Australia to Chinese: Kangaroo IS Yummy

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Matt Siegel, Australia Courts China as a Market for Kangaroo. New York Times, Apr 13, 2011.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/13/business/global/13kangaroo.html?scp=1&sq=kangaroo&st=cse
("Within Australia, kangaroo meat has always been a tough sell, either because the animal is a national symbol, whose slaughter animal rights activists oppose — or because of its gamey, pungent flesh")

Note: "yaemei in Cantonese and yewei in Mandarin": the same Chinese characters 野味


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(1) Eric Bellman, Indonesia Is All Over This Problem Like White on Rice; Government Says Citizens Eat Too Much of the Grain; It's Cassava for 'The Cutie From Cireundeu.' Wall Street Journal, Apr 12, 2011.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703905404576164212551766804.html

My comment:
(a) Summary: Indonesians love rice, but their government is concerned about both price hike and not enough rice produced domestically. So Indonesia advocates adding Cassava, sweet potato or corn to rice--because its citizens MUST have rice.
(b) The report states, "But now, after years of promoting rice as the greatest thing since sliced bread, the government wants to diversify its consumers' carbohydrates."

sliced bread
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sliced_bread
(Otto Frederick Rohwedder of Davenport, Iowa invented the first loaf-at-a-time bread-slicing machine; in 1928; The first commercial use of the machine was by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri)
(c) purple sweet potato is native to Okinawa.

(2) Elisabeth Rosenthal, Rush to Use Crops as Fuel Raises Food Prices and Hunger Fears. New York Times, Apr 7, 2011
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/07/science/earth/07cassava.html?scp=1&sq=cassava%20china&st=cse

Quote:

"last year, 98 percent of cassava chips exported from Thailand, the world’s largest cassava exporter, went to just one place and almost all for one purpose: to China to make biofuel.

"Although a mainstay of diets in much of Africa, cassava is not central to Asian diets

Note:
(a) tapioca
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapioca
(a starch extracted from cassava; teh word came from Tupi language, in Brazil)
(b) cassava
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassava
(native to Latin America; Nigeria is the world's largest producer of cassava; Cassava is the third-largest source of carbohydrates for meals in the world)

The word is from Taino language, in the Caribbean.

"Cassava is the third most popular source of carbohydrate worldwide after rice and wheat."

(c) Just take a look at graphic and photo, if you wish. There is no need to read the text.
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