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Forget Horse Meat Or Fake Tuna, Rat Meat is Being Sold As Lamb In China
Submitted by Michael Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
It seems as if those engaged in food fraud just want to keep escalating their game. First we were horrified by horse meat and fake tuna, then dog meat, but now it’s gotten worse. Much worse. In China, the food fraudsters have take things to an entirely new level by mixing rat, fox and mink meat with gelatin additives and passing it off as lamb. You may want to avoid that food cart next time you’re in Shanghai. From The Washington Post:
BEIJING — Chinese police have broken up a criminal ring accused of taking meat from rats and foxes and selling it as lamb in the country’s latest food safety scandal.
The Ministry of Public Security released results of a three-month crackdown on food safety violators, saying in a statement that authorities investigated more than 380 cases and arrested 904 suspects.
Among those arrested were 63 people who allegedly ran an operation in Shanghai and the coastal city of Wuxi that bought fox, mink, rat and other meat that had not been tested for quality and safety, processed it with additives like gelatin and passed it off as lamb.
The announcement came as China’s top court on Friday issued guidelines calling for harsher punishment for making and selling unsafe food products in the latest response to tainted food scandals that have angered the public.
The supreme court said 2,088 people have been prosecuted in 2010-2012 in 1,533 food safety cases. It said the number of such cases has grown exponentially in the past several years. For example, Chinese courts prosecuted 861 cases of poisonous food in 2012, compared to 80 cases in 2010.
“We cannot tolerate it any longer. We must punish the criminals severely, or we cannot answer to our people,” Pei said.
Punish criminals? I don’t undertand. In the U.S. we’d probably promote them to top positions at the FDA.
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hmm, euphemism?
or fetish?
Time for a shipment of vermin from Wall St & The City of London.........
A tourist wanders into a back-alley antique shop in San Francisco's Chinatown. Picking through the objects on display he discovers a detailed bronze sculpture of a rat. The sculpture is so interesting and unique that he picks it up and asks the shop owner the price.
"Twelve dollars for the rat, sir," says the shop owner, "and an extra thousand for the story behind it."
"At that price, you can keep the story, old man," he replies, "but I'll take the bronze rat."
The transaction complete, the tourist leaves the store with the bronze rat under his arm. As he crosses the street in front of the store, two live rats emerge from a sewer drain and fall into step behind him.
Nervously looking over his shoulder, he begins to walk faster, but every time he passes another sewer, more rats come out and follow him. By the time he's walked two blocks, at least a hundred rats are at his heels, and people begin to point and shout. He walks even faster, and soon breaks into a trot as multitudes of rats swarm from sewers, basements, vacant lots, and abandoned cars... following him.
Rats by the thousands are at his heels, and as he sees the waterfront at the bottom of the hill he panics and starts to run full tilt.
No matter how fast he runs, the rats keep up, squealing hideously now not just thousands but millions, so that by the time he comes racing to the water's edge a trail of rats twelve blocks long is behind him.
Making a mighty leap, he jumps up onto a lamp post, grasping it with one arm, while he hurls the bronze rat into San Francisco Bay as far as he can throw it.
Pulling his legs up and clinging to the post, he watches in amazement as the seething tide of rats surges over the breakwater into the sea, where they drown.
Shaken and mumbling, he makes his way back to the antique shop.
"Ah sir, you've come back for the story," says the owner.
"No," says the tourist, "I was just hoping you had a bronze sculpture of a banker"
I thought the end of the story would be that the sculpture winds up in Manhattan. Whatever happened to all those rats when Sandy hit?
Long rat-atouille.
Dude in my speech class from Malaysia ate bat meat. He did it as a dare so he said.
I think you can eat that stuff if it is not poisoned in some way. I've eaten a few ants in my time.
The FDA has allowable levels of cockroach parts and ants in grains, so you've eaten them both if you eat bread or pasta, know it or not...
I've got an old NY Times Cookbook, very good book actually, but one of the recipes is Indonesian Fruit Bat Soup. Things are about the size of a small cat. If I remember right recipe called for throwing the whole damn thing in there, nuts, guts and feathers as my dad used say.
YUM / iRat
p.s. Those would either be promoted to FDA or found liable for millions in damage. There is nothing in the middle.
p.s.s. Mink meat is delic ...
Oh no! Another muppet goes down, they killed Rizzo!
YUM!
China Flied Lat
Rat its what's for dinner
Melamine flavored Rat Helper.
Now with even more MSG!
The ad in the paper for 'Rat-skinners Wanted' was the tip-off.
Puts a new meaning on Fox-Conned.
Lamb Gyro with a side of America citizenism, please.
Where is he? I really want to see what BS he comes up with in response to the latest China threads.
He couldn't afford his Lucky Female Fetus Soup, so the rat kebabs gave him typhoid fever, and he missed his contractually required 10,000th post on ZeroHedge. The government harvested his organs.
Tasty, tasty. Still better than shit-filled puddings sold there.
And here we wonder why the incidents of roadside shiting in the peoples comunistic paradise of chi-com are so high?
Daring, thems ramb we had for dinner playing havok with me gutsing.
Fuck, is life worth so little in these most disgusting of times? We have fell so far, in such a short space of time I am fucking disgusted to call myself a member of the human race. You really think anyone, not even a poor fucking chinese bloke deserves this?
Who are any one of us to judge a bottom feeding member of a population of any country to judge them and say they deserve this? You really think they do? When their big men sitting in their oppulent luxury think the way they do about their own people?
Its time for a change folks, the average chinese bloke does not warrant this, neither does anyone else, in any country in the entire fucking world. I genuinely hate what we do to each other over the lies the big men spout. We are all worth better than this, its time we realised it.
Troof.
+ bunches and bunches, gobs and gobs, oodles and oodles.
Indeed, how fast and far the fall's been
We're in the process of discovering how thin the veneer of civilization.
It will only change when the human population is drastically lower. Most live on a few dollars a day. Not enough resources to go around, sadly.
380 cases in this scandal alone; can you imagine how many that is in rat meals?
And to think I was going to long Chinese food. Rats!
"And a rat became the unit of currency" - Cosmopolis 2003 novel by Don DeLillo.
Japan breeding Kobe Rats for the upper middleclass Chinese.
Dang! At least we drink shine before we eat rat. They just sprinkle MSG on it. Dang!
New pic of Timmah?
That's why I don't shop at Walmart.
They're milking rats ......... MILKING RATS!
http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/Squeaky_Farms_Brand_Genuine_Animal_Milk
Tonight's dinner specials: Rat-chops, Rack of Ratatoullie and Ponzi-ratis.
I'm sure these are farm raised rats.
Yes indeed; 'cruelty free', farm raised rats who lived long and happy lives before dying of natural causes, having previously willed their bodies to the culinary sciences...
"New York City Discovers Self Sufficiency" states Mayor Bloomberg suggesting every man woman and child be issued individual rat ration cards.
Already it has been reported that the largest and most succulent rats have been segregated and allocated within the rat farms and depositories for the benefit of the partners at Goldman Sachs. Upon hearing of this Bloomberg was reported to have said "Let them eat mice."
Now, if they eat all the rats, how will we know the Chinese ship is sinking?
In the USA the Wall Street rats are the ones eating people alive and in case the ship sinks they have all the life rafts.....retreats in the mountains, helicopters, security teams, foreign assports, gold, etc
Street Rats and Long Pork, it's what's for dinner after TEOTWAWKI. /s
Liferats?
Rat is quite big almost like Guinea Pig,
don't expect mice it's simply too small to butcher :p
I am wondering how soon it will be before human body parts make into the human food supply.
I suspect that the numbers of those actually doing it are far higher than the number caught.
Then again if you were given the back of the food label to read without seeing the front, you would be hard pressed to guess what you were eating given the large number of food additives contained in our so called food.
Come here, my little hedgling, climb into the oven and see if its hot enough
Sung to the tune of the 60's TV show "Branded" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV-7D4io1Rs
"What do you do when you're Rat meat,
And you know you're a Lamb"
Are we bored or what?
Rat, it's what's for Dinner!
How to catch and eat a rat:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J46qjt7T8RE
I try not to eat anything ground or chopped and blended unless I do it myself.
G Gordon Liddy was an expert at this years ago, it has taken the Chinese all these years to catch on....what doesn't kill you makes you stronger!
Fucking American Innovation, Exceptionalism and Just Palin Assorted Stupid Shit, Destiny of Freedom and Whatever ...
Booyah!
GGL is the Man.
The guy was eating rats as a child.
http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/09/19/rat-meat-sold-illegally-in-london/
Years ago, after the East-West German re-unification, I heard about an Autobahn restaurant that was doing amazing business with its tasty Bratwursts. It turned out, they were using farm-raised rats.
Brats, anyone?
Ratwurst..
I can see them now....like Spaulding on Caddy Shack!!!
"ARE YOU GONNA EAT YOUR RAT?"
"Willard? WILLARD??!!!"
This is getting better & better...
I don't see how this is any worse than feeding our infants GMO tainted formulas, or poisoning just about every food item out there with GMO sugar, all with full backing of USDA.
Apologies to Michael Jackson...(well, not really)
Ben most people would turn you away
(turn you away)
I don't listen to a word they say
(a word they say)
They don't see you as tasty, I do, I wish they would try you too
I'm sure they'd think again if they had a meal like Ben
For general edification purposes:
In some countries and cultures rat meat is a dietary staple.
- In the Mishmi culture of India, rats are center to their traditional diet.
- Hawaiians and the Polynesians luvz them some rat meat, though the Hawaiians have slacked off considerably....
- It is also consumed in the Philippines, Cambodia (though it is expensive) and some regions of Thailand
- Bandicoot rats are widely consumed in Southeast Asia
- You can buy fresh rat meat in the outdoor markets of Accra, Ghana and elsewhere in West Africa.
- In some regions of China it is also used in regular cooking.
While the practice described in the OP is bad, the actual consumption of the meat is not that uncommon.
We may not eat it here in the U.S. given our standard of living and culture, but elsewhere it is a vital source of protein.
This is all well and good as long as people are knowingly consuming rat meat and not being duped into eating it.
Agreed.
Whaddu mean?
It's lamb.
Yes, it came from small lambs.
Teenie, tiny lambs.
No, they weren't aborted.
They were just small.
No, its lamb.
OK you win, it's really beef.
From small cows.
Whatddu mean that makes less sense than small lamb.
There are midget horses.
Your neighbor had one?
Until when?
Nope, its lamb.
Miniature lamb.
That saddle?
Nope it was from the little lamb.
No I haven't seen Mary.
That apron.
It's a miniature apron....
Year of the rat was in 2012 so this must be old stock.
"Ughh! This fried Civet Cat tastes just like rat!"
Im the Pied Piper!
Look at me!! lol....yummy yum yum!
How about some Vacanti-Mouse…..sounds delicious no?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacanti_mouse
Hope to pick up some cheap Chinese damage fatigue and detect life potions soon.
If it is well-cooked it will do no harm :)
Horse meat is also better than pig meat or chicken skin as an ingredient.
Hey AnAnusNonymous... sewer squirrel sure beats the hell out of eating aborted girl fetus, tiger's sack and turtle dick, dontcha think, you little servile fucking insect?
Center of Heaven my white hairy ass.
Rats. Ick.
Source your food!
Easy to find organic food and meats raised grass fed without chemicals near you. Many of these sites let you punch in your zip code and go. http://www.thedailysheeple.com/20-places-to-find-local-food-and-family-farms-near-you_032013
Pigflu, Birdflu, Ratflu?
Or will this help curb disease overall?
If we tell you what in special it not be so special.
LOL
What is funny no one south of the Yangzi will eat lamb (the smell makes them swoon), just northerners, foreigners or muslims.
Well, if you can't eat it, fuck it or sell it...
Got me wondering what could possibly be harsher punishment than a bullet to the head and an invoice to the relatives for the bullet. Eating their own products? Lunch at KFC? Monsanto soylent green? Flummoxed.
Talking of mystery meat, the most delicious stew I ever had was hillbilly stew. I never knew rabbit and squirrel could taste so good.
When they start telling you that green tasteless cardboard wafer is made from seaweed... don't believe them.
Have a friend travel in China - a brit.
Sends word food is good and things are booming.
Biting tongue.
Nothing like that rat meat.
Well, they always say when you're eating Chinese food, "Just don't ask what's in it !" . Ratatouille, anyone ?
Of course it isn't lamb. The Chinese just aren't very good at Engrish. It is actually just a Chinese version of an old American favorite.
The correct label is 'Spam" and it's been selling here in the good old USA for decades without a peep - or would that be a squeak - from the consumer.
Mmmmmm - mink.
Anyone try the rat sausage and rat jerky yet?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taboo_food_and_drink#Cats
THe Japanese fishermen continue to fish the Pacific after Fukashima, but ship their fishing catches to be repackaged by Japanese companies in Thailand for world wide sales under other brand names because of perceived and actual radioactivity of their fish. Google those key words.
It could be worse. They could be using rat shit.
In southern China (ex. just outside Shenzhen) I have seen cages at restaurants with fresh, cat, rat monkey, birds even pig, goat, chicken and fish. Half a butchered Black Lab hanging at a shop or a restaurant is common. Friends of mine would eat Minos and grasshoppers, not because they were without food or starving, just the thing to do. Zero road kill anywhere -- nothing to hit on the road -- it's all eaten.
If I knew how to post a pic here on ZH I'd post one of me standing in front of a shop with the butcher in downtown Hong Kong. We all could play name the meat.
Haven't read through all the comments, but the mink and "other" meat was interesting....I mean dog, rabbit, cat too? They use all those animals for fur (lots of dog and cat fur is sold as "rabbit"), sooooo, what to do with the "leftovers?" They found a way... and I just bet this has been going on for years, just like I bet that horsemeat has been in food for years. Don't get me started on horse slaughter, but suffice it to say all those horses slaughtered aren't old nags, they are castoffs of TB racing stables, QH breeders, and backyard breeders. Horses going to slaugher laced with drugs for Europe are young, fat, and healthy.
Rat, the other, other white meat.
just ban rat, but first it needs to be RATified.
not to quibble but the image associated with this post looks more like a friendly little squirrel yawning then some chinese rat
http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user3303/imageroot/2...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fod8e902Ja0
Seems to be a great ice breaker for the singles scene.
"Hi beautiful, what would you say if I offered you dinner and a mink tonight?"
Over there this could be a step up from mice and snakes.
Soylent Green is rats....................
"Rat, its what's for dinner".
Come'on, what's the issue. Tried to catch one of the scampering little mofo's? Instead you chow down on factory-stuffed bird and fat-assed pig, and wonder why the boys of the hood appraise your lard-ass up-and-down.
In the new normal, lean to survive.
It seems to me this article is a clear example of a structural flaw in, I don't want to say it in the hallowed halls of ZH, a structural flaw in capitalism.
I'm a systems guy, let's fix the system, this broken capitalism. Let's regulate the market, and prohibit bad behavior. Help me, help me, I sliding down the rabbit hole, Allliiiiiiiccccceeeee.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WANNqr-vcx0