Coming to a Soup Kitchen Near You?

Lordy.  Given the whizz-poor ability to address the social problems that create homelessness here in our own country, is it just a matter of time before our stalwart and (heavy sarcastic emphasis) ever-innovative government officials in charge of homeless services begin trying to convince us that rat meat is a fine "delicacy" and folks on the street should feel privileged to eat it?

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Impoverished Indians are being encouraged to eat rat meat to cope with food shortages
Geographical 80.11 (Nov 2008): p11(1). (76 words)


Impoverished Indians are being encouraged to eat rat meat to cope with food shortages. Vijay Prakash of Bihar state's welfare department, has encouraged the low-caste Musahar community to eat the delicacy, which, he says, is nutritious and has few bones. Prakash told BBC News that his proposal will have two advantages: increasing the economic condition of the Musahar community and shrinking the rat population, which he says is consuming around half of the state's grain stocks.