Indian officials tell poor people to start eating rats: 'The beauty is we have billions of them'

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Indian officials tell poor people to start eating rats: 'The beauty is

Rats on the menu: Poor people in some parts of India are being told to eat them
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State officials are asking hotels and restaurants to devise interesting ways of poaching, roasting or stewing the meat.

'Once people accept it as just another meat like chicken or mutton, it will become popular,' said Vijay Prakash, Bihar's social welfare secretary.
 
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Indian officials tell poor people to start eating rats: 'The beauty is

Rats on the menu: Poor people in some parts of India are being told to eat them
www.standard.co.uk www.standard.co.uk

State officials are asking hotels and restaurants to devise interesting ways of poaching, roasting or stewing the meat.

'Once people accept it as just another meat like chicken or mutton, it will become popular,' said Vijay Prakash, Bihar's social welfare secretary.
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fortysixyears
"The beauty is we have billions of them." Rats or poor people?
 
Of course, it’s likely only a small minority of people in India who eat rodents. Just as I’m sure it was a small minority of people in China eating bats or raccoon dogs or whatever. But the zoonosis theory was just one of many regarding the origin of the COVID virus.

It’s interesting to learn of this given the recent news about hantavirus… maybe India will be the origin of the next scamdemic? If so, hopefully the spam calls will slow down a bit.
 
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