Sentence examples for rat meat from inspiring English sources

7. Pick the rat meat and discard all bones.

In China, rat meat is being passed off as mutton.

Rat meat masquerading as lamb, cabbage doused in formaldehyde, rice containing arsenic and rotten-meat burgers, all cooked in recycled oil collected from a sewer.

(For Lassa, a key preventive measure was to stop eating rats, but rat meat tasted far too good for that advice to be taken seriously).

There was similar ire at the latest in the recurrent food safety scandals – this time involving rat meat passed off as lamb.

Rat meat dressed up as lamb, adulterated milk and baby formula, substandard school textbooks – the Chinese have plenty to be concerned about right now apart from the perennial problems of pollution and growing concern about falling economic growth.

Five pairs of species-specific primers were designed targeting mitochondrial ND5, ATPase 6, and cytochrome b genes to amplify 172, 163, 141, 129 and 108 bp DNA fragments from cat, dog, pig, monkey and rat meats, respectively.

Last May, police detained 900 people for crimes including selling rat and fox meat as beef and mutton.

The latest episode involved fox, rat and mink meat that was doctored with gelatin, pigment and nitrates and sold as mutton.

Sixty-three people were arrested and accused of "buying fox, mink and rat and other meat products that had not undergone inspection," which they doused in gelatin, red pigment and nitrates, and sold as mutton in Shanghai and adjacent Jiangsu Province for about $1.6 million, according to the ministry's statement.

Last week more than 900 people were arrested for selling what they said was lamb but which was in fact rat and fox meat.