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Cows accidentally killed by poisoned pasture

Tue, 25 October 2016
Touch Sokha

A Takeo province rice field strewn with poison to deal with a recurring rat problem led to the deaths of 10 cows when they were brought from neighbouring Kampot to graze, police said yesterday.

full-story...http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/c ... ed-pasture

The Yuon deliberately poisoned them according to Kohsantepheapdaily.com.kh http://kohsantepheapdaily.com.kh/article/153079.html

Those bastards! I bet their subversive as well.

Srok Khmer? A country... Srok Khmer? A playground for some Youn!

But we will chop them up and eat them anyway ! Yum Yum.

And it's ok for people to eat the rice from this field then ? If it's enough to kill a cow, I hate to think what it would do to a kid. The cows eat more of course, but it's still a worry. Or does the poison 'disappear' by the time the rice is harvested ?
They seem to use all sorts of pesticides on the rice here (source: random news articles), and with the dubious amount of food control in Cambodia, it seems obvious that alot of this shit remains in the food and is poisoning the population.
Including us of course. Who doesn't eat rice in Cambodia ?

Vietnam also has a problem with pesticides in their rice production - even rice for export to the US:

https://cambodiaexpatsonline.com/the-res ... 11031.html