Smell A Rat On Your Fork?

In early 2013 the Brits and Irish received a great culinary shock

Ingredients set forth on food labels the actual content mocked

All-beef products adulterated with horsemeat and pork to share

Now from China in May of 2013 comes another case of eater beware

The Chinese calendar consists of 12 animals and 2013 is the year of the snake

But there is no tradition of featuring that reptile that year as the meat to take

The Chinese calendar includes the rat as one of its years

But most likely a meat that a Chinese would hold dear

20,000 tons of rat meat products claiming to be mutton or lamb

Is just the latest profit seeking Chinese scam

Gives new meaning to the “I smell a rat phrase”

New impetus to join the Vegan craze

Pursuit of the quick or dishonest buck is not just confined to our shores

Cutting corners, especially in China, seems a universal trait, greed wanting always more

Fortunately with Instagram, Facebook and Twitter, accountability cannot hide

The world for consumers becomes a small village and quickly all know what sellers have lied

A business reputation takes a lifetime to create and mold

Only to be lost in a instant when rat meat instead of lamb is sold

A lesson Das Auto chose to forget when it rigged its diesel emission checks

A new car buyer would have to be an idiot to a VW made car now select

© October 10, 2015, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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