Difference on Meat Issue between China and North Korea

When you go to China recently, take care of what you eat, especially the meat. In Shanghai and the regions nearby, Rat Meat may be sold as lamb, disclosed by the Ministry of Public Security and reported by New York Times.

Sixty-three people were arrested and accused of “buying fox, mink and rat and other meat products that had not undergone inspection,” which they doused in gelatin, red pigment and nitrates, and sold as mutton in Shanghai and adjacent Jiangsu Province for about $1.6 million, according to the ministry’s statement. However, the statement aroused more heated questioning to the ministry rather than removed it. Many netizens post online questioning whether it is cost-effective to use the meat of fox and rat to produce mutton.

The food is a more and more serious problem in China, wherever the discussion leads to. So here comes the interesting contrast about the meat issue between China and North Korea:

In North Korea, you have no meat to eat; while in China, you have meat to eat, but you don't know what kind of meat it is.

PS, since Shanghai found thousands of pigs floating on Yangtze River, as we discussed before, why not use pig to make lamb? Is it too difficult? Oh, come on, this is China, the workers are able to make everything!