Beware the cat stew, and not just because it's made of cat.公仔箱論壇6 u; u3 |6 P5 M/ Y" ~7 j
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Police in a town in southern China believe a local billionaire businessman may have been murdered over lunch by eating cat meat in a poisoned stew. The AP says the two men had a business spat and one invited the other to share lunch and talk business. Authorities believe the cat-meat stew was laced with toxins, killing billionaire Hunag Guang. His associate was taken into custody.
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9 d/ g& G9 b0 @/ ^' u& o7 dos.tvboxnow.comPolice say Huang and Long had economic disputes.tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb% B/ s# G7 N' f6 }6 o& R
Huang, deputy director of agriculture in Guangdong's Bajia township, is suspected of poisoning the hotpot with the herb Gelsemium elegans, according to a statement on the microblog of the investigating police.1 ?) D; \' |8 F. @+ e5 I$ @$ X
~- w! E% ?5 t8 {' A: `tvb now,tvbnow,bttvbGelsemium elegans is a toxic plant indigenous to southeastern Asia well known among hill tribes as an effective means for committing suicide.
A V: W& ~* G {: b2 ~; j# z3 f公仔箱論壇Eating just a few leaves can cause convulsions and prove fatal.
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Yet despite containing poisonous alkaloids, it is also still used in Chinese medicine to treat skin ulcers and increasingly being used in the mainstream.os.tvboxnow.com1 s1 K4 A/ p( e+ ^3 q
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It has also been suggested Gelsemium elegans has anti-inflammatory and anti-tumour effects.
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The herb is widely distributed in the north and south of China.
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8 G7 a4 C+ l! Q5 f5 E* z+ Y公仔箱論壇 Cat meat is a Cantonese delicacy, much to the growing dismay of animal rights advocates in China. In recent years, animal lovers have blocked trucks loaded with thousands of cats bound for Guangdon |
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