What is bizarre eating habit? It is a habit which involves eating food that is not commonly eaten by people. These are the reasons why bizarre eating habit happens: medicinal, survival and traditional practice.
Some of the people believe that eating certain food can cure sickness and diseases. This is not less popular in Chinese population as many Chinese traditional medicine are made with unusual plants or animals. For example, the crocodile skin is boiled to soup to drink in order to cure asthma is already very common in Chinese community. Not only animals, the root of the groundnut is also a cure for dwarfism. Chinese believe that the soup boiled with the root can make someone grow taller and faster.
In order to survive, sometimes people eat weird stuff. This is very common in poor countries as they do not have enough food to eat. Hunting animals without choosing just to get the meat made them think that any kind of animals are edible. They have to eat the animals meat to continue their lives. Although some animals they hunt may be illegal but they left no choice.
Besides, this habit is also practiced as tradition for some groups of people. Chinese are related to it as as well. Mostly Chinese man believe that eating the private part of big male animals such as tiger or cow. This is due to the reason that in tradition, this eating habit can give or boost up the manhood of them.
To sum up, this bizarre eating habit occurs due to the reason to cure sickness, to stay alive or to be practice as tradition. Lastly I hope that this habit can be stopped as it affects the balance of our ecosystem and animals are facing the crisis of extinction.
Lai Chun Hoe
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Chemical Engineering Department
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