Sunday, April 01, 2012

Panda Poo and £131

Potty wildlife expert An Yanshi has bagged five tons of panda pooh to create a new type of tea (Picture: CEN)


Who knew? The Pandas were leased from China by USA Zoos for $1 million. Little did any zoologist realize they had poo worth millions as well. What do you serve at the Zoo Cafe'?




Tea grown with the help of fertiliser (click title to entry - thank you) made from panda faeces has gone on sale in China and is being touted as the world's most expensive.


Pandas are notoriously bad at breeding – but they are prolific when it comes to turning out supplies of organic fertiliser.
Their nutritious dung is now being put to good use by a businessmen who has packed ten tonnes of the stuff around the plants on his tea plantation.
And at £131 a cup, An Yanshi claims to have created the world’s most expensive cuppa. 
He donned a giant panda suit to harvest his first batch of green tea, which goes on sale this week priced at £43,809 per kg....

A kg (killogram) is 2.2 pounds.