The Chinese were not
different from all of these. But with industrial farming, farmers began
establishing chicken farms, cows, and pigs, and these became the three options
for eating protein. Peoples abstained from consuming horse meat, crocodiles,
and others.
Chinese cuisine
already contains animal products that are not found in other kitchens around
the world, but much of that relates to history, geography and culture.
1- One of the main
reason as to why the Chinese people eat everything is the large population.
2- Chinese people also believe in the medical benefit that they gain from eating various types of meats. As is the case with herbs in Arabs, in traditional Chinese medicine, there is no difference between food and medicine, according to the Chinese saying, “Food and medicine are one thing.”
For example: The Chinese
believe that eating donkey skin helps improve blood circulation and treat
anemia. And if you have asthma, a traditional Chinese medicine doctor may
encourage you to eat more bats.
The texts of Chinese folk
medicine include more than 1500 animal species, which can be used for medicinal
purposes; therefore many of the most controversial Chinese dishes that
Westerners will not touch are not daily dishes that ordinary Chinese put on the
dining table, but rather a medicine, used to treat diseases Certain.
3- Many religions of the world have instructions on what types of food to eat and what cannot or cannot. In Islam there is halal food, and in Judaism kosher is the kosher “halal” food, according to Judaism. But in China 90% of people define themselves as not having any religion; society in general has no taboos about what can and cannot be eaten of food.
In 1978 the Communist government began to liberalize the Chinese economy, and began to allow private enterprises to establish industrial farms for agriculture and animal husbandry. Producers of beef, chicken, and pork began to hunt and raise wild animals, and small farmers began raising wild animals, such as snakes and turtles. When the government felt that these prosperous industrial farms might help to feed the poor people in rural areas, it supported these farms; a law was passed in 1988 that encouraged the raising of wild animals for various purposes, including food.
Despite all this, do the Chinese eat everything? The answer came in a survey, conducted by the Wildlife Conservation Agency of China in 2020, and included about 10,000 people, in which less than 1% of the respondents said they would continue to eat wild animals.