200 million people in China live on less than $1 a day? Yes, but many of these families under the “poverty” level are self-sustaining and do not require more than $1 a day anyway.

Ice Cream and Pasta may have been created in China? Interesting thing is that in cities like Beijing ice cream is traditionally eatn in the winter and hot steaming noodles a summer favorite.

They also eat cats boiled alive? Yes, very accurate description of the preparation. Fortuately, dogs are slaughtered just as pigs, sheep and cows are. However, hard to blame them from eating cats or dogs when any source of meat is premium.

Moreover, combine fact about cats (meat shortage) and water shortage and you find another interesting fact. In 2005 the BBC reported that China was the largest importer of soybean from Brazil. Because of so much land not suitable for ranching, China has a shortage of beef and mutton. Pork and poultry comes from animals fed with soybeans. However, the farmland in China just grows soybean for human consumption. Therefore, the importation of Brazilian soybean makes China one of the largest contributors to the deforestion in the Amazon area.