The £700 question: does cheap caviar mean killing dinosaurs?

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Chinese caviar is backed by the state, with a single producer developed by its agriculture ministry producing 35% of global harvests in 2024 – and these competitors can offer prices as much as £700 cheaper per kilo

If you had a two-metre-long aquatic dinosaur, a silent, whiskered behemoth so adapted to life in the murky depths that it has not evolved since the mid-Jurassic – would you keep it in your pond? 

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