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Rat meat is the meat of various species of rat: medium-sized, long-tailed rodents. It is a food that, while taboo in some cultures, is a dietary staple in others. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Taboos include fears of disease or religious prohibition, but in many places, the high number of rats has led to their incorporation into the local diets.
The albino laboratory rat with its red eyes and white fur is an iconic model organism for scientific research in a variety of fields. Laboratory rats or lab rats are strains of the rat subspecies Rattus norvegicus domestica (Domestic Norwegian rat) which are bred and kept for scientific research.
Brotomys voratus - Hispaniolan edible rat (extinct) Genus Boromys. Boromys offella - Oriente cave rat (extinct) ... Berylmys berdmorei - Small white-toothed rat;
The term white meat in particular has caused confusion from oversimplification in scientific publications, misuse of the term in the popular press, and evolution of the term over decades. Some writers suggest avoiding the terms "red" and "white" altogether, instead classifying meat by objective characteristics such as myoglobin or heme iron ...
A coronavirus pandemic-induced labour crunch has forced managers of the 2,000-hectare estate in Slim River to find creative ways to upkeep their fields, even as prices of the world's most consumed ...
Naked mole-rats feed primarily on very large tubers (weighing as much as a thousand times the body weight of a typical mole-rat) that they find deep underground through their mining operations. A single tuber can provide a colony with a long-term source of food—lasting for months, or even years, [ 57 ] as they eat the inside but leave the ...
A major Japanese food supplier has recalled more than 100,000 packs of a popular brand of sliced white bread after rat parts were found inside some loaves.. The latest scare adds to a raft of food ...
TOKYO — A popular brand of sliced white bread is being recalled in Japan after some loaves were found to inadvertently contain rat parts.. Pasco Shikishima Corp., a major food supplier based in ...