aside from being a nifty monty python sketch, eating rats is common in much of the world (including medieval england). not because of religious or ethnic tradition, but because it's all most can afford.so what does it tell you when even the rat meat in camboldia is too expensive for most of the peasants?
(and in case you're thinking, 'hey, well, they eat dogs and whatnot anyway there, right?', the biodiversity decline rate, coupled with the ever-accelerating pace of climate change, leads us to the following prediction: deep-fried rats here in the u.s. in let's say - oh - 40 years. with morlock politics no more than 25 years after that. have you seen our new chest freezer, by the way?)