| NEW YORK | RUPEE NEWS | March 16th, 1996 | Isha Khan| The BBC reports that it is official Indian policy to urge her citizens to eat rats. The starving Indians may not have much of a choice. There is nothing else to eat in “Incredible India”. Perhaps rats would go well with the other Indian habit–drinking urine.

While India is spending $125 billion on the latest aircraft in her dreams to become a aircraft power, her penury stricken population is forced to eat rats. the planes will rust just like the flying coffins of the prestn age are rusted. However the progeny of starvation will continue to haunt the decision makes a century from now. The priorities of New Delhi are very strange. She has the money to throw away $3 Billion on an old Russian mohtballed Aircraft Carrier, but the country does not have money on a disease protection, poverty alleviation program for the penury stricken Biharis.

The much heralded Indian software industry only affects about 6 million people. The other 1 Billion are out there for fend for themselves. $41 Billion earned by the software engineers can only go so. spread over a population of 1 Billion it is simple less than .04 pennies per annum. Of course the money stays in the hands of about half a dozen billionaires. Per current growth rates, it will take India 3 centuries to improve the condition of her poor. South Asia remain the only island of poverty pushed into that corner by the sill spending of the New Delhi crooks who wage war on Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, Nepal and Pakistan but cannot take care of the poor.

World power status cannot be achieved by asking the population to eat rats.

A gift from the Gods to Hindus. Bottled Cow Urine. Story reported by Daily Telegraph of UK

Chilled Urine drinking hot in India. From Gandhi to PM Desai.

India’s poor urged to eat rats

Other news: Chilled Urine drinking hot in India. From Gandhi to PM Desai. http://rupeenews.com/2008/02/16/chilled-urine-drinking-hot-in-india-telegraph-reports/ It’s argued that rats are a good source of nutrition By Amarnath Tewary BBC News, Patna An official in the Indian state of Biharhas come up witha new idea to encourage low caste poor people to cope with food shortages – rat meat.   The Principal Secretary of the state’s Welfare Department, Vijay Prakash, said that he was advancing his proposal after “much survey and ground work”. Bihar’s extremely poor Musahar community are rat-eaters by tradition. The Musaharare on the bottom strata of the caste system with the lowest literacy rate and per capita income. Less than one percent of their 2.3 million population in Bihar is literate and 98% are landless. Delicacy Mr Prakash says his proposals to popularise rat meat eating are intended to uplift their social-economic condition. People now prefer to eat rat meat instead of chicken or goat as it comes cheaper and is more tasty and healthy Vijay Prakash “There are twin advantages of this proposal. First, we can save about half of our food grain stocks by catching and eating rats and secondly we can improve the economic condition of the Musahar community,” he told the BBC. According to Mr Prakash, about 50% of total food grain stocks in the country are eaten away by rodents. He argues that by promoting rat eating more grain will be preserved while hunger among the Musahar community will be reduced. He said that rat meat is not only a delicacy but a protein-enriched food, widely popular in Thailand and France. “Rats have almost no bones and are quite rich in nutrition. People at large don’t know this cuisine fact but gradually they are catching up.” However he may find it difficult to popularise such a strategy in a conservative society like Bihar and other north Indian states. Mr Prakash says that he has recipes to make rat eating a delicacy, which he now wants to distribute to all the hotels in Bihar. He also wants to encourage rat farming in the same way that poultry is farmed. While eating rat meat is still stigmatised in urban areas of the country, Mr Prakash says that his research has revealed that it is a popular food item in some parts of Bihar where it is known at roadside hotels by the name of “patal-bageri”. This is not the first time that the department secretary has come out with such an innovative idea. Earlier, he proposed to recruit eunuchs as security guards to maternity wards in hospitals. “Yes, that proposal is in its advance stage and we’ll very soon engage them in various social activities of our department,” he said. And the welfare secretary’s next plan? “I’ll make snake catching popular for the economic value of its venom,” he said.

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