date:May 06, 2013
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Unwitting consumers routinely purchased the meat, not knowing they were eating rat steaks at home.
Beyond the obvious gross factor of the discovery, the rat meat used in the scam was obviously never safety tested or inspected. It may have been, like many other foods in China, heavily contaminated with heavy metals and toxic chemicals. Rats, after all, don't live the cleanest lifestyles.
Despite years of food scandals -- from milk contaminated with an industrial chemical to the use of indust