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Are the rats inspected by the health dept the way other meat served to the public is inspected?A taste for rodents is hardly a new trend and goes back many centuries. Guinea pigs were the first rodents raised for food, in Peru back in 2500 BC 5. Rats were eaten in China during the Tang dynasty (618–907 AD) and called “household deer” 5. According to the authors, one speciality people ate during these times was new‐born rats stuffed with honey, “conveniently snatching them with chopsticks”.
Rodent meat – a sustainable way to feed the world? Using rodents as food has a long tradition in many parts of the world - PMC
The idea of rearing and eating rodents as “mini‐livestock” might sound unpalatable to many Westerners, but rodent meat has a long culinary tradition in other parts of the world and could become an important component of sustainable global ...pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Of course not
I doubt if the venders meet any of the health standards that NY City tax paying restaurants are held to