Posted by Goodenergy on September 3, 2008, 12:00 pm
Robin Speer
August 20, 2008
Theres an interesting story gaining some traction in Canada this
week.
According to Reuters, officials in India are encouraging people to eat
rats instead of rice to alleviate some food shortage concerns. But
thats not the most intriguing part:
Eating of rats will serve twin purposes it will save grains from
being eaten away by rats and will simultaneously increase our grain
stock, Vijay Prakash, an official from the states welfare
department, told Reuters.
Officials say almost 50 percent of Indias food grains stocks are
eaten away by rodents in fields or warehouses.
The story has been picked up by the Canadian media. Heres some
commentary from Kevin Hursh that runs on the daily ag radio in western
Canada:
Its estimated that nearly 50 per cent of Indias grain stocks are
eaten by rodents, either in the field or when the crop is being stored
in warehouses. According to a report this week by Reuters news
service, authorities in Bihar, one of Indias poorest states, are
calling on everyone to eat rats. There are even plans to offer rats on
restaurant menus. Rat meat is already eaten by some people in India.
The Bihar government argues that more people dining on rats will lower
human consumption of grain. Plus, there will be fewer rats to eat
grain. Cultural differences pertaining to animals and food are
amazing. Depending upon your faith, you may not eat pork or you may
not eat beef. Most people in North America are turned off by the idea
of eating dogs and horses because theyre companion animals. The
aversion to rats is because theyre dirty rodents. It is an amazing
statistic though that nearly 50 per cent of the grain in India is
destroyed by rodents. Makes you wonder why there are so many people
who obsess about the amount of grain used to produce biofuels. Im
Kevin Hursh.
http://www.goodfuels.org/2008/08/rats-not-rice/
Posted by Vaughn Simon on September 3, 2008, 12:59 pm
> Makes you wonder why there are so many people
>who obsess about the amount of grain used to produce biofuels.
The connection of this story to biofuels is apparently more obvious to you
than it is to me. Please expand on your idea a bit.
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Posted by amdx on September 4, 2008, 9:50 am
> According to Reuters, officials in India are encouraging people to eat
> rats instead of rice to alleviate some food shortage concerns. But
> that's not the most intriguing part:
> It's estimated that nearly 50 per cent of India's grain stocks are
> eaten by rodents, either in the field or when the crop is being stored
> in warehouses. According to a report this week by Reuters news
> service, authorities in Bihar, one of India's poorest states, are
> calling on everyone to eat rats. There are even plans to offer rats on
> restaurant menus.
This could be a problem, if the government program succeeds in inducing
the populace to eat more rats, there could be a rat shortage. Some
entrepreneur
will start a rat farm to produce and grow rats. He will breed rats that grow
fast
and grow large. Then to increase profits he will create a market for rat
milk. The
technology for this was developed years ago, see;
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/mags/MechanixIllustrated/12-1947/mouse_milk/mouse_milk_0.jpg
The end result is there will be a shortage of grain to feed the rats.
Or not, Mike ;-)
Posted by amdx on September 4, 2008, 10:07 am
> >
>> According to Reuters, officials in India are encouraging people to eat
>> rats instead of rice to alleviate some food shortage concerns. But
>> that's not the most intriguing part:
>>
>>
>>
>> It's estimated that nearly 50 per cent of India's grain stocks are
>> eaten by rodents, either in the field or when the crop is being stored
>> in warehouses. According to a report this week by Reuters news
>> service, authorities in Bihar, one of India's poorest states, are
>> calling on everyone to eat rats. There are even plans to offer rats on
>> restaurant menus.
> This could be a problem, if the government program succeeds in inducing
> the populace to eat more rats, there could be a rat shortage. Some
> entrepreneur
> will start a rat farm to produce and grow rats. He will breed rats that
> grow fast
> and grow large. Then to increase profits he will create a market for rat
> milk. The
> technology for this was developed years ago, see;
>
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/mags/MechanixIllustrated/12-1947/mouse_milk/mouse_milk_0.jpg
> The end result is there will be a shortage of grain to feed the rats.
> Or not, Mike ;-)
Celebrities have already started publicizing the idea!
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://regmedia.co.uk/2007/11/20/viva_billboard.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/20/rat_milk_plan/&h01&w `0&szb&hl=en&start&um=1&usg=__lBJCrIl0pThtaJ12p4VsCBa9VLQ=&tbnid=iq0v3RrSFpWoNM:&tbnhh&tbnw5&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmilking%2Brats%26start%3D72%26ndsp%3D18%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1G1GGLQ_ENUS285%26sa%3DN
Mike
Posted by Morris Dovey on September 4, 2008, 10:27 am
amdx wrote:
> Celebrities have already started publicizing the idea!
I can hear it now: Rat-a-roni and Cream of Rat - Mmm mmm good!
Supersize that?
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Morris Dovey
DeSoto Solar
DeSoto, Iowa USA
http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto/
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>who obsess about the amount of grain used to produce biofuels.