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china taste :: Article Creator Taste Test: China's Herders Chew On 'Fake' Meat Dilemma Editor's note: Wei Yiran and Phagpa Sherab are Ph.D. Candidates in environmental management at Peking University. This article is based on their field research exploring the influence of imported meat on herders and the meat industry ecosystem in pastoral regions on China's western Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. "Herders of my generation are all addicted to eating meat," says Sangye, a 60-year-old former herder living in China's northwestern Gansu province. "I'd often drink fresh cow and sheep blood, as well as eat internal organs like raw lamb liver and gallbladder. Our diet is probably very bloody to you." Like many other ethnic Tibetans who grew up as nomads raising livestock in the pastoral region on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, Sangye feels he couldn't survive a day without eating meat. In his younger days, he would ga...