Are you what you eat? The mixing pot offers some food for thought

"Billionaire", "poison", "cat stew". If the first two words promise a front-page story in the local edition, the last two guarantee it gets worldwide attention.

Long Liyuan, 49, died in December in wealthy Guangdong province after sharing a dish of slow-boiled cat meat stew with two men over a business lunch.

The killer, one of the other men dining, was accused of slipping a toxic herb in the stew as he had been embezzling Long and was on the verge of being found out.