July 12, 2007
Not your run-of-the-mill rat race
Forget Ratatouille, this is the real thing: an estimated 2 billion field mice are on the run in the areas surrounding Dongting Lake (洞庭湖) in Hunan province. The mass migration was caused by the flooding of the Yangtze River in late June. Since then, as you can see from the news report in the video, people have been busy trying to control the mice by both erecting walls and barriers and also by trying to kill them. However, according to reports they've only managed to exterminate 2.25 million of them (or 90 tons of mice), a mere 1/1000 of the total.
You can see lots of news reports and follow-ups (in Chinese) here.
The great irony, of course, is that while there are 2 billion mice on the loose, people are still capturing and eating cats. Check out the video, people are using shovels to kill mice—but why not let some of those captured cats help out? Cats can see in the dark, whereas humans need electricity to power lights so that they can see where they are aiming their shovels, and also because being surrounded by millions of mice in the dark would probably scare most of us shitless.
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The mice & rats are all fleeing the sinking China.
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China won't be able to produce food for its large population anymore. They should process those rats and use them for food instead of further destroying the planet by poisoning them. I thought the saying "what goes around comes around" came from China?
China won't be able to produce food for its large population anymore. They should process the rats and used them for food instead of further destroying the environment by poisoning them. I thought the saying "what goes around comes around" came from China?
Isn't there some old Chinese saying about how natural disasters signal that heaven is no longer going to support the empire? I think its pretty accurate here. We've got plagues (SARS, rural AIDS), and plagues of vermin. When are the people going to wake up?
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/editor/article.asp?id=359
hehe~let's see
Good idea to make it a food business. Now the priority is to turn those rats into delicious cuisine.Such as Kong-Pao rats(not chicken),fish-flavor mice...etc.
Let's face it in a more positive way,it's a good thing?isn't it? The food price rose over 10% this year,so God brings gifts to us.
You can see a lot of wild food,they are natural and with no polution, healthy and organic food.
If 5 cent profit for a mouce, then how much we will get....It's really sth BIG!