This morning on my daily walk there were loads of dead fish in the pond I pass by … a foul stench of the cadavers started to be noticeable … now the thing I was wondering about were the guys sitting around the pond … fishing … doesn’t any of the binlang brains kick in and started wondering why there were so many dead fish on the pond … and what about the ones they catch, are they still good for consumption?
Or perhaps the fish were just stunned by the binlang spit? 
I thought you are long enough in Taiwan to rule out any ideas like poisoning or illness and rather think of reasonable causes of the fish death as…
Are you sure they eat them? I’ve seen people fishing in the nasty, Keelung River a few times and I figured they were just doing it for something to do and either throw the fish back or leave them on the shore to die, but wouldn’t bring them home and eat them. But. . . 
you really think they would eat them!?
It’s just a way to make a little extra cash sellig them to the fish market.
[quote=“ab12ra12”]you really think they would eat them!?
It’s just a way to make a little extra cash sellig them to the fish market.[/quote]
exactly… “as long as it’s strangers eating them, who cares…”
no worse than the fishfarms that 90% of the fish on the Taiwan market come from anyway…
I’ve seen huge fish farms next door to steel mills and fertilizer plants in industrial Gaoxiung county that supply countless resaurants and supermarkets all over South Taiwan… hundreds of floating rotting dead fish in overcrowded pools of filthy black/brown water… I’ve seen similarly grim farms in Taichung and Nantou county as well… the day I saw that Gaoxiung fish farm was the last day I ate fish on the West coast of Taiwan… 
I don’t need to see the fish farms to know that. My wife bought some kind of river/pond fish once at the traditional market and it tasted like mud. Really nasty. Only ocean fish for us ever since then.
Oh god, I’m in awe.
I shudder to think where the minced meat comes from or the conditions of a meat slaughterhouse.
gosh, i wonder how ALL those lunch box places make money off those 50-75 nt lunch boxes. Some are even discounted to 45nt! And that’s with meat, rice, veggies. That’s like what, 2.50 US dollars??? and I thought I was saving tons of money, but now I’m scared for my health…
How do you think Mc and king burgers are made?
[quote=“maybin”]
I shudder to think where the minced meat comes from or the conditions of a meat slaughterhouse.
gosh, I wonder how ALL those lunch box places make money off those 50-75 nt lunch boxes. Some are even discounted to 45nt! And that’s with meat, rice, veggies. That’s like what, 2.50 US dollars??? and I thought I was saving tons of money, but now I’m scared for my health…[/quote]
That’s what I’ve always thought about when I read that people are leaving Taiwan and what they will miss–the cheap food.
No meal served with fish or meat should cost less than a tank of gas for my scooter.