maybe they could sell them at a slight loss to a warehouser that would do the skinning, like for 40c.
Keith Addison wrote: > Yo Tek > > Wouldn't want to endanger your chickens by stealing their lunch to > make BD! Seriously, you can buy roast rat at restaurants in Bangkok. > Different rat though, not those grey sewer jobs, brown bushrats > mostly that have invaded the cities. We were infested with them at > the Beach House in Hong Kong, quite cute, nice animals, not at all > disgusting. Came down from the adjoining mountain. Trouble was they > were taking over, and apart from their staple diet of fruit and > veggies they also had a taste for electrical wiring. I lost patience > when they ate our washing machine. I killed maybe 80 of them after > that. We didn't get round to eating any though. :-) > > Then there's the roast dog at the restaurants in Shenzhen... Naah, > another time. > > Rat pelts, skaar? You mean they'd have to skin them? Might be a bit > of a disincentive. > > Best > > Keith Addison > Journey to Forever > Handmade Projects > Tokyo > http://journeytoforever.org/ > > > > >that's not rat, that's NYC Chicken ;-) > > > >--- In biofuel@egroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > 50cents for every rat pelt brought in would get a lot of homeless > > > involved. > > > > > > Keith Addison wrote: > > > > > > > Check out the last two paragraphs below. > > > > > > > > Keith Addison > > > > Journey to Forever > > > > Handmade Projects > > > > Tokyo > > > > http://journeytoforever.org/ > > > > > > > > > > > > November 29, 2000 > > > > New York City Ponders Rat Problem > > > > > > > > A.P. INDEXES: TOP STORIES | NEWS | SPORTS | BUSINESS | > TECHNOLOGY > >| > > > > ENTERTAINMENT > > > > > > > > By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS > > > > Filed at 5:30 p.m. ET > > > > NEW YORK (AP) -- Some big cheeses held a summit Wednesday at > >Columbia > > > > University on how to get rid of the rats that seem to be > >overrunning > > > > New York City. > > > > ``Twenty years ago this city had a concerted effort to fight > >rats,'' > > > > rat expert Randy Dupree said somewhat wistfully. ``That stopped, > > >and > > > > now we've seen a burgeoning of the rodent population. What we > >need is > > > > everyone to join in on a war on rats.'' > > > > About 250 rat-weary citizens turned out for the Rat Summit, at > >which > > > > academics, health officials, politicians and bureaucrats focused > > >on > > > > Public Enemy No. 1 -- Rattus norvegicus, commonly known as the > > > > Norwegian rat. > > > > ``Rat rage'' appears to be on the rise in New York. At a recent > >rally > > > > on the steps of City Hall, demonstrators chanted such slogans > as, > > > > ``One rat, two rat, three rats, four, everywhere I look there's > >more > > > > and more.'' > > > > The city now has two official rat hot lines and a new City > Council > > > > committee that focuses specifically on vermin, and Mayor Rudolph > > >W. > > > > Giuliani has designated an official as the city's ``rat czar.'' > > > > ``We make unprecedented efforts to kill rats,'' Giuliani said. > >``We > > > > kill more of them than any place else. We probably lead the > >country > > > > in rat killing.'' > > > > City Councilman Bill Perkins proposed banning the city's > wire-mesh > > > > trash receptacles because they make it easy for rats to get to > the > > > > garbage. > > > > Deputy Mayor Joseph Lhota, the rat czar, urged everyone to be > more > > > > sanitary. > > > > Bruce Colvin, who works as a consultant on rats, said estimates > >of 8 > > > > million rats in the city are almost certainly exaggerated, as > are > > > > tales about about foot-long monsters roaming the sewers and > coming > > > > out at night to feed on stray cats and lost puppies. > > > > To control rats, Colvin insisted, New York should not focus on > > > > killing rodents by placing packets of poison in abandoned lots > >and on > > > > subway tracks, but should instead concentrate on eliminating the > > > > > animals' food, particularly grease from restaurants. > > > > ``For rats, grease is a high-protein food source,'' he said. > ``It > > > > allows them to kick up their sex drive. You know the rest.'' > > > eGroups Sponsor [Corbis - The Place for Pictures Online] > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > To unsubscribe, send an email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
