I'm watching on Netflix a documentary called Rats, As you might think, it's about rats. Their activities in different countries and urban centers, how different countries address the problem, and different health risks they pose. It's well done. Morgan Spurlock is a producer or something. Anyone seen it?
I'm finding it most interesting to see how different cultures treat the problem.
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Yeah, (((Rats))) are definitely a quite prevalent issue.
Some countries may ignore them, and others will exterminate them
Seems to me that the ones who exterminate them are much better off
It does point out that if you feed a normally harmless rodent and give it a safe urban environment to thrive safe from danger they will explode in population.
Like blacks.
The documentary starts in the US, in New York and New Orleans. Public Health officials are more interested in documenting the problem, looking through public parks for nesting areas and growth in populations. They observe piles of garbage bags on the street by drainage or sewer openings to observe the feeding habits. They catch some and dissect them, looking for parasites and signs of disease, changes to populations of different species, and even do genetic testing to look for mutations, resistance to diseases, or why the individual rats are getting larger or smaller. Also, interesting interview with an experienced exterminator.
Burgers looking to analyse the problem before throwing resources at it.
Rats did nothing wrong.
>What is the solution to the rat problem?
Cats.
>what is the solution to the cat problem?
Bats
>what is the solution to the bat problem?
gnats
Then they go to Mumbai in India. Predictably, there are fewer resources to put towards the problem, plus the streets are often filled with garbage and poo not in the loo, and homes built poorly with holes everywhere, people sleeping on the floor on top of each other, an even better environment for rats.
Here there are "rat squads" who run around the city at night, trapping them at night, collapsing their burrow holes, and beating them with sticks. Can't stomp them or they squirt everywhere spreading offal and guts and disease even more.
These rat vigilantes get paid per kilo of rat they bring in. Reminds me of Paris during the days of plague, when the bounty on rats led to rat farming for fun and profit, and even more rats.
Look up "perverse incentive" on google or wikipedia or whatever.
>Morgan Spurlock
Start a campaign to accuse him and Netflix of anti-Semitism
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Some rats are OK desu
> As you might think, it's about rats.
Why did i lol at this?
Then the documentary goes to Cambodia. These rats are rural, living in fields of grain or whatever. Farmers trap them and bring them to their local broker who buys the larger ones still alive by the kilo. The farmers then throw the smaller ones into the pond for the snakes and the broker drives away. You know where this is going.
Straight across the border to vietnam to sell to restaurants.
While the inevitable result seems gross to us, the various resulting dishes look pretty damned good. These rats live in the country and eat grain, so I'm sure they are tasty enough. An animal that eats garbage is full of parasites and tastes like garbage. An animal that eats clean tastes good and why not eat it?
This is a good idea
"Pila" de cats to deal with such problem, the cats themselves would become one after a while
OP here again, just an addendum.
The rat brokers in Cambodia only buy the larger ones that will survive the trip to Vietnam in a sack or jammed into a cage. The restaurant owner only buys the ones that are still alive upon arrival. Then the rats are sacked, drowned in a big bucket, feet cut off, skinned and gutted, and cooked fresh. Various dishes that looked quite good.
OP here. Next, the documentary goes to Cheltenham in England, or however the fuck you spell it. The camera follows around some rat hunters who get called to farms with a rat problem.
The rat hunters are just out for the hunt. They have a bunch of cute doggo, terriers for the hunt. The doggo sniffs out a hole and the hunter shovels it open. The doggos pounce on the rats and tear them up good. The hunters uses smoke and gas in one hole to smoke the rats out of their other holes.
They all look like they are having a good time, especially the doggos. The rats aren't, but fuck them.
OP here. Then the documentary goes back to India, another part called Rajasthan.
And you guessed it, here the rats are worshipped as the reincarnated spirits of dead people. There's a temple to the fuckers, and priests feed the cunts with chopped fruit and veg, and big bowls of milk or whatever. Nobody eats cows there so I suppose there's plenty of milk and cream to feed the rats.
People come to feed them too, and pack into the temple like rats themselves to pray. Weirdness.
Nobody eats the rats there, even though they swarm over everything. People literally think that the rats are their own dead family. The rats crawl around in the big bowls of food that the people eat from at the same time. Yuck. Some guy just drank from a big bowl of milky millet millet that rats are drinking from at the same time, probably swimming and shitting in it too.
While I respect hinduism as an ancient and enlightened religion, sometimes I have to shake my head at them.
And that's the end of the documentary, with a closure by the grizzled cigar smoking exterminator who says that if and when we humans all die, the world will be left to the rats because they are too smart and adaptable to be controlled by us.
Great flick. Watch it.
>what is the solution to the gnat problem?
rats
>Morgan Spurlock
Mr super lie to me is back at it again, I see.
I wonder if the Indian government would pay for a service to brutally modernize the sanitation of their cities.
By which I mean would they pay a group of mercenaries to physically beat their people to death for not pooing in loo.
>Watch it.
Why? You just told us everything that happens.
Wow, Ted Cruz's biopic looks really fascinating! I might give it a watch.
Because you ought to see it. The cute doggos jumping on rats. The old vietnamese woman cooking a variety of rat dishes. The grizzled exterminator doing the interview.
It's a documentary. The plot doesn't matter, as there really is no plot. Fuck.
Nice blog also didn't read
I think it would take more than some fatal beatings. The infrastructure in these huge cities of India sucks, let alone the designated shitting streets.
Blow me. I thought it would be an interesting discussion of different cultures, using the treatment o the rat problem as a catalyst.
Or maybe I should just start threads about "muh Trump", those seem to get a lot of attention.
I wouldn't suggest watching this because you'll be scared that you'll get a testicle eating parasite next time you go to a restaurant. Better off living in that blissful ignorance, mates.
SPLAT THE RATS!
The bit where American experts are cataloguing the parasites in the trapped rats was pretty rekt too. Hang onto your testicles if you eat in a big city restaurant for sure.
>living in a city
Leaf why
that shit was fucking gross. those Indian dudes seemed like nice guys, but sending out a group of like 4 dudes to kill rats 1 by 1 seems like they weren't even making a dent.
I don't know enough about rats to really comment but just remember the last time someone tried to fuck with nature.
Or The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Yeah, I agree. I've spent too much time on Sup Forums lately. When I saw the Mumbai rat hunters I thought "those pajeets probably use the same nets and sticks to rape by day, then take a break to shit in the street, then hunt rats by night to make a buck".
There's no way they are making a dent in the rat problem. The bounty in Mumbai is probably so that the local government can claim they are addressing the problem. As cheaply as possible.
rats are actually really useful in large cities, they eat food left over in excrement, like the will eat the undigested carrot or corn inside your shit.....
it unclogs the sewer pipes and make the shit flows
cats don't chase rats, not the wild ones anyway, rats that are twice as small as a cat can usually kill it, if it survives the bite the cat has probably gotten a bad disease
I'm a PCO, I use to think rats were bad until bed bugs started becoming epidemic, there is nothing whatsoever remote to the mental/financial pain that bed bugs create
>That fucking Vietnamese bitch drowning and dicing rats to eat she bought from cambodia
Literally sub-human degenerates.
>The four pests to be eliminated were rats, flies, mosquitoes, and sparrows.
nice
You can't obliterate animals on genocidal scales.
You CAN cull and manage the populations.