No one can say exactly how many occupations there are in the world, most of which are familiar to people, and in our neighboring country of India, there is a very special profession ,—— rat catcher.
Rats are a creature that everyone hates, they lie out day and night, frantically destroy food, bringing huge economic losses to people, just in India, nearly 1/4 of the rice every year will be destroyed by rats, making the already difficult people even worse.
At the same time, due to the habits of rats, they carry a large number of harmful germs, which are the main carriers of infectious diseases such as plague, hemorrhagic fever, hook disease, etc. In human history, the number of deaths has been uncountable.
In order to deal with the hateful rats, humans have also struggled with them for hundreds of years, spent countless time, money, energy, and still have no good way to deal with rats, they are still a major hidden danger affecting human health.
Most people's first reaction when they see mice is to avoid it from afar, this kind of bad stuff that no one wants to touch.
But for the professional mousetrap, Clen, rats are a good thing, not only to make them money, but also to be the main source of protein in the family.
Karen's daily job was simple: to go to the field to catch rats and keep the crops safe.
As a professional mousetrap, Karen understands the habits of rats, knows how to deal with them, and there are many ways to catch rats, but he likes to use smoking, a primitive and effective means of hunting.
Every day before dawn, Karen would get up early and come to the crop field, and the rats in the fields would hide in the dug holes, and in order to avoid danger, the rats would usually dig out several exits.
With his rich experience, Karen found all the nearby openings, blocked them all, leaving only a main opening, and then lit a pile of wood next to it, put the red-hot charcoal into the clay pot, blew the air with his mouth to the hole, let the smoke fill the hole, the time of blowing depends on the depth of the hole, so it is necessary to keep blowing to ensure that the black smoke fills the rat hole.
At this time, Karen will quickly observe the surroundings to see if there is smoke coming out, if there is a hole that has not been blocked, it must be stepped up, otherwise it will be a failure.
Under the thick smoke, the rats in the cave will frantically flee to the exit, but all the openings of the hole will be sealed, and the rats will soon be fainted. After 10 minutes, Karen removed the blockages from the openings, and the stunned rats lay there neatly, ready to be slaughtered.
As a professional mousetrap, Karen is also responsible for handling rat carcasses, and they will take home the rats they catch as a trophy, which is the family's richest dinner.
Back at home, Clen was handling the giant rat sharply, his wife was preparing the seasoning for cooking, and the children were excited to come around to help.
The way to deal with it is very simple and rough, after removing the internal organs of the dead rats, they are directly placed on the fire and roasted, which can not only make the meat burnt and brittle, but also sterilize.
When the rat is roasted black, it is almost enough, scrape the skin off with a knife, simply wash it and then cut it directly, put it in the pot and stir-fry, add the right amount of spices and curry, and finally with rice, a fragrant curry bowl is completed.
What everyone avoids has become a hard-won meal for the family, and in their eyes, rats are delicious and easily accessible food.
Because their family is a professional rat catcher, before it was a primitive tribe living in the forest, and then the forest disappeared, without a skill, they were identified as a low caste, and could only live by preying on rats, and since then, their clan has been fixed in this profession for generations.
Ironically, although the Karens have been hunting rats for generations and eliminating countless hidden dangers, their status is still inferior, not much like rats, at the bottom of the Indian caste system, oppressed and discriminated against, and plagued by poverty and disease.
So they eat rats, in large part because of poverty, and Karen works hard to catch rats for a day and only earns $1 at most, and that's the only income their family has.
Restricted by the lower castes, they are considered inaccessible, can only be with other mouse catchers, not allowed to contact with other castes, they are not allowed to work other than rat catchers, they do not have their own land, their descendants have no access to education, even the wells in the village cannot be used, and others regard them as untouchables and avoid them.
In addition to unfair treatment in society, the profession of rat hunting has also brought great damage to their bodies, rats carry a wide variety of deadly viruses and bacteria, high temperatures can only kill some of them, others will enter the body, lurking, at any time may erupt.
In addition, their hunting methods are more terrible, smoking can kill rats, but it will also force them to inhale a lot of smoke, which is more harmful than smoking, and day after day, year after year, almost all mouse catchers can not escape tuberculosis, lung cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and it is difficult for the Karen family to live more than 50 years.
The Karen are at the bottom of Indian society, they are like rats, always living in the shadows, India's Indian caste system, so that they have determined the future from birth.
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