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Chinese villagers eat dinosaur bones
ap ^ | 7/4/07 | ap

Posted on 07/04/2007 5:30:21 AM PDT by 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.

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To: Flavius

Chinese Captain Crunch


61 posted on 07/05/2007 7:25:42 AM PDT by wildbill
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To: Flavius

You know that contaminated toothpaste......?


62 posted on 07/05/2007 7:27:47 AM PDT by tom paine 2
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To: Flavius

This will probably not serve to raise your view any:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTsrf2OoBCk


63 posted on 07/05/2007 8:09:22 AM PDT by Hegemony Cricket (It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the round in the chamber.)
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To: GladesGuru

“These people will eat anything.”

My wife is Chinese. She tells me that in the larger cities, you will not see any birds flying around. Even the smallest sparrow is eaten...
The amount of meat I have at one sitting would feed a family of 4 for a week.
She IS thankful to be here...


64 posted on 07/05/2007 8:57:51 AM PDT by Paisan
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To: SunkenCiv

Bizarre...the Chinese seem to believe that the grossest and most inedible stuff have “medicinal properties.” With such a wide range of delectable choices (such as dinosaur bones, I wonder why they need acupuncture, tai chi, hospitals and the like).


65 posted on 07/05/2007 9:25:32 AM PDT by indcons (My 2-step solution to stopping terrorism: defuse the bombs; deport the muslims.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Heh, when I stop and consider the form of government they have (and the form of governement the modern-west Liberal wants) I find myself stumbling over who is dumber-

The people who have little else but Communist education (an education system that ignore entire ages in their formation just to claim their “independent” formation.)

or

the people who WANT said education.


66 posted on 07/05/2007 9:27:08 AM PDT by MacDorcha (study links agenda-driven morons and junk science...)
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To: Paisan

My fiance is American born. Her grandma (God rest her soul) made some interesting authentic Chinese and Viet food though.

Ever had jellyfish?

Some of the food is actually suprisingly ok...

Haven’t had enough to claim any of it is “good” though.

Never considered it before... maybe THIS is why they eat so much tofu. Not due so much to their history and out of “respect” of animals- but out of a recent indoctrinization that it’s “historical” so their government can excuse such conditions on actual edible meat.


67 posted on 07/05/2007 9:47:00 AM PDT by MacDorcha (study links agenda-driven morons and junk science...)
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To: indcons

Gigantopithecus was first identified from stock in Chinese apothecary shops (well, TCM, but anyway).


68 posted on 07/05/2007 11:20:40 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (This tagline optimized for the Mosaic browser. Profile updated Wednesday, July 4, 2007.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

A very high percentage of Chinese (Koreans & Japanese, too) are lactose intolerant so they don’t get calcium from dairy products. They average something around 50% of the calcium intake that Americans do...most of it coming from veggies.


69 posted on 07/05/2007 12:08:08 PM PDT by elli1
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To: wildbill

The thing about eating giant dinosaur bones is that you’re hungry an hour later.


70 posted on 07/05/2007 12:43:15 PM PDT by -=SoylentSquirrel=- (Bacon is the only thing that keeps me sane.)
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To: -=SoylentSquirrel=-

Giant dinosaur bones are also very hard to pick up with chop sticks.

that’s why you’re hungry later, you didn’t get enough.


71 posted on 07/05/2007 1:01:42 PM PDT by wildbill
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To: indcons

Yea, why don’t they call them a delicacy like the Westerner does.


72 posted on 07/05/2007 1:34:54 PM PDT by art_rocks
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To: SunkenCiv

Interesting book.


73 posted on 07/05/2007 6:09:25 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Turning the general election into a second Democrat primary is not a winning strategy.)
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To: elli1
"Coral Calcium is mined from fossiled coral reef."

Actually, no. the coral is sucked up from the bottom (small fragments). The coral is only a small part of what they are after. There are thousands of marine organisms attached to the coral fragments.

74 posted on 07/05/2007 6:15:16 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Turning the general election into a second Democrat primary is not a winning strategy.)
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To: Ditter
Ugh! I couldn’t get your link but I am having a little bit of trouble believing this. If this is for real he is trying to justify his actions with the mother of his victim. “See eating children is really not so bad.” btw, I have never heard of Alfred Fish.

Read Stephen King and Peter Straub's Black House.
75 posted on 07/05/2007 6:19:20 PM PDT by aruanan
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To: dead

I was hoping the guy, who Putin gave the polonium to, was gonna come back with super powers.


76 posted on 07/05/2007 6:47:49 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY
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In China, "Man bite dog", is not a shocking headline...

77 posted on 07/05/2007 8:28:12 PM PDT by BlueDragon (Flintstones, meet the Flintstones...)
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To: Flavius

That sure would explain the dragon legends in China.


78 posted on 07/05/2007 9:41:06 PM PDT by Ptarmigan (Bunnies=Sodomites)
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To: editor-surveyor

Quite, I’ve only got the first one, just barely got to peruse the other one.


79 posted on 07/05/2007 9:46:53 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (This tagline optimized for the Mosaic browser. Profile updated Wednesday, July 4, 2007.)
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To: cyclotic
A friend of mine that was originally from Laos, used to brag to me all the different things he’s eaten. It appears to be a source of pride or a sign of being atop the food chain to eat everything that walks the earth by people there. I often wondered if he’d ever eaten human before but knew not to talk of it to westerners.
80 posted on 07/05/2007 9:47:17 PM PDT by mamelukesabre
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