[where's_the_Outrage?]

This is not as bad as it seems. The “field” rats are normally taken at rice harvest from the field. I have watched the Thai’s collecting them. So these rats are grain fed, these are not the inner city thug rats eating garbage.

So most of the year I don't see them at local markets, but during rice harvest it becomes common at the village markets.

[shotgun]

Organic Rat meat

[ALongRoadAhead]

Beat me to it. Even the poor won’t eat trash rats because you’ll get so sick from them. But field rats are grain fed and free roaming and not only taste much better but also a lot less risk of getting ill!