bats snakes and pangolins wild animals
like these are believed to be the source
of the corona virus pandemic corona
virus cases the growing corona virus
outbreak researchers say it stemmed from
this wet market in Wuhan China images at
the market from early December taken by
a concerned customer indicate he was
apparently selling other live wild
animals including skin birds snakes and
raccoon dogs and now that the virus has
become a worldwide pandemic we're
hearing this question a lot
why do Chinese people everything do
Chinese people eat everything I think
that really depends on who you're
talking to
this is why Chinese a series where we're
debunking common stereotypes about
Chinese people one Google search at a
time there's a saying in Chinese babies
young 10 dress washes it means that if
something's back is facing the sky it's
for people to eat
and what might not seem like food to you
could be a delicacy to the Chinese sue
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what should we do don't see what you do
that you are so we got some non Chinese
people to try some common Chinese dishes
ha sweet baby Jesus okay is it is it
snake soup I mean I just figured
adventurous like alright well I'm gonna
try some snake not bad
not sure if II's again because it's kind
of scary getting today I would say like
like I don't know what an egg you would
find in your attic like a nice like
musty like ancients like like an egg
your grandmother bequeath to you sort of
if you had like a wet socks that's dirty
and it's been sitting in your laundry
basket for a week that's what it smells
like
I know it's gonna be something weird
this is made from a turtle shell does
the turtle stay alive after we take the
shell that's a no I'm eating a murder
turtle right now so a person who's not
familiar with Chinese cuisine it might
seem like the Chinese palates who knows
no bounds so why do you Chinese people
seem to eat so many more types of meats
than the rest of the world here are some
reasons show on the TV one Jean woman
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geography China is a vast and
geographically diverse country it has
nearly 10% of all plant species and 14%
of animal species on earth woman tone
open that have young eat it or sleep in
the Himalayas and syndicate so it's hard
but generally the wife in the P+ so you
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her your your cousin where don't see
much this has resulted in very different
diets
across different parts of the country
if you're you know talking to your
average City person and some higher
Beijing or some new you know chances are
they're very similar to say like an
American they'll only pork beef and
chicken but if you go into more rural
places they will probably get more
adventurous things the province of
Sichuan consumes the most rabbit in the
country and rabbit head is a delicacy
and there's not much meat to it but
people like it for the texture number
two
traditional Chinese medicine many plants
and animals end up being used in
traditional Chinese medicine
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simple young secrets so y'all should so
you telling it you're English merchants
you're to the door to my
Yoshio see things or hansik when the
children's life so to show you here are
a few examples there bile is used to
treat paper and call bladder condition
fat meat is good for asthma donkey hide
or ETL is believed to improve blood
circulation and treat conditions like
anemia texts on traditional Chinese
medicine identify more than 1500 in all
species that can be used for medicinal
purposes another reason is religion 90
percent of Chinese people consider
themselves irreligious and don't have
the kind of food taboos you might find
in faiths like Judaism and Islam Ian and
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on top of these three reasons just a few
decades ago one big law really shaped
China's wildlife industry in 1988 the
wildlife protection law encouraged the
domestication and breeding of wildlife
for various purposes including for food
about 30 years later in 2016 the
government limited wildlife breeding the
only scientific research and
preservation but by then the wildlife
farming industry was already booming
employing millions of people and feeding
millions more to this day wild animals
can still be found in wet markets and
restaurants across China but even though
they might be available only a minority
of people are consuming them less than
1% of people said they would still eat
wild animals in a survey conducted this
year by Wildlife Conservation agency in
China
sure Chinese people eat everything but
so do many other cultures around the
world or once upon a time everyone ate
everything
it's just with industrialization and how
we've domesticated a lot of farm animals
that our protein choices have become
more limited so even though there are
weird and bizarre dishes in Chinese
cuisine and the ingredients are more
diverse than in most of the world in
their day to day lives most Chinese
people eat pretty much the same meats as
most of the world so why is there this
global fascination with the weird
fringes of Chinese cuisine accusations
of Chinese people eating questionable
meat
data as far back as the time of Marco
Polo when he called Chinese people
barbaric for eating stinking dogs it
continued into the 19th century when
Chinese immigrants started moving to the
United States their eating habits became
yet another way to alienate them and the
stereotype continues to this day I think
just growing up and even bringing
Chinese which is school people are like
all that's gross and I remember during
show-and-tell during seventh grade I all
I had to do is like oh my dad eats sea
cucumber and
I was absolutely fascinated and the dog
trope does come up every now and then
but I think growing up in California
people have tired of that joke I think
when people have these remarks about oh
do you guys eat dog I think it's just
born out of ignorance and they know very
little about China or have never been to
China so that's you know our job to
educate them
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