Cooking and Eating Rats - Paiute Deadfall Trap in Action [WARNING: Hunting/Gutting of Animal] - General

[highlight]:tinfoil: [B]WARNING: This video contains a clip of a rat being killed by a Paiute Deadfall trap, and then the rat is cleaned and gutted in order for the man too consume said rat. The rats were killed because of their invasive nature on this man's property. The last straw of which for him was a case of them killing his quails.[/B] :dogwow: [/highlight] [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcDfWj3Sek0[/media] Pretty awesome video, and this guy's channel is a treasure trove for historical type stuff. He has purchases numerous rat traps, documenting the history of them, including his most recent video as of the 26th of October: 8,000 year old Egyptian rat trap. Either way, if you are not easy on the stomach by watching the deaths of animals, or the gutting and cleaning of animals, please do NOT watch this video. Thank you!

Wouldn't eating rat be dangerous?

From what I understand, the guy lives out in the country, so these would most likely be field rats that are fed on grain and grasses. Either way, any animal you kill for consumption should always have it's stomach cut open. It's one of the easiest ways to figure out if the creature is ill or if it contains any parasites.

That actually looks pretty tasty but did he really have to eat its balls

[QUOTE=Citrus705;52823747]That actually looks pretty tasty but did he really have to eat its balls[/QUOTE] how else is he going to acquire its amazing rodent virility?

One thing which I found out a few days ago, which I think everyone watching this may be shocked by: Rodents are actually more calorie dense per gram then say pork, beef, and mutton. I'm not joking. One study which was conducted regarding the feasibility of micro livestock, found that most rats and rodents are absurdly calorie and protein dense for a form of meat. [quote]In 2002, a trio of New York conservation scientists definitely answered this very question not only as it pertains to rats, but for many animals I would prefer not to eat, including jumping mice, gray squirrels, bearded dragon lizards, southern toads, and both white- and black-tailed prairie dogs. Granted, the authors aimed the paper towards zookeepers, but in case you do find yourself needing to know this one day, then let me be the first to tell you that mice do have nearly 15 times the vitamin A content of tadpoles, but in fairness, tadpoles are 93.1% water, so they don’t have much of anything anyway. Back to rats: According to Petsmart, your average adult rat is going to weigh somewhere in the neighborhood of 300 grams—lady rats a little less, gentlemen a little more. (I won’t consider baby rats here, partly because my gut tells me they would be tougher to disguise as lamb, although they do share a share a horrifying resemblance to Vienna sausages, and partly because, like tadpoles, they don’t have much to them. One rat pup only has about six or seven calories to it.) Still reading? OK. So as it turns out, gram for gram, rat is not the worst thing in the world that you can eat, although there is plenty better. One 300-gram rat contains 648 Calories, 63 grams of protein, and 33 grams of fat. That’s not great for the healthy eater—the same amount of actual lamb shoulder provides just 402 Calories and 61 grams of protein, and just 16 grams fat—but it is certainly an improvement over what 300 grams of New York Sirloin would you net you (684 Cal, 62g protein, 47g fat). But as we all know, there is more to life than calories. Sure, rats don’t have any potassium worth writing home about, but our standard 300-gramer does provide 14 milligrams of iron, which is nothing to sneeze at. That time I failed the hematocrit test at the blood donation tent, the nurse on duty told me to eat raisins, but even 300 grams of them would only have given me 5.7mg iron. That’s barely more than the equivalent amount of guinea pig.[/quote] [url=https://neurostew.wordpress.com/2013/05/04/nutritional-content-of-rat/]Nutritional Content of Rats[/url] Sadly, some of the government studies I had saved previously do not seem to be archived anymore, but the reality is pretty fucking weird when you think about it. It has been suggested by some conservationist and environmentalist that the US government should invest into what is known as "Micro-Livestock" and attempt to breed large rodents into meat animals. Realistically speaking, stuff like the [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capybara]Capybara[/url] and [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambian_pouched_rat]Gambian pouched rat[/url], could be specifically bred to create new forms of livestock that would be far more environmentally friendly, and would be possible to raise in smaller pastures. One thing I have been personally studying is trying to make a form of summer sausage(diet sausage) made of rat, pigeon, grasshopper flour, and bighead carp. May sound weird, but a lot of those meats are rich in vitamins and proteins and majority of them are of invasive species, which is an added bonus for conservation efforts! I'm gonna try to see if I can find the USDA study regarding microlivestock, and if I do, I'll post it here. Had some really weird information regarding a variety of smaller animals which could be selectively bred to create really great meat animals.

Kinda wished he'd shown a bit more of how to carve the meat and how to get everything edible off.

An adequate Bright Wizard tutorial for Vermintide.

[QUOTE=ThePanther;52823879]Kinda wished he'd shown a bit more of how to carve the meat and how to get everything edible off.[/QUOTE] That's something that always bothers me about those "survival" shows. Usually they're so short the survivalist doesn't have time to go in depth about that kind of stuff. It's always [I]what[/I] you can eat but not usually how

[QUOTE=Kylel999;52824640]That's something that always bothers me about those "survival" shows. Usually they're so short the survivalist doesn't have time to go in depth about that kind of stuff. It's always [I]what[/I] you can eat but not usually how[/QUOTE] The how is generally unpleasant. For mice and rats, you would just straight up eat the bones. [editline]26th October 2017[/editline] [QUOTE=JoeSkylynx;52823856] One thing I have been personally studying is trying to make a form of summer sausage(diet sausage) made of rat, pigeon, grasshopper flour, and bighead carp. May sound weird, but a lot of those meats are rich in vitamins and proteins and majority of them are of invasive species, which is an added bonus for conservation efforts! [/QUOTE] I assume step one of this process is figuring out how to legally call rat, pigeon, grasshopper flour, and bighead carp literally anything other than rat, pigeon, grasshopper flour, and bighead carp. like...Murinae, Dove, cricket powder, and freshwater white fish.

this dude just ate rat balls

[QUOTE=GunFox;52825103]The how is generally unpleasant. For mice and rats, you would just straight up eat the bones. [editline]26th October 2017[/editline] I assume step one of this process is figuring out how to legally call rat, pigeon, grasshopper flour, and bighead carp literally anything other than rat, pigeon, grasshopper flour, and bighead carp. like...Murinae, Dove, cricket powder, and freshwater white fish.[/QUOTE] Murinae, Dove, Fiber Flour, and Kentucky Tuna. Honestly, I'd imagine people would never want to touch it if they knew what it was made of, outside of persay small goofy stuff.

That rat would be honoured to find the man[I] ate his fucking balls[/I].