Is it safe for humans to eat mice???

As other posters have pointed out, mice don't have much meat on them. I suppose you could make them pets and fatten them up but in the usual case you are frying eggs in the kitchen and one of the varmints scoots between your slippers.

If you`re swift you can stomp on the tail of the varmint and then wring its wretched neck. But as I said there`s not going to be much meat on it.

However you can harvest the innards. Unless you are in a state of utter deprivation, and heaven forbid you have a family to feed, you can discard the intestines unless you are feeling industrious enough to make little sausages.

The brain is tiny but tasty. A special treat for someone special.

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This thread is 5 years old. The OP isn't even active on here anymore.

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But ho boy am I glad that this thread resurfaced, that was a real treat to read 😂 best thing I've seen in a while

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Hope your joking... mice/rats are disease ridden animals and you can almost guarantee parasites if you eat them. I think im gonna puke just thinking about it!

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Originally Posted by highqualityballz

Hope your joking... mice/rats are disease ridden animals and you can almost guarantee parasites if you eat them. I think im gonna puke just thinking about it!

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You would be surprised what even smart people will do if they are hungry enough. When I was attending a NATO SERE school in Europe we had a British SAS guy eat road kill. He ended up having to take a helicopter ride to the hospital.

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Originally Posted by highqualityballz

Hope your joking... mice/rats are disease ridden animals and you can almost guarantee parasites if you eat them. I think im gonna puke just thinking about it!

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If the rodents you're feeding your snakes are disease ridden and parasitic, so are your snakes ;). I hope you've found a better supplier than that. Rack-raised rodents ought to be about the cleanest animals you could get. You don't want to know how they raise chickens. . .:P

I didn't read the entire epic thread, lol, so I'm sure someone already addressed it. But, sure, humans CAN eat mice. Do you WANT to eat mice? Prolly not. Awfully bony. Same reason we don't eat sparrows or other tiny critters---too much work for not enough meat. But my uncles have stories of roasting rats (filthy tropical rats, not nice sanitary feeder rats) over a fire in Vietnam, and they're still alive. So knock yerself out. People will look at you a little weird though, haha.

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Originally Posted by Willowy

If the rodents you're feeding your snakes are disease ridden and parasitic, so are your snakes ;). I hope you've found a better supplier than that. Rack-raised rodents ought to be about the cleanest animals you could get. You don't want to know how they raise chickens. . .:P

I didn't read the entire epic thread, lol, so I'm sure someone already addressed it. But, sure, humans CAN eat mice. Do you WANT to eat mice? Prolly not. Awfully bony. Same reason we don't eat sparrows or other tiny critters---too much work for not enough meat. But my uncles have stories of roasting rats (filthy tropical rats, not nice sanitary feeder rats) over a fire in Vietnam, and they're still alive. So knock yerself out. People will look at you a little weird though, haha.

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He said he is on a budget and willing to eat mice. My guess is someone willing to eat mice dont care if its a quality mouse or not, and if its from a petstore its most likely not. Im disgusted by the thought of eating mice and would not touch one with a 10ft pole even if its the cleanest mouse in the world.

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He said he is on a budget and willing to eat mice. My guess is someone willing to eat mice dont care if its a quality mouse or not, and if its from a petstore its most likely not. Im disgusted by the thought of eating mice and would not touch one with a 10ft pole even if its the cleanest mouse in the world.

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You would be surprised how quickly that thought process changes after you have gone some time without food.

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Originally Posted by JodanOrNoDan

You would be surprised how quickly that thought process changes after you have gone some time without food.

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I mean yeah of course you gotta do what you gotta do, but if it was between owning a snake and eating mice or not owning a snake and being about to afford food. I wouldnt have snakes.

If you've ever read Never Cry Wolf, by Farley Mowat, he actually did an experiment that required him to survive on eating mice through the winter. No one would believe that wolves ate mice all winter, because they were big predators and how could they survive on little animals with no meat?

They totally can. So can we. You just have to eat a LOT of mice if that's all your eating or it's your primary protein source.

Your best bet is to fry it, bread it and fry it, or deep fry it. You might get grossed out by chewing it. I would suggest getting it into two pieces you can just swallow.