.

[elli1]

Totally amazing what the Chinese consider to be medicinal or to have special powers.

Coral Calcium

Coral Calcium is mined from fossiled coral reef.

[Brofholdonow]

My ex-Mother-in-law better go into hiding...

[Elsie]

Saddam must be rotating fairly quickly he got bombed for less

OH?

Tell it to the Kurds!

[Elsie]

I’m looking into marketing my dirty golf socks in the Chinese market.

Dirty panties actually have a market on the 'net!

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[GiovannaNicoletta]

I thank God every day that I was born in America.

[Elsie]

Gee!

Thanks!

[Elsie]

I thank God every day that I was born in America!

Nowadays you got to thank Him that you were BORN at all!

25% of pregnancies end in abortion!

[MinuteGal]

When a Chinese family sits down to dine, I'll bet it's interesting to watch them fight over who gets the two fifteen-feet-long, meatless drumsticks.

Westerners who travel to the 2008 summer Olympics in Beijing better be wary of dining at the Chinese restaurants, particularly those around the equestrian venue.

Leni

[MarkL]

Totally amazing what the Chinese consider to be medicinal or to have special powers.

Or edible... I've walked through China-Town in NYC, and didn't stop for a snack!

Mark

[GladesGuru]

“These people will eat anything.”

As a matter of fact, China has often been hungery - which is why they will eat just about anything.

[GladesGuru]

“answer the only people that care about it are sequestered onto small bulletin boards”

&

“as effective as screaming on the street with a sandwich poster that says the end is coming”.

Have you verified your theory of the lack of efficacy and/or impact of small Internet sites, like Freerepublic.com for example, with Jon Karry, Dan Blather, or The Goron?

[Slings and Arrows]

OK, not BS. Still, it means that people are even more stupid than I thought.

[End_Clintonism_Now]

Update: Frank "Fossil" Lautenberg Cancels Trip To China