I was shocked after reading this news that Indian poor people urged to eat rats, because rats are easily available for them. This news was published by Amarnath Tewary inBBC News, Patna onWednesday, 13 August 2008.
Vijay Prakash who was the Principal Secretary of the state’s Welfare Department said that he was advancing his proposal after “much survey and ground work”, that Bihar’s extremely poor Musahar community are rat-eaters by tradition.The Musahar are on the bottom strata of the caste system with the lowest literacy rate and per capita income. Less than one percent of their 2.3 million population in Bihar is literate and 98% are landless.
People now prefer to eat rat meat instead of chicken or goat as it comes cheaper and is more tasty and healthy - Vijay Prakash
Mr Prakash says his proposals to popularise rat meat eating are intended to uplift their social-economic condition. “There are twin advantages of this proposal. First, we can save about half of our food grain stocks by catching and eating rats and secondly we can improve the economic condition of the Musahar community,” he told the BBC.
According to Mr Prakash, about 50% of total food grain stocks in the country are eaten away by rodents.
Mr Prakash says that he has recipes to make rat eating a delicacy, which he now wants to distribute to all the hotels in Bihar.
He also wants to encourage rat farming in the same way that poultry is farmed.
While eating rat meat is still stigmatised in urban areas of the country, Mr Prakash says that his research has revealed that it is a popular food item in some parts of Bihar where it is known at roadside hotels by the name of “patal-bageri“.
Here I would like to mention that in September 2001,Julian West in New Delhi wrote an article about cow’s urine. We all know that in Hindu Religion cow is just like their so called mothers (goddess).
HINDU nationalists in India have launched a marketing exercise to promote cow’s urine as a health cure for ailments ranging from liver disease to obesity and even cancer.
The urine, which is being sold under the label “Gift of the Cow“, is being enthusiastically promoted by the government of Gujarat, one of three states in India dominated by Hindu nationalists.
The urine is collected daily from almost 600 shelters for rescued and wounded cattle set up by the Vishwa Hindu Parisad (VHP), or World Council of Holy men, as part of a government cow-protection programme to save the country’s sacred, but often maltreated, beasts.
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