Live rats are awaiting transport to Vietnam at Chrey Thom district in Kandal province

REFILE - ADDITIONAL CAPTION INFORMATION A boy shows off a rat he caught at Khos Thom district in Kandal province, 65km (40 miles) south of Phnom Penh near the Cambodia-Vietnam border, May 15 ,2009. Rat meat was eaten in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge regime in the 1970s and for some time afterwards when little else was available, and the poor took to it last year when the price of other meat soared, but younger Cambodians turn their noses up. In Vietnam, in contrast, it is something of a delicacy.REUTERS/Chor Sokunthea (CAMBODIA ANIMALS SOCIETY IMAGES OF THE DAY)

REFILE - ADDITIONAL CAPTION INFORMATION Live rats are stored awaiting transport to Vietnam at Chrey Thom district in Kandal province, 65km (40 miles) south of Phnom Penh near the Cambodia-Vietnam border, May 15, 2009. Rat meat was eaten in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge regime in the 1970s and for some time afterwards when little else was available, and the poor took to it last year when the price of other meat soared, but younger Cambodians turn their noses up. In Vietnam, in contrast, it is something of a delicacy.REUTERS/Chor Sokunthea (CAMBODIA ANIMALS SOCIETY)