Eat more ratones! http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93585701&ft=1&f=3 I guess there might be something to this. Before my friend Ernie passed away, he told me of eating rats while on tour of duty in Vietnam. He said they mainly ate rice, so they actually tasted good. I guess when you are in the jungle for a long time, you eat whatever is around. Abner
Delicioso! I dated a chinese women who once cooked dog. I thought I heard her say she was cooking duck. Strange since the "duck" had a thick hide filled with bones. Asking her over and over again, my ex confirmed that she was in fact cooking "duck". After I took a few of bites, my taste buds were suspicious of this meat. I took great care in making sure that she heard "Duck". She corrected me by saying dog! LOL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVD1JeMR5HA
To keep this thread distance learning relevant. If you are interested working with animals, especially horses, the University of Guelph offers a online Certificate in Equine Business Management. http://www.equinebusinesscertificate.com/ Here is an interesting article about a zoo that has engaged in distance education. I found this interesting and pertinent to those involved in veterinary medicine. "The zoo recently worked with Cisco® Premier Certified Partner Total Systems Integration (TSI) to expand the program's capabilities beyond the confining walls of the Zoo's two video studios. By utilizing Cisco advanced technology, the Zoo's learning center can bring the video studio to many areas within the 168-acre park and broadcast in vivid detail, overlooking an animal habitat." "The distance learning program at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo has typically been at the forefront of video technology, but its broadcast capabilities have been limited to two specific studio locations within the Zoo." http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/partners/success_stories/2007/pss_04-05.html
I killed a rat But I wouldn't to eat it, unless I was starving I guess. :smile: My friend Ernie told me they taste might good when there is no other food available, and you eat whatever you eat.'' in the junglel
Is it just a cooincidence that you are posting this, when you yourself have a rat problem? Is this your next line of defense? ------ Ok, joke aside, let me just say that this is a TERRIBLE idea :smashfreakB: I'm not saying this because "eeew it's gross". There are in fact many primitive tribes living in jungles that subsist just fine on rats- they're not an unhealthy as food so long as they are not unhealthy while alive. This is a bad idea because the rats that live in the jungle live outdoors in the same conditions as other animals one would consider as food. The rats that infest human civilization are unsanitary, sharing living quarters with mold, cockroaches and bacterial breeding grounds. They consume things you'd then be consuming yourself if you ate them. Think about it. Would you ever want to eat a rat that had just filled it's belly with sewer water, road kill, antifreeze and rodenticide? That's beyond gross, it's dangerous. Still... EEW!!!!!!!! Yeah, I had to let that one out :icon16:
I would never eat a rat myself. But my friend Ernie was in Vietnam as a soldier. He said they would catch these huge rats that lived off of the rice paddies. So, he being hungry, would trap them and eat them, seeing as there were to fast food joints around back then. Plus, sometimes you might not eat for days in the jungle. Rats gross me out personally. But when you are starving, you eat what you catch I guess.
