Tue, 22 Jan 2008
DPA
Phnom Penh - The rocketing price of more conventional meats due to bird flu quarantines and world oil prices has doubled the market price of rat meat in Cambodia, local media reported Tuesday. Rat meat has become so valuable that rice farmers "in their hundreds" had set up sideline businesses catching rats and making them table-ready, reported the Khmer-language daily Kampuchea Thmey.
Whereas a kilo of the best quality rat meat went for around 50 cents two years ago, it now fetches up to 1.50 dollars, the paper reported.
Restrictions on imports of pigs and poultry in an attempt to limit the spread of avian influenza, or bird flu, combined with high petrol prices have pushed up the prices of more usual staples.
Cambodians in certain provinces have long caught rats as a protein source when rodent numbers reach a peak during the rice harvest and enjoy the meat roasted or dried as a snack while drinking.
Whereas a kilo of the best quality rat meat went for around 50 cents two years ago, it now fetches up to 1.50 dollars, the paper reported.
Restrictions on imports of pigs and poultry in an attempt to limit the spread of avian influenza, or bird flu, combined with high petrol prices have pushed up the prices of more usual staples.
Cambodians in certain provinces have long caught rats as a protein source when rodent numbers reach a peak during the rice harvest and enjoy the meat roasted or dried as a snack while drinking.
8 comments:
RAT MEAT MEETS RAT COUNTRY WITH RAT LEADERS IN ROTTEN-RAT COUNTRY.
WELCOMOE TO ROTTEN AND RAT COUNTRY -- CAMBODIA!
Cambodia food supply should be a national security issue! To have Cambodian people eat rats, tarantulas, crickets and who know maybe human will on the menu next... because of bird flu is excusable under AH HUN SEN Vietcong slave leadership!
AH HUN SEN Vietcong slave government has got to go! I am sickened tired of AH HUN SEN Vietcong slave leadership!
Man...if it taste good eat it and make money along the way for the poor!
How about funcinpec rats?
That was my job back in 1979. I was 18 living in Thmar Korl, Battambang province. I did this everyday with my brother for a year. Sometime we were lucky, we got snakes. When we got back home at night my mom took out rat's greese and made oil for sell and the reste....yeah I used to eat rats a lot.
Yeah!!!! quite a souvenir!!!! Here I am living in Canada over 25 years...makes me cry hearing this business.
Leo
GOOD RATS ARE GREAT MEAT -- BUT BAD RATS ARE DIFFERENT, AND THEY CAN BE A NEW NUISANCE AND REQUIRE LENGTHY HOSPITALIZATION AND RESULT IN OUTRAGEOUS MEDICAL BILLS, OR LEADING TO DEATH.
Bubonic Plague or the Black Death will hit Cambodia soon and destroy the whole Cambodian population back to the Stone Age! You eat is what you are!
http://www.insecta-inspecta.com/fleas/bdeath/
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/plague.htm
http://www.themiddleages.net/plague.html
http://www.giantmicrobes.com/us/products/blackdeath.html
CAMBODIANS ARE RATS AND DIRTY JUST LIKE RAT MEAT THEY EAT.
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