Will Mickey Mouse and Jerry bring down Indian IT?

I am increasingly frustrated by some of the policies that are followed in top-tier IT companies in India. One thing that really irks me is the inability to bring in small eatables or drinkables(biscuits, fritos, kurkure) or even a can of coke to eat on my desk while programming.
My dream when I was a college kid was to have a bottle of coke(or pepsi) on the side, loud music banging through my ears and line and line of beautiful, world changing code being written.
But most IT companies, do not allow food inside the premises, some going to the extent of banning tea and coffe on the desk. It was not until I spoke to a F&L manager recently, that I understood the reason for this seeming idiosyncracy.

The reason was RATS!!!! Apparently, rat infestations are common. He highlighted an incident in a company he worked with, where RATS invaded the server rooms and tore the main cabling crippling the network.

I was aghast!! Million dollar servers running million dollars worth of software which keeps an army of 4000 people busy working, all bought down by Rats? (Not viruses/not malware/not theft/not hackers but rats). A scene right out of the Tom and Jerry comics.

There is no mention of rats in any ISO code or any other standard which data center people are supposed to follow. The problem of rats is surprisingly hard to solve. A simple google, did not find me one good simple(read cheap) solution to fixing the problem, other than calling in exterminators and putting a lot of rat poison.

Ofcourse, a knee jerk reaction to this is that many IT companies(who claim they are fun places to work in etc etc) , stop you from taking even small eatables into the company premises!!!! I personally believe that this is a huge dent in productivity. For some people programming and eating go hand in hand. For others, it is a time saving opportunity lost.

I am more saddended by the fact that none of the big IT companies I know off seem to be doing anything other than the obvious, "do not allow food" inside tactic. Many of them cite the excuse that Indians by their very nature are "sloppy" and "undisciplined" and cannot be trusted to keep premises clean enough to ward of rodents.

I am even more aghast at the fact that our big IT companies which employ millions of our best brains have not come up with innovative solutions to tackle this issue. I wonder, what such technological innovative solutions can be.

Granted, pest control is not in the domain of the normal "IT Engineer", however innovative solutions are. I can think of a few:

1) Wireless Networks- Go wireless wherever possible people. Makes things a whole lot easier.
2) Secure Cables- There must be something(Steel covering) to put on cables that would prevent mice from chewing on them
3) Poison- Ofcourse poisioning would be the best way to have Pest Control.

I would love to see if there are any more innovative ideas(I admit the ones listed above are a little lame.) to solve this problem.