Here are a few recipes you won't find in Martha Stewart Living! Sauteed rat with spring onion and herbs, steamed rat with lemon leaves, and ground rat meat chili! In the wake of bird flu epidemic, the Vietnamese have gotten inventive. Rat costs a third less than pork and tastes "delicious," according to somebody who tried it. The widening income gap is another trend to blame for this: rat's natural predators, cats and snakes, are increasingly being eaten up by the nation's fancy classes. [WSJ]

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