The mission: Get dinner. For rodents and other small creatures of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, the night is an especially dangerous time, as meat-eating bats leave their roosts seeking prey.
"Buyers were afraid to eat bat meat. But gradually, because they think that we have a different way of cooking, they are not afraid of it anymore," manager Yani Tulangow told Business Insider Today.
It’s worth keeping in mind that cooking usually kills viruses in meat and animal tissue ... Sure, human beings eat bats. But how many human beings eat raw or severely undercooked bats?