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8/28/2014

Topic Reading-Vol.869-8/28/2014

Dear MEL School’s Topic Readers,
Cambodian rat meat: A growing export market
Smart farmers they are. After harvesting their rice, they catch rice that have been eating roots and rice. But why don’t those rice farmers try to catch such crop-eating rats before their rice harvest? It’s because while they are growing rice, they are also feeding rats to harvest them.
Do they eat the rats? No. They catch them to sell, but not for the Cambodian’s stomach but for the Vietnamese’s. So, it’s for export.
Unlike rats in the town, rats in the rice field are clean as they live in the rice field and eat only roots and rice. It tastes like chicken. Vietnamese people seem to enjoy the delicacy and the demand is rising. So the rice farmers in Cambodia become busy catching and selling them to the traders.
Those farmers say the meat is clean and tasty but they still don’t eat it. Will you try to taste it?
Enjoy reading and learning about this interesting side business of the rice farmers in Cambodia.


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