2015년 2월 5일 목요일

The world's most trafficked mammal

BBC News Magazine
 
 
 
Afternoon all,

Let me introduce you to the world’s most trafficked mammal:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Pangolins aren’t trafficked for their cuteness factor.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
No really, they’re not. Their scales are touted as a cure for everything from cancer or acne, to poor lactation in mothers. And their meat is considered a delicacy in China and Vietnam. Martin Fletcher went to a restaurant where they offered to bring a live pangolin to his table, slit its throat and serve the blood - apparently an aphrodisiac. All that before steaming the meat and chopping up the tongue for soup. Already there are no pangolins left in great swathes of South East Asia, so Africa's populations are now being plundered.

The world's most-trafficked mammal - and the scaliest

There’s a long list of regulations for your passport photo, including a "no smiling" rule. It didn’t used to be this way.Once upon a time, you could pose wherever you like - something the Archbishop of Canterbury Randall Davidson took full advantage of:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
And if you wanted to wear a pheasant as a hat, you could.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
How have passport photos changed in 100 years?

Lee Chang-hyun is a noisy eater.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
He has invested in a good microphone to capture the full crunch and slurp. It’s important he gets it just right so that his audience - about 10,000 people - give him "star balloons". The internet channel he works for gives him money for each star balloon. Yep, Lee is paid to eat. This is not a scene from one of Charlie Brooker's futuristic dramas. This is eight floors up a tower block in Seoul.

The Koreans who televise themselves eating dinner
 
 
 
 

Meanwhile...

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
That's it from us today. 




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