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Fast food: Farmers in the Philippines have been combating a plague of rats in the rice fields by electrocuting them with wires placed around the water-logged fields, which are then connected - usually illicitly - to the power grid. According to the regional crops director, Cesar Rodriguez: "The average catch is 800 rats a night. The beauty is that it also gives additional income, because early in the morning they are selling the rats in the market ... at 30-35 pesos (73-85 cents) per kilo of dressed rat. This is becoming a delicacy because some think it is a good aphrodisiac as a substitute for cobra." Vietnam is also plagued by rats, but they blame the export of cats to the Chinese, who eat them.
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