A man smokes bush meat at the bush meat market of Yopougon in Abidjan.

A man smokes bush meat at the bush meat market of Yopougon in Abidjan.

Insect cannery worker Suprawat Chotchak tastes

a canned water beetle made for human

consumption at an agricultural research

centre in Sakon Nakhon, northern Thailand.

A man slaughters snake at a restaurant at Le Mat, dubbed "Snake Village", some 10 km (6 miles) east of Hanoi.

Mac Smith, 14, (R) pauses to chew his rattlesnake as Sam Pintor, 18, (L) finishes eating during the rattlesnake eating contest at the 48th annual Rattlesnake Round-up in Sweetwater, Texas.

Japanese shoppers shop whale meat during a year-end sale in Tokyo.

A piece of sliced raw whale meat is pictured in a restaurant in Japan's oldest whaling village of Taiji, 420 km (260 miles) southwest of Tokyo.

A Chinese woman shows unprocessed swifts' nests harvested from her birdhouse in Sitiawan, in the northern Malaysian state of Perak April 20, 2001.

A Chinese cook calls out to customers as he prepares skewered quail for deep-frying at a food festival in Shanghai.

Canadian chef and restaurateur Chris McDonald's dish, quail stuffed with chicken, is seen in his restaurant Cava in Toronto.

A Chinese woman eats from an ox and dog penis dish at the Guolizhuang "strength in the pot" penis restaurant in China's capital Beijing .

Floyd West pulls a branding iron from the fire while 'prairie oysters' cook on top during branding day at the LJ Ranch near Jumping Pound, Alberta, May 8, 2005. 'Prairie oysters' are calf's testicles and are considered by some to be a culinary delicacy.

A Chadian boy eats a fried locust at Sabagali in N'Djamena.

A waitress shows "Braised Shark's fin with Saffron Chicken Sauce", one of the dishes of Diaoyutai State Banquet, during a news conference at the Hong Kong Jockey Club in Hong Kong.

A South Korean women chops dog meat at a

restaurant in Songnam, about 50km (30 miles)

south of Seoul .

Dog meat or "Dan go gi" in North Korean expression, is placed on a table at a famous restaurant in Pyongyang November 13, 2008.

A woman selects grilled rats in Suphan Buri province, 120 km (75 miles) north of Bangkok.

A chef chops cooked field rats at a wild game restaurant in Guangzhou, the capital city of China's southern province of Guangdong, Janaury 5, 2004.

Duck liver is served at French Restaurant, Jean Ramet, in Bordeaux, southwestern France.

A Chinese woman selling grasshoppers on stick, attends to a customer at a stall in Beijing .

A man eats fried scorpion and a centipede at a gourmet festival in Kunming, Yunnan province.

A Thai man poses while drinking a glass of rice wine with a scorpion in the village of Baan Niyomchai in Lopburi province, about 250 km (155 miles) north of Bangkok, on January 28, 2002. Villagers there are found of wine fermented with scorpions, believing the insects can cure various diseases and improve sexual potency.

An Andean woman cooks 'cuy', or guinea pigs, during a guinea pig festival in Huacho, northern Lima, July 20, 2008. Cuy is also known as a traditional fried or roasted guinea pig dish which dates back at least fifteen centuries to pre-Incan times.