Ugh! Big cargo of rotten Cambodian rats hits Thailand markets

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Ugh! Big cargo of rotten Cambodian rats hits Thailand markets
Thaivisa Reporters


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SA KAEO:-- Public health inspectors acting on a tip off intercepted a cargo of Cambodian rats headed for the markets of Thailand, reports Thaivisa News.

The cargo of rodents amounted to 200 kilograms of the chopped up variety and a total of 2,500 topped and tailed creatures that authorities said represented a serious risk to public health. They were on their way to the Rong Klua market in the area.

The rats were contained in a truck hidden behind empty bags of fertiliser. They were town rats and rats from sewers mixed up with field rats.

Experts on rats said that the field variety can be safely consumed if well done but it is not safe to eat town or sewer rats that consume dirty food and pass on a variety of diseases to humans including typhus.

A checkpoint had been set up near Aranyaprathet after Thai authorities received information that Cambodians in the Poi Pet market area were catching town rats and sewer rats and preparing them.

Health authorities were unable to separate the good field rats from the diseased ones so the entire lorry load had to be destroyed in a mobile incinerator used for such eventualities.

As far as the Cambodian "rats" who brought in the diseased rodents, unfortunately they managed to evade punishment and disappear back over the border.


-- 2016-03-30

[thesetat2013]

Great! So now people have to worry that perhaps the meat in their prepared food is not actually pork. Thailand is getting as bad as China.

[shirtless]

Why would Thailand need to import rats . there are so many here 4 legged and 2 legged variety.

[namatjira]

Oh nice....laap rat

[colinneil]

I dont give a rats ar.e about Cambodian rats or Thai rats.

I would never eat rat, or even allow my wife to eat the vermin.

[BSJ]

"The rats were contained in a truck hidden behind empty bags of fertiliser" Shouldn't that be 'The rats were contained in a truck hidden behind empty fertiliser bags'? My Thailish not so good!

[daoyai]

I dont give a rats ar.e about Cambodian rats or Thai rats.

I would never eat rat, or even allow my wife to eat the vermin.

Interesting attitude on a couple levels, first "vermin" (?) rats are just another animal from the natural world, the fact that they have adapted to human filthy cities does not reflect on their food quality if from cleaner environs. Secondly, you attempt to control what "your" wife is "allowed' to eat? says it all.

[piersbeckett]

I was saying to my missus only yesterday, there's nothing worse than an underdone field rat; seriously though, I'm pleased for rat eaters generally that the Cambodian rat importers were ratted on.

[Usual Suspect]

Another future market option here for CPC..?

[NeilSA1]

I dont give a rats ar.e about Cambodian rats or Thai rats.

I would never eat rat, or even allow my wife to eat the vermin.

Interesting attitude on a couple levels, first "vermin" (?) rats are just another animal from the natural world, the fact that they have adapted to human filthy cities does not reflect on their food quality if from cleaner environs. Secondly, you attempt to control what "your" wife is "allowed' to eat? says it all.

vermin

ˈvəːmɪn/

noun

1. wild animals which are believed to be harmful to crops, farm animals, or game, or which carry disease, e.g. rodents.
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   Rodent - definition of rodent by The Free Dictionary

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   The teeth grow throughout the animal's life, and gnawing keeps them from getting too long. Rodents make up about half the living species of mammals, and include rats, mice, beavers, squirrels, shrews, and hamsters.

[toybits]

You don't Understaaaand! This is like Pla Raa (fermented fish) but using Ratus ratus norvegicus.

[khwaibah]

Ah yes BBQ Rat.

[DoctorG]

Please enjoy your 30bt street stall food.

[AlQaholic]

Why do they need Cambodian rats? I've seen big rats in the streets of Bkk, why not eat them?

When I first came to Thailand I was puzzled by the absence of birds, no birds singing in the mornings, after asking turns out local farmers killed them all, nowadays their economy seems better because the birds can be heard singing in the mornings...

Edited March 30, 2016 by AlQaholic

[AlQaholic]

"The rats were contained in a truck hidden behind empty bags of fertiliser" Shouldn't that be 'The rats were contained in a truck hidden behind empty fertiliser bags'? My Thailish not so good!

Couldn't that mean that the bags where made of fertilizer?

'The rats were contained in a truck hidden behind empty plastic bags which purpose is to contain fertiliser'?

The rats were located inside a truck that was hidden behind empty bags made of unknown material, which alleged purpose was to contain fertilizer , not the truck but the bags....i.e. the purpose of the bags was to contain fertilizer, but at this point in time they were empty.

Edited March 30, 2016 by AlQaholic

[jacko45k]

Why do they need Cambodian rats? I've seen big rats in the streets of Bkk, why not eat them?

When I first came to Thailand I was puzzled by the absence of birds, no birds singing in the mornings, after asking turns out local farmers killed them all, nowadays their economy seems better because the birds can be heard singing in the mornings...

Thais do not like to do the job of catching them, so either import the catchers or the rats themselves.

Coincidentally saw a dead one by soi Nerm Plab Wan market yesterday, bigger than my cat!

On the path, not the stalls.

[Smiley Face]

Thailand eyes luxury tourists, operators say keep them safe

Luxury tourists expect that they will only eat clean rats, never contaminated rats! Thailand needs to do a better job of ensuring that tourists eat only the best rats that are available in Thailand. Besides who wants imported rats when the worlds best rats are Thai?

[SABloke]

"The rats were contained in a truck hidden behind empty bags of fertiliser" Shouldn't that be 'The rats were contained in a truck hidden behind empty fertiliser bags'? My Thailish not so good!

I'm trying to imagine a pile of bags big enough for a truck to hide behind

[northernphil]

"The rats were contained in a truck hidden behind empty bags of fertiliser" Shouldn't that be 'The rats were contained in a truck hidden behind empty fertiliser bags'? My Thailish not so good!

What was the truck doing hiding behind fertilizer bags ? Or couldn't you give a rat's ar$e ?

[GreasyFingers]

Just the other week we were at one of the family s' for dinner. Among other dishes there was bbq rat and fried chicken. They ate the rat and left the chicken.

[Kaalle]

I dont give a rats ar.e about Cambodian rats or Thai rats.

I would never eat rat, or even allow my wife to eat the vermin.

Any other foods she is forbidden to consume?

[ggt]

They should have packed them up and sent them to South Thailand to feed the animals who thrive down there...

[dotpoom]

Great! So now people have to worry that perhaps the meat in their prepared food is not actually pork. Thailand is getting as bad as China.

Would remind one of the "horse meat" scandal of about two years ago in many parts of Europe....amoung well known brand foods???

[ggt]

They should have boxed them up and sent them to the animals living in Southern Thailand....

[ChoakMyDee]

So that's why my order of rats is late?

[TPI]

"The rats were contained in a truck hidden behind empty bags of fertiliser" Shouldn't that be 'The rats were contained in a truck hidden behind empty fertiliser bags'? My Thailish not so good!

Couldn't that mean that the bags where made of fertilizer?

'The rats were contained in a truck hidden behind empty plastic bags which purpose is to contain fertiliser'?

The rats were located inside a truck that was hidden behind empty bags made of unknown material, which alleged purpose was to contain fertilizer , not the truck but the bags....i.e. the purpose of the bags was to contain fertilizer, but at this point in time they were empty.

Please, please, too early in the morning.........my brain hurts!

[chrisdodd]

I dont give a rats ar.e about Cambodian rats or Thai rats.

I would never eat rat, or even allow my wife to eat the vermin.

How do you know what's being prepared at an eatery...

[TPI]

Why do they need Cambodian rats? I've seen big rats in the streets of Bkk, why not eat them?

When I first came to Thailand I was puzzled by the absence of birds, no birds singing in the mornings, after asking turns out local farmers killed them all, nowadays their economy seems better because the birds can be heard singing in the mornings...

Thais do not like to do the job of catching them, so either import the catchers or the rats themselves.

Coincidentally saw a dead one by soi Nerm Plab Wan market yesterday, bigger than my cat!

On the path, not the stalls.

Thai's do not like killing things because they are very good Buddhists, that is why fish restaurants have Chinese cooks, the canny Thai's don't want the attached Karma! What! What about road deaths and killing girlfriends and killing yourself with drugs? Oh! That's different!!

[Hiyaall]

Nice... I'll take one well done. Very well done. Seriously a shipment of rotten rats for food is about the worst culinary story I have ever heard of. I'll eat a rat, but ummmm ill have to catch it on my own.

[nakhonandy]

Great! So now people have to worry that perhaps the meat in their prepared food is not actually pork. Thailand is getting as bad as China.

Would remind one of the "horse meat" scandal of about two years ago in many parts of Europe....amoung well known brand foods???

Bit of a difference between healthy horse meat and diseases rat I would think.

However both are indeed wrong.