Why promote consumption of wild animals?


AT times we are rendered so speechless by the actions of some people that we fail to find the right adjectives to describe our shock.

This happened to me when I read on Friday that Pos Malaysia is planning to release “exotic food themed” postage stamps featuring three exotic dishes from Malaysia: “sea cucumber salad, turmeric-fried grasshoppers, and porcupine steak and rendang” (bit.ly/bernama_exotic).

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