Across China, aggrieved parties are increasingly turning to an outlawed but easily available weapon: a particularly lethal form of rat poison called "Dushuqiang."It sounds like another moral panic to me.
With case after lurid case being described in the state-controlled media, the Chinese government has had enough.
Last month, Deputy Agriculture Minister Fan Xiaojian told an anti-Dushuqiang task force that while most illegal poison producers had been forced underground, the fight was not over.There's a surprise: declaring something illegal doesn't solve the problem.
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