“Potentially Unsafe” Rat Meat is Being Sold Illegally in London Marketplaces

Just in time to kill your appetite, Eastern Daylight Time zone dwellers. ;)

African Cane rat, before being de-haired prior to cooking

After cooking. Actually looks pretty good; kinda like BBQ chicken… ;)

File this away under things you didn’t want to know first thing Monday morning: a reportedly “shocking” quantity of bushmeat — including rat [...] — is being sold to the public illegally in east London marketplaces.

BBC’s Guy Lynn reports on the unsettling findings of a recent undercover investigation:

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Two African food stores have sold bush meat such as “grass cutter” or cane rats, which are described as having been imported from Ghana where they are a delicacy.

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