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Just watched this and found out (Warning contains really gross stuff)

posted 8 years ago by demongermanshepherd
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two things I didn't know about rats and Asia.

In Cambodia they trap rats in the rural area and sell them to a guy who sells them to one or more Vietnamese restaurants that cook them as traditional food. The woman cook said "rats taste like a sweet version of chicken." At some Buddhist temple (I can't remember the country) they let the rats scurry upon their food and eat with them because they are reincarnated family members. A guy even drank milk with rats being all around it.

Meanwhile in New Orleans, LA USA scientists for the CDC are catching live rats and giving and quickly kill them for study by taking many different parasites out of them that can cause major diseases for humans and catalog them.

[–] wildj7 8 years ago

I was interested in watching this.

But after reading your post, I don't think I can stomach it.

[–] seth-shaw23 8 years ago

It's actually a pretty interesting look at rats, but it's scored like a horror film and contains some pretty disgusting information. So informative, but a little gross.

[–] lantzn 7 years ago

I've prepped many animals for eating on my grandfathers farm growing up. The worse part of this for me was the English terriers fighting over a rat and the Indian exterminator who uses his fingers as a rat rack.

[–] mklein52 8 years ago

Watched the rat documentary. The rats captured in Cambodia and sold to Vietnamese restaurants, not Korean.

[–] demongermanshepherd 7 years ago

"Watched the rat documentary. The rats captured in Cambodia and sold to Vietnamese restaurants, not Korean."

I wasn't paying much attention and couldn't remember what country they said. I edited this in my post. Thank you.

[–] beersandshots 7 years ago

At some Buddhist temple (I can't remember the country) they let the rats scurry upon their food and eat with them because they are reincarnated family members. A guy even drank milk with rats being all around it.

That was the Karni Mata Temple, a Hindu temple in Rajasthan, India.

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telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
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