WONG: And as some of our viewers know, in the Chinese lunar calendar, 2008 is the Year of the Rat. Many people will be celebrating this week, including rice famers in Thailand, who are celebrating the year of the rat by eating them up. Here’s more: STORY: Thailand’s central Suphan Buri (pron: Su-pan Bu-ree) province is the world’s biggest rice exporter in the world. But this year rats have invaded the rice fields and are eating up the crops. But when life gave them lemons, the rice farmers decided to make lemonade, and have been selling rat meat along the highway, to compensate for their losses as they celebrate the year of the rat. [Jong Oomsri, Rat Meat Vendor]: (male, thai) “The farmers want us to take all of these rats away. Even though it’s the year of the rat, they don’t want them because they destroy their rice crops. The rats are good value for money.” The rats are caught in bamboo traps. After being boiled and cleaned, they are ready to sell to food vendors and wholesalers. Rat meat is also a traditional dish in Thailand. And with a little basil and red curry locals say it’s even better than beef. [Somros Khaotai, Rat Meat Lover]: (male, Thai) “When we fry it with basil leaf, it’s crispy. It tastes better than beef. It’s a wild rat. It’s delicious.” Filipino farmers have also taken to rat hunting. They dig through the soil, drown the rats with water, and collect their bodies as they surface. They can catch up to one thousand rats a day. A bandicoot rat can weigh …
@DodgeVip3r I never said they’re for mass consumption, I said they eat when available.
@FXThug No need for name calling you moron, if you have read history you would know that no civilization farmed rats, cats, dogs and monkeys for consumption, delicacy yes but not for mainstream constumption.
@DodgeVip3r Are you stupid people have been eating rats and everything they can get their hands on for the last 5000 years. Just because we in the WEST don’t eat them doesn’t mean its not being eaten, we in the WEST is only like 1 billion people we are the minority.
nothing can be as disgusting as pork..eeukkkkk
there is plenty to eat in the this world with out the need to eat meat. Regardless – if you do want meat – there is plenty.
What is with you these guys…they eat anything… next they will eat their own shit…. fried with soy etc
No wonder half or more of the worlds issues with Aids – Bird Flu etc etc comes from their land…..
Shame on you……
chinese eat rats first, then they migrate to south asia. that is the reason why eating rats spread to south asia
probaly their motto is we eat everything that moves
later they kill and eat th white dog
I rike mine over flied lice…..
thats no reason to hate people, what they eat is their business, as long as they dont eat humans thats fine by me, they eat what they have to to survive, why do brits eat lamb, they’re cute too..at least you dont get many chinese/thai pedos!!!! thats a good reason to hate not yours, you’re just a rascist, bet if any other people eat rats you would respond it such a way!!!
What’s wrong with rat? I know an old woman who cleaned pigeons out of a friend’s barn and made a big batch of “chicken potpie.” She was a cook at a rural elementary school and the kids thought it was the best potpie they ever tasted. Guinea pigs come from Peru, where they’re used for meat. It’s called micro-livestock. Really, what’s the difference between a Cornish hen and a pigeon, or between a rabbit, guinea pig and rat?
Pigs have been eaten for about as long as goats, sheep, and cattle yet they were a common source for illness (trichinosis) up until pretty recently.
Eww…Rats?! I guess in a life of poverty, you’re gonna be desperate to get food. Even if it is rats.
you make a very good point there. But then in the end they die of hunger but then yea i know its horrible people dieing but its alot better then people dieing and passing it on around the world
somtimes you just gotta make due in the world of poverty, and eventually it becomes a delicacie
Eww rats
try living in a poor country like theirs and imagine your in their shoes i wouldnt be surprized if you ate rats too idiot
i bet they rabies like a mothafuka
Goats,Sheeps, Cows etc have been domesticated for over 5000 years therefore the human body has been accustomed to these animals. Rats, Dogs, Monkeys carry many bacteria and viruses that are foreign to our immune system and cause new diseases such as HIV.
These people are disgusting.
They celebrate them like this!? =O
I think these rats are better to eat than New York City rats.
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gross dude
i would eat one from the field!
MMMM Fried Rat w/Basil