Perhaps the NAACP will organize an airlift of phat, tasty rats from New Orleans.
Rats in da pan.
(CNN) -- Twelve-year-old Beatrice returns from the fields with small animals she's caught for dinner.
Her mother, Elizabeth, prepares the meat and cooks it on a grill made of three stones supporting a wood fire. It's just enough food, she says, to feed her starving family of six.
Tonight, they dine on rats.
"Look what we've been reduced to eating?" she said. "How can my children eat rats in a country that used to export food? This is a tragedy."
More here:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/africa/12/19/koinange.zimbabwe/index.html
Hmmph!