Back then everything was on the menu. I been to Chinese meat markets in Guangzhou and whampu. Dogs, kitten, insects, turtles ,everything was there being sold as edible meat .
But China in the 90 and early 2000s was different from now.
Things have changed, including menu.
Let's not keep living in the past
About birds, Chairman Mou himself declared war on the birds , because they ate seeds which farmers sowed. That was to increase crops yield .
But saying that , nations have wielded war 9n different animals and plants, then realised their mistakes and helped nature to recover.
For example 60 million bisons were shot down by white settlers in USA to starve the local tribes, as they relied on bison for everything.
Centuries later, now they are trying to revive Bison population.