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Sensationalist garbage that should be fed to rats


Morgan Spurlock is grasping at straws with this one. Totally unobjective, sensationalist look meant to insight fear.

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Unobjective?

Did they not interview enough rats for you, to get their side of the story?

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Unobjective? He showed cultures that view rats as disease laden carriers of sickness and death, or as food, or as reincarnated family members. That's pretty much the definition of an objective documentary.

“I don't think that word means what you think that word means.”


"In a time of universal deceit,
telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
George Orwell

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Do you know what objective means? It doesn't mean playing horror music when you're displaying something, kinda the opposite of that, really.

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Fark that. I had a mouse problem and that non toxic crap just don't work. I had to go with 5 different brands of traps, sticky baits and poison that cost over $100 just to get rid of the little farkers. It near impossible to seal off your entire house when it come close to winter. YOU don't need to have any food out. They can survive off the cellulose from paper and drippings from a sweaty water pipe.

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When it comes to mice my best defense over many years was to have a good "mouser" in the house, I've had many cats and the best ones that did the job were usually the brown tabby variety. We currently have a ragdoll cat which is so dumb she brings mice into the house and releases them right in front of us. I guess she's being proud. What a dummy.

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I have lived in South Florida for ~30 years and only can say the film is valid. (Perhaps except for the Indian rat worship temple.) After a nuclear winter, deep impact asteroid or some other cataclysm, the rats and cockroaches will be alive and well. As they are now.



He killed sixteen Czechoslovakians. Guy was an interior decorator.

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that's because both rats and cockroaches play a more fundamental and needed role in the ecosystem than any human alive.
anything claiming they are anything but an important part of the ecosystem isnt even hogwash, hogs need a good wash, those are incredibly useful, this is just more *beep* keeping humans afraid of things that need not be.

a major problem is that cities and building tend to force rats into places they are not meant to be, if cities were planned to have safe places for rodents to stay between forages, there would be next to no problems. instead humans keep trying to force everything away from us except our exact kind of preferred human being and cry when the ecosystem breaks down around us.

animals like rats take care of our waste, our animal's waste, larger animal waste, then roaches and other bugs take care of that waste, and so on, and so on.


rats are among the sweetest animals i have ever interacted with or raised, and i've done quite a few from farm animals to pets. one spent a week outside by herself and came back in to her cage, she helped me out with chores from then on till she passed. another got so depressed by her sister's passing she stayed in box left out for their outside cage play naps i had under my bed, for several weeks she only came out for food and water, i thought it was the box, put it in her cage for her...and this little things, which was old and only had 3 good legs, was pulling so damn hard at that box, trying to make it fit through her door even though it wouldnt, she tried pivoting and pushing, and every step was a struggle for this thing, so i put her box back where it was and she kissed my hand, then went back to her box and curled right up. under my bed was their favourite place to play. it was the largest open space they could run around on.
i've seen rats near the brink of death push themselves up and crawl towards me to say hello, i mean hours within a very painful death.

i've raised many, many animals, almost none have touched me as much as those little pups.

fancy rats like i've raised are barely changed from their wild counterparts, significantly less than dogs have been, and we have so little to fear from wolves, if we never feared them to begin with nature would even be much better for it. if alligator gar hadnt been hunted to extinction then maybe the snakeheadfish would have a predator. if rats disappeared then something they hunt and managed the population of would rise up and take their place, likely creating even more problems.

cow/oxen, dog, rat, cockroach, are the directly most important animals in the world to human survival that i know of.

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Thankfully, self-loathing human-hating scum such as yourself are in the minority. Get off the Internet and go live in the sewers with your disgusting friends.

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To be fair there is quite a BIG difference between the wild rat and the domesticated fancy rat. The fancy rats, which we have had many as pets, are breed to remove any agressive or other bad traits over many decades. The difference is like having a loveable golden retriever verses a wild dingo in the house. No comparison. But I agree after having many types of animals as pets, the domesticated fancy rats are some of the most intelligent, lovable and funny fellows.

Side note is the fancy rats were originally bred from the brown rat (Rattus norvegicus)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_rat

The other variety is the black rat (Rattus rattus)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_rat#

Comparison Chart
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_rat#/media/File%3AComparison_Black_Rat_Brown_Rat_EN.svg


** No scary horror or religious ritual music was played during this educational reading.

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Morgan Spurlock is grasping at straws with this one. Totally unobjective, sensationalist look meant to insight fear.


Completely 100% agree.

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Thought it was a pretty well done movie, although I'm biased because after dealing with a rat problem I've grown to hate them immensely. Like some one else said, they don't really need a food source; I've seen them live off anything they can find between your walls, including the walls themself.

I have a friend in New York that constantly told me how his house has so many rats so killing them is basically a game to him. I always thought he was kidding...after seeing this movie though I totally believe him.

Interesting and well made movie. I think any of each enough dislikes it is just trying too hard to defend rats because they like them as pets or something. Also I guess it's a tough watch since you see a lot of killing, especially the India scenes where they break their necks or bash them into the ground.

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Yes. I'm not denying there is a problem with rats but this was downright depressing (and interesting, at the same time). It seemed to reflect rats against humans and the director passed up an opportunity to expand on that more effectively.

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