Monday, September 01, 2008

Price Of Rat Meat Quadruples In Cambodia

August 31, 2008
By Robert Paul Reyes
Op-Ed Contributor
News Blaze (California, USA)

"The price of rat meat has quadrupled in Cambodia this year as inflation has put other meat beyond the reach of poor people, officials said on Wednesday." [ Reuters ]
It will be illuminating to deconstruct this excerpt from the Reuters article.

The two words "other meat" jump out at me. It's chilling how the Reuters writer casually compares a rat carcass to other meat like chicken or beef. Is this a harbinger of things to come in our own country; will we one day ask the butcher if the rat meat is fresh?

It's not a few homeless Cambodians who survive by eating rats, rat meat is so common that people anxiously keep track of its price.

Cambodians are so desperate that they are willing to pay through the nose for rat meat. Cambodians don't complain that they have to resort to eating rat meat, they complain because it's so expensive.

In America you are poor if you can't afford to buy a nice cut of New York Steak on a weekly basis; in Cambodia you are poor if you can only afford to buy rat meat.

At the risk of sounding politically-incorrect, let me declare that I will never dine at a Cambodian restaurant.

Robert Paul Reyes is a NewsBlaze writer on Politics, Pop Culture and Pointless Pontificating. Contact him by writing to NewsBlaze.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

It is so easy for Robert Paul Reyes to say what he want to say but when hit with the same reality and he will do the same thing such as eating rat meat just to survive or even eat human flesh just to survive!

By the way, Cambodia is still a war torn country and Cambodian people still live in very primitive way like those people live in Afghanistan and Africa!

Anonymous said...

I have to wonder and what is so different from eating chicken meat, beef, frog meat, fish meat, goat meat, am meat, dog meat, snake meat, crocodile meat, and rat meat....

May I remind Mr. Robert Paul Reyes that is some country such as India and they don't eat beef!

Fuck about being politically-incorrect!

Anonymous said...

Dear Editor,



I would like to thank Cambodia Mekong Bank, Canadia Bank, Singapore Banking Corporation (SBC Bank), and Union Commercial Bank (UCB) that cooperate with each other to increase ATM access to Cambodian people.



Cash-Out ATM can save a lot of time to Cambodian; however, Cash-In ATM is even more important to save Cambodian lives as people can put in money or cheque at ATMs after working hours which is not so new to other countries such as Canada with 30 million population.



Cash-in ATM is not only save life but also can bring happiness to thousand business people who worry about the increasing robberies in city.


Recently, some foreign exchange shop lock their doors leaving s small room for operating their businesses.


Whoever can bring Cash-In ATM first to Cambodia, they will be the hero in Cambodian ATM history.


Ana Nov

Anonymous said...

The price of rat are going up because the sucess story of keith meng and sun chanthol.

Anonymous said...

To 2:54PM


ahhahahhahahhahahaah!

You got me!

Anonymous said...

2:36 PM

Hey, shut the fuck up!

What are you trying to do?
Is this because of Mr. Hun Sen?

Now, shut the fuck up!

Remember, bitch, this is not the work of CPP, so, again, shut the fuck up!

Anonymous said...

Leave this mother-fucker 2:36 in rehab. mental hospital coz he really need doctor to cure his retardness!!!

You're just pathetic 2:36 ignore not accept what you see. Deep down your beloved govt. is for only Hun Sen, his associates and clans .....

You 2:36 can fool people at the countryside but with conscience and sympathy for the nation, you should feel extremely guilty of not contributing your so-called ability to help lift people out of miseries!!!!!!

Anonymous said...

The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. The rich eat KFC (from thailand) and the poor eat rat meat. I too blame kith meng and the ruling elite.

samrith