Interesting. “But then there started to be curious sightings, all around town: Rats, alive and healthy, running around without their tails. It turned out the h

Interesting. “But then there started to be curious sightings, all around town: Rats, alive and healthy, running around without their tails. It turned out the hunters would rather amputate a live animal’s tail than take a healthy rat, capable of breeding and creating so many more rats—with those valuable tails—out of commission. There were also reports that some Vietnamese were smuggling foreign rats into the city. And then the final straw: Health inspectors discovered, in the countryside on the outskirts of Hanoi, pop-up farming operations dedicated to breeding rats.”