Chinese leader calls for a crackdown on excessive farting

It may be old news, but it's news to me:

Leaders from Sun Yat-sen, considered the founding father of modern China, to Deng Xiaoping, architect of the world's fastest growing economy, have all tried to eliminate the habit [of spitting].

During the years of the Chinese republic between 1911 and 1917, Sun reasoned that foreigners did not respect Chinese in part because they lacked "personal culture." He called for an end to spitting, growing long fingernails and excessive farting.

Oh, come on. Farting is a basic human right! (It looks like I'm a little obsessed with it, doesn't it?)