Charles Brown wrote:
How Wealth Creates Poverty in the World
. Attracts vermin too! Super rats! Guardian, Tuesday September 19 2006 Patrick Barkham Reports are coming in of giant rats that are immune to poison and have lost their fear of man. Is a new breed evolving on Britain's rubbish-strewn streets? Patrick Barkham investigates .
The super rat has evolved thanks to all this dining from the table of man. As people pile high the KFC leftovers and Indian takeaways, and toss away half-eaten megaburgers when their stomachs can't take any more abuse, our ratty friends acquire a symbiotic addiction to rubbishy food. According to Martina Flynn of Sorex, whose scientists have developed three of the four main pest-control chemicals, rodents have become so used to munching protein-heavy fast foods in certain urban centres that they refuse to eat the carbohydrates and cereal traditionally used as bait or poison.
. http://environment.guardian.co.uk/waste/story/0,,1875808,00.html
