China's health authorities are reported to be putting a stop to restaurants serving chickens which have been bitten to death by poisonous snakes.More here.
The dish, which is served by a small number of restaurants in Guangdong and Chongqing, is billed as detoxing.
But it has generated a storm of controversy in the media and among bloggers after a video of its preparation was circulated online.
The video shows a cook holding a snake and forcing it to bite a live chicken.
A week of intense internet discussion has reached the near-unanimous decision that it is cruel to kill live chickens by forcing deadly snakes to bite them repeatedly.
Some voices noted, however, that they found the cooked dish delicious.
Monday, June 1, 2009
Snake-bite chicken off Chinese menus.
The ol' cruel vs. delicious debate just got weirder.
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