"Please don't eat me!"
Courtesy;-http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Rats_young.jpg If you are going to puke or felt revulsion on this topic, please stop reading and do not continue .
If you are having lunch ,dinner or eating anything , please finish your meal before you read this post.
They are the most prolific breeders , found in abundance and they are very hardy and can survive in any tough conditions. They can spread germs and plagues and because of this ,many people have a phobia or bias and prejudice against eating them.
They can be a pest and steal your food , sharpened their teeth on your soap or any wooden parts in your house. They can be very destructive and bite any rubber hose, gas pipes or wires and cause you heartaches.
There are the city rats, the country rats and those rats that are kept as cute pets. Those town rats can be gigantic and appear out of the sewer holes and are not afraid of the people.
The country rats are cleaner because they eat more greens than those town rats which fed on those polluted foods. T
here is no commercial rat farms yet as this menu is not very popular and more over, there are many that can be caught in the countryside. There are many people in some countries who eat this delicacy and they are well and healthy. It is just the perceptions. If the meat was prepared well, you would not know which animal it came from.
Courtesy ;- BBC News. uk
The Chinese eat all kinds of exotic animals and they have no taboo's. God made all kinds of animals in this world and all can be eaten except certain animals are forbidden in some religions.
I would not follow a religion which forbids the eating of any animals. What has eating with a certain animal to do with religion? We do not have to follow all those old dietary laws in the Old Testament anymore.
When I was a young Christian ,I was told that we should not eat the blood of animals because it represents life. There was one pastor who would not eat chicken if there was some blood on the bones. Tell that to the Masai people of Kenya who drink the blood of cattle's.
We have been psyche that this animal is dirty or a taboo .Since we have a choice , most of us will not eat rat meat but one day should you be lost in a place where there is no food, you will have to eat anything that walks or crawls in order to survive.
They are not different from chickens,pigs or cows which can cause sickness if the animal is sick or infected. With millions of poor people, the rat meat is a good source of free and cheap protein,
Treat it like a chicken and after one gulp or two , you will get addicted to it. LOL!
With food prices escalating beyond some of the poor, this idea of eating rat meat seems more feasible . It taste better than chickens as claimed by some . Maybe it tastes like between a chicken and a frog. Many of the poor traditionally eat rats that they hunted in their paddy fields.
You can cook the rats into tasty dishes . Substitute the chicken meat or pork or meat with rat meat in your menu. You can see how they are prepared by those cooks.
Not only rats, we may have to eat other exotic foods when the food is scarce and expensive.Soon , some of the animal species will become extinct due to the opening of the new lands or destruction of their habitats or they ended up in someone's dinner table.
Even their youngs are not spared. Those hairless young rats born after a few days with their eyes not opened are eaten raw . They will wrap them with a salad leaf and then swallow whole or the brave ones biting onto them . Eeeeooow!
For the Chinese people, nothing is wasted, anything that can be eaten , will be eaten. It is a culture that learned from many years of hardship and survival instincts.
Are you game for a piece of rat snack ? Join the 'Fear Factor' show.
Related topic by same author;-
http://www.pinksuzie.com/2007/09/19/exotic-foods-that-titillate-your-senses/
Reference and thanks to ;-
For more pictures ,
Google " rat meat' in Google images.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2553352/Eat-rats-for-snacks-says-Indian-official.html
Graphic pictures -raw rats being prepared.
http://www.snopes.com/photos/food/rats.asp
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7557107.stm
http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/places/regions-places/africa-northwestern/togo_eatingrat.html
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