BADGERS, BADGERS?

It is flabberghasting that there is no Chinese Wikipedia entry that corresponds with the English and Winaray articles about badgers.
Especially as there are indeed badgers in the Far East.

The Asian Badger, among many others.

Whole lot of badgers.


獾，又稱狗獾、歐亞獾、或亞洲獾。
也有豬獾。


A friend asked why there was no year of the badger. I gently explained to him that badgers do not have overblown egos, and therefore never need to have their own very special year.
It is ALWAYS a badger year.

Hound badger versus hog badger.

While researching 獾 on the internet, I came across this sentence: 但猪獾肉比狗獾肉鲜美 ('daan chyu-fun yiuk pei gau-fun yiuk sin-mei'). Literally, "but pig-badger meat compared to dog-badger meat (is) DELICIOUS!"

猪獾 ('chyu fun') is Arctonyx collaris, a mustelid which is smaller than the European badger, that lives in Central Asia and points further south.
狗獾 ('gau fun') is the standard issue civilised badger, widespread throughout the Eurasian continent.

I am appalled that anyone would consider either animal food.

This is just not cricket.


The two places in China with barbaric food habits are, of course, Dongguan (東莞 'tung gun'; "Eastern Clubrushes") and Shenzhen (深圳 'sam jan'; "Deep Ditches"). One of them is the pimp and sex-industry capitol of the country, the other is well-known for corruption, disease, and the brutal exploitation of migrant workers, as well as unimaginable decadence.
Capitalism and car-dealerships run rampant.

I have no doubt that those two places eat more badger than all the rest of Asia combined. Their fellow countrymen justifiably look askance at either locale, no doubt wondering what horrendous upbringing resulted in such depravity.

Real people eat pork, fish, and crustaceans.
And sometimes lamb.
Or beef.

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