Food FYI: On the menu -- rat meat

FIVE COURSES OF RAT

An artist serves rat for dinner, including goat cheese and rat crostini, rat and pork terrine, Rat Two Ways (braised rat and a roasted half rat), and French toast with rat jerky and crispy rat head -- "a post-apocalyptic hunter-gatherer feast." [New York Observer]

IN CHICK-FIL-A'S DEFENSE

Blocking construction of Chick-fil-A restaurants over its president's anti-gay views is a violation of First Amendment rights. [Mother Jones] 

I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S NOT CHICKEN

A meat eater, who says he's tried every fake meat there is, waxes gourmand about Beyond Meat's faux chicken. [Slate]

GLOBAL NUTRITION

Are nutrition programs maintaining momentum as a way to help improve global development issues? [The Economist]

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