Two billion rats could be on the menu in China

LIVE rats are being trucked from central China, which is suffering a plague of a reported two billion rodents displaced by a flooded lake, to the south to end up in restaurant dishes.

Rats had been doing a roaring trade thanks to strong supply over the past two weeks, the China News Service quoted vendors as saying.

“Recently there have been a lot of rats... Guangzhou people are rich and like to eat exotic things, so business is very good,” it quoted a vendor as saying, referring to the capital of Guangdong province, where people are reputed to eat anything that moves.