Fergus McCullough: belief

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…Great. Fergus, comment or question? Yes. Going back to the exotic-ingredients aspect, I think we mentioned deer tendons earlier. In the West at least, deer, typically wild — it’s quite difficult to domesticate and farm them. What does the economy of accessing those ingredients in China look like? Presumably, some are intensively farmed, if possible, but presumably, others are very difficult to get your hands on. They’re quite unusual. Some of them are imported as well, and some of them are wild. Then, of course, one of the problems that China has is also with an illegal trade in wildlife, but that’s under the table. That’s not in the open, so you are unlikely to find these things on sale in markets. Most people would never eat any wild food because it’s expensive and scarce. When I was saying about things like the deer tendons — that’s a grand old imperial delicacy and not something common at all. Then some ingredients are imported. Bird’s nest is farmed. A lot of it is farmed in Malaysia.…

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