Rat meat for sale (Photo: Reuters)Rat has become the food of choice amongst poor Cambodians
Tuesday April 14,2009
By Greg Newcombe Daily Express (UK)
THE price of rat meat has quadrupled in Cambodia as the credit crunch continues to take a stranglehold on the country’s economy.
Thousands of poor families are being forced to tuck into rat after inflation put other meats out of their price range.
Officials said demand for the rodents has caused the price to soar to around 86 pence (5,000 riel) per kilogram, from just 1,200 riel last year.
Locals are enjoying a spicy field rat dish with garlic as beef would now set them back 20,000 riel a kilogram.
Officials said that rats had become easier for villagers to catch as they flee to higher ground from flooded areas of the lower Mekong Delta.
"Many children are happy making some money from selling the animals to the markets, but they keep some for their family," said Ly Marong an agriculture official from the Koh Thom district of Cambodia.
Tuesday April 14,2009
By Greg Newcombe Daily Express (UK)
THE price of rat meat has quadrupled in Cambodia as the credit crunch continues to take a stranglehold on the country’s economy.
Thousands of poor families are being forced to tuck into rat after inflation put other meats out of their price range.
Officials said demand for the rodents has caused the price to soar to around 86 pence (5,000 riel) per kilogram, from just 1,200 riel last year.
Locals are enjoying a spicy field rat dish with garlic as beef would now set them back 20,000 riel a kilogram.
Officials said that rats had become easier for villagers to catch as they flee to higher ground from flooded areas of the lower Mekong Delta.
"Many children are happy making some money from selling the animals to the markets, but they keep some for their family," said Ly Marong an agriculture official from the Koh Thom district of Cambodia.
8 comments:
This is Hun Sen win win policy.
Wow, that is disgusting!
wild rat is not domestic rats. they are like game meat. lots of protein and no hormones or other chemical additives.
"no hormones or other chemical additives."
Except those rats that die from eating poison chemical farmers used to protect their rice fields.
1:43AM there is no suchthing as domestic rats, exept the CPP to the Vietnamese!
After the field rats, Next is the domestic!
Be ready ah One Eye Rat Hun Xen!!!!!!!!!
all I have to say is "ShamWOW"
Oh well! This is the success of our Strong man Hun Sen after 30 years of his rule! This is HunSenconomic 101 applying to the real world under Vietcong guidance! Dirt poor Cambodian people are forced to eat rat just to stay alive!
This is hell on Earth!
well, i guess it organic protein, no chemical, no pun intended; the legacy of starvation during the KR era. anyway, well, some people just buy them to feed to their crocodile, dogs, cats, the zoo animals, etc... plus, these are rice paddy rats, not your dirty sewage rats like the one we see in the sewage system in new york, london, bangcock, etc... these are rice-fed rats that live in the countryside of cambodia and eat the farmers' rice crop; that's why people hunt them. oh, don't be surprised, people eat them in vietnam (srok youn) and some other part of the world as well, not just cambodia. me, personal (i'm khmer too), i wouldn't eat rats in this day and age; however, i like to eat tarantula, coco cricket and a lot of other edible insects, though. and no dog and cat meats for me either. than you and god bless cambodia.
That's Hun Sen's regime.
Post a Comment