Chinese police have found meat harvested from rats and foxes sold as lamb and mutton after it was processed with additives. The scandal was raking in millions of dollars and thankfully the rat-meat ring is busted.

The crime ring passed off more than $1 million in rat and small mammal meat as mutton, authorities said.

Authorities have arrested 904 suspects for selling and producing fake or tainted meat products, the Ministry of Public Security said in a statement posted on its website.

Despite persistent efforts by police, "food safety crimes are still prominent, and new situations are emerging with new characteristics", the ministry's statement said.

Police confiscated more than 20,000 metric tons of fake or inferior meat products after breaking up illegal food plants during the nationwide operation, the ministry said.

This seems to be a trend in China where food busts happen daily.

Meat sales dropped by 80 percent in eastern China in April, where the bird flu has been most prevalent. The Chinese are too relucatant to eat animals these day, not knowing the contents.

In March, more than 16,000 rotting pigs were found floating in one of Shanghai's main water sources, triggering a public outcry.

The public security ministry said police had confiscated more than 15 metric tons of tainted pork in Anhui province, although as much as 60 metric tons had been sold in Anhui and Fujian provinces since 2012.

But it was the rodent meat in particular that people are the angriest about. Internet users are turning to the popular websitesite Sina Weibo to vent their outrage.

"Rats? How disgusting. Everything we eat is poison," one user wrote.

The supreme court said 2,088 people have been prosecuted in 2010-2012 in 1,533 food safety cases. It said the number of such cases has grown exponentially in the past several years. For example, Chinese courts prosecuted 861 cases of poisonous food in 2012, compared to 80 cases in 2010.

Harsher punishments are necessary to combat the food scandals. China's penal code, which forbids unsafe and poisonous food, does not specify what acts are considered in violation of the law. 

I don't know about you but I'm nauseous. This is why I'm a strict vegetarian.

In case you weren't sick enough I bring you this food scandal right here in the US: