Chinese chicken chokes after testing the water

OK, you have to accept this was a very limited experiment. I mean one man and one chicken, but it makes one wonder. Further testing will be required. Will keep you informed.

Think a bottle of mineral water might have poisoned you? Then test it on a chicken.

One Chinese family on the southern island province of Hainan had just that idea when one of their number started vomiting blood after drinking a bottle of water, a newspaper said.

They fed the luckless chicken the rest of the water to see what would happen, the Beijing News said, citing a report in a local paper. "The result was the chicken died within a minute," it said, showing a picture of a man holding a plastic bottle squatting over the crumpled body of the bird.

The province's authorities were investigating, it added.

Barely a day goes by without some new scandal over a made-in-China product, be it toys, toothpaste or fish, which has raised safety concerns in major export markets around the world.

In the meantime, chickens (human variety) will panic. This isn't something China needs right now.

Via Reuters.

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