Rat Meat: Food of the Future?

"GrrlScientist" blogs on peer-reviewed research into the steady decline of migratory animals on her blog "Living the Scientific Life." The disappearance of migratory species leaves plenty of room for an explosion in the population of localized populations of rats and mice, she says.  And if you like bugs, you'll like the data on the disappearance of songbirds: "But it isn't just fish whose numbers are steeply declining. Similar population declines are occurring among neotropical migratory
songbirds, whose total biomass currently is estimated at only 30,000 tons (which translates into 3,000-10,500 tons of insects consumed per day -- before they begin rearing their chicks)."