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Eating worms as punishment

There's uproar on Chinese social media, after it emerged that a company had been forcing some of their employees to eat live worms as punishment for failing to meet sales targets.

But how common is that sort of practice? And what price are Chinese workers paying for their country's economic growth? Lee Cheuk-yan is the General Secretary of the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions.

(Photo: Worms. Credits: Remy Gabalda/AFP/Getty Images).

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