The price of rat meat has quadrupled in Cambodia as inflation has put other meat beyond the reach of poor people, according to Reuters.
A kilogramme of rat meat increased to around 5,000 riel (USD1.28) from 1,200 riel last year. It’s still cheaper than other meat though… beef for example costs about 20,000 riel a kilogramme.
Some communities in Asian and South American countries have long history of eating rats or other rodents, but food shortages and inflations have pushed others to try rat meat in recent years.
Earlier this month, a state government in eastern India encouraged its people to eat rats in an effort to battle soaring food prices and save grain stocks.
Sometimes it’s hard to relate to poverty around the world. Here we are, using high tech gadgets and surfing the web while at other corners on earth people are eating rats because they can’t afford other meat… and it’s far from being the worse scenario yet. It’s kinda sad actually.
Once it’s skinned and cooked, I’m sure it’s as good as any other meat. In fact it’s probably much like squirl which is a dark meat and quite frankly pretty tasty stuff. Not to mention squirls are just cousins of rats,…rodents with big furry tails.
It’s be a good way to controll the rat population too. :)
Only risk is that catching rats that run wild in cities and towns may present problems with diseases. But if people can raise them in cages on farms or whatever, they’ll be a great source of food.
at least better than eating cats and dogs. i think peru or chile in s.america eat guinea pigs, also rodent right? its the mental block, if people can overcome that.. all meat can eat lah, except human lol :p