Rats: Beat ‘em, Eat ‘em
In a story that seems straight out of a Terry Pratchett novel, a politician in India is encouraging people to eat rats. According to Vijay Prakash, doing so would benefit not just the bottom-tier Musahar caste he suggests eat rodents - an abundant and hitherto-untapped source of free or very cheap food - but also the rest of the country, by helping control the rat population, and thereby preserving the country’s grain stocks - half of which, apparently, gets eaten by rodents every year.
It’s brilliant, kind of: Kill two birds with one stone, and everyone benefits - except, I guess, the rats.
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