Exuse me but this is not for survival. This is cooking an unborn fetish as food for the restaurant and people out there. It's not like these people can't afford to buy food and have nothing to eat for days. They actually cooked a FETUS to SERVE at the restaurant and that is SICKENING.
No, actually, that's just it..they don't have money..
Seriously, mainland China has a population in the billions. They have more people than they can feed, and 80% of that population is in the lower class or in poverty. Though China is getting better at opening up, they are still communist, still a very closed society, who still try to be self-sufficient and don't like importing much stuff..And they try not to let the rest of the world know or see their poverty areas, where people are emaciated and living in shacks, but it's there.. I've been there, to Hong Kong and Beijing, I've seen the bags of kittens and birds in the marketplace. I've seen the roasted dogs. There just simply isn't enough to eat.
The article said they were selling the fetuses to the restaurant in a not-so-gigantically-rich city of China.. Like I said before, infanticide is huge, the one-child law is still in effect, and families still want boys. Selling the aborted fetus, rather than just simply killing it, is a way for the family to get money as well.
Again, not saying I support it, and not saying I'm not grossed out by it, but trying to look at it from China's perspective...