You just can't make this up!

Behold, for an improvement in both the malnutrition and food crises is just around the corner. An Indian local official has proposed to promote eating something we have plenty of everywhere but do not really consider as edible foodstuff. He's talking rats.

After extolling the virtues of rodent vermin fricassees, he proceeded to suggest that eating the pests will help save a significant proportion of grain stocks. Although crazy, this solution is at least more workable and immediate than what many pseudo-scientist bigwigs have been concocting over the past few months. Should I mention the nuts proposal of getting overweight people off public transport again?

The official in question isn't new to crazy outbursts of creativity misplaced in a pulping mill. His is the idea of hiring eunuchs as guards in maternity wards (who in their sick mind would..... never mind). He is also about to father a proposal to harvest snakes, apparently for the value of their venom. Doesn't he know they're also very tasty? Yumm.