[JACKRUSSELL]

A worker catches rats in central China's Hunan Province on June 23, 2007. The rodents were driven to higher ground and into farmers' fields after the lake flooded and submerged rat holes in the area.

To combat damage to crops and a potential public health risk, residents have been using everything from poison to hammers—and even their bare hands—to kill the rodents.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I'll bet Zheng Xiaoyu would have made a fine rat killer, if only they hadn't executed him.

[El Gato]

Send the rats to North Korea, they’ll be happy as H#!! to get the extra protein. Stir fried rat is probably pretty good too. Add a little kimche and a few grains of rice and you’ve got a nice balanced meal.

[vox humana]

"Two Billion" Rats Invade China Lake Towns

Rats! I thought this story would be about some Democrat delegation visiting China.

[ViLaLuz]

Rat, the other white meat:

http://bsornot.whipnet.net/priceless/rat4dinner2.html

[hosepipe]

Sweet and Sour Windfall.. Mystery meat egg rolls..

[Duke Nukum]

obviously the rats aren’t obeying the One Rat policy

[ApplegateRanch]

Coming soon to feed stores, super markets, and restaurants near you.

Maybe if they didn’t eat all their cats & rat terriers....

[metmom]

ping

[mywholebodyisaweapon]

So much for the other threads about the looming worldwide food shortage.

[Biblebelter]

The course of human history tells us that rats carry disease and present a health danger. As a trading partner with the United States, this could pose a health danger to us. After all they export all kinds of product to us, and we export lots of dollars in return. The products they export could be contaminated with disease or the poisons they used to kill the rats, the dollars we export to them are probably done so electronically and while those electronic transfers could be contaminated with trojans and viruses, I am sure they have stolen the software necessary to take care of any problems, as we know they do not usually pay for licensing or copyrights of American products. I say China today as trading partner is a greater threat to this country than it ever was when we isolated it as our Cold War enemy in the days of Mao.

[Jimmy Valentine]

China is cursed.

[Daffynition]

Rats by Dr Seuss

If your ratty gets all scatty 'cos his coat is getting matty
And he's acting kinda batty now he doesn't look so natty
If he starts to get all chatty and to voice pratty demands
Then beware! You've got a bratty tatty ratty on your hands.

If your doe has had a go with all her bro' bucks in a row
And you've seen her face aglow and her belly grow with woe
If she's getting glad and gloating and gargantuous in girth
Then at any time you guess that your grand girl is gonna birth

If your buck has had no luck getting his lazy butt unstuck
And you pluck him from his hammock to a chorus of "You suck!"
If his flaccid furry form is in a squishy slug disguise
Then it's right to get this roly rotund rat some exercise.

[Malacoda]

Great — these rats (and the poisons used to kill ‘em) will be showing up in our food chain within weeks.

[mware]

[grey_whiskers]

Sanitation staff has also been dispatched to prevent disease outbreaks. In some places around Dongting Lake, 2-foot-tall (0.6-meter-tall) concrete walls have been hastily built to keep the rodents away from farms.

But Trent Lott (Jellyfish - MS) says walls don't work!

Cheers!