Posted on 03/19/2025 2:38:23 AM PDT by Libloather
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) has released a list of five invasive animals that Americans can hunt, catch and cook.
Eating invasive species can help protect native wildlife by reducing the numbers and limiting the damage these species cause to ecosystems, FWS spokesperson Erin Huggins wrote in her list, which was published on the agency's website.
Fox News Digital spoke to various chefs and hunters to get their take on the flavor profiles of these invasive but "downright delicious" animals.
1. Nutria
2. Northern snakehead
3. Green iguana
4. Invasive carp
5. Feral hogs/wild boar
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I will counter with the rational thought that rather than the invasive species, Americans should kill and eat the common native species.
Most particular, the Virginia white tail deer. The deer have adapted to life with humans. They destroy untold hundreds of thousands of $$$ of residential garden and yard plantings.
Bambi is a young buck sporting small antlers who lives in my neighborhood. Ha has since a very young age enjoyed coming into my yard and sleeping in a bed of English Ivey He was born here and has in fact lived here all his life. He and his sisters and cousins number now at about 12 or maybe 14. Together they eat everything in all the neighborhood yards.
“[T]He Jews weren’t but God removed that restriction in Acts 10.”
And who didn’t change the law one jot or one tittle? Commentary differs from the opinion expressed
Dietary laws maintained health and sanitation. The analogy used in Acts 10 as presented is commonly misunderstood.
Maybe we can rename the Nutria as “Lake Rabbits”.
Now that most people know Nutria = Ginormous Rat.
But you know the CORRECT one. Right?
Like so many people who go around telling others they’re wrong and yet never tell them why or what they think is right.
Going around and constantly telling people they’re wrong without correction is useless and you might as well not bother.
Snakehead is quite tasty and fun to catch- Not the demented Carvelle variety.
That worked for Chilean sea bass. They used to be called Patagonian toothfish.
In Judaism, being unclean is a temporary state, unless the reason you become unclean is permanent. For example, consuming an unclean meat leaves you in an unclean state until your body has finished processing the food and have excreted from the body. However, if you end up with leprosy, it is permanent unless God performs a miracle for you and removes the leprosy.
So, in principle, the way I interpret the unclean laws is that when you put yourself in position of either being at risk for an illness or being infectious of a possible illness, you are considered unclean until it can be certified that you are clean. To me, changing technologies change the length of time that you are unclean.
For example, in Biblical times, if you touched a dead animal then you were considered unclean for up to seven days. However, in the modern world that changes if you wear a hazmat suit. The moment you take off the suit, you are no longer at risk of making somebody ill from having touched an undead animal.
However, back to Acts. Christ didn’t make unclean animals clean. Pigs are still pigs and they still do things that pigs do. The dream was an allegory to teach Peter that gentiles are now declared clean, because Peter was a stauch Jew purist and didn’t want anything to do with gentiles, considering them unclean people. You can tell the interpretation of the dream by his actions. Peter went to meet the Centurion, not have a ham sandwich.
There is a restaurant here that collects them and serves them. Very delicious but pricey. Difficult to clean and cook so few of the spearfishermen keep them.
Wish I had learned of this years ago. We were living with the desgtruction wrought by the local deer population, but this past summer I had had enough. Apparently their population exploded, and they were eating plants they had not bothered before.
After searching the Internet, I learned of this product. Works beautifully. No new fences required.
Nature’s MACE Deer and Rabbit MACE, Deer Repellent Spray
Peter also makes it clear in Acts 10:28, flat out stating what God’s purpose of the dream was.
With you on that. A healthy, three-point buck for some reason looks far, far more tasty than any of these creatures. I think if I caught one of those horrifying-looking snakeheads, I’d probably just cut the line... And no, I don’t think I’ll be eating any reptiles, thank you.
In Thailand, feral hogs and swarms of locusts were never a problem, because hungry Thai catch and eat them with gusto. Locusts are fondly called “Sky prawns”, and even young well-dressed city ladies can still be witnessed happily munching on fried sky prawns, like potato chips.
Nutria. Brought into the USA in the 1950s to get people to raise them in their garages for the fur. When the scam finally fell through and they became worthless they were released into the wild by those taken in by the scam.
Strange. It is hard to find anything about them at that time.
https://ohio-corp.com/co/buckeye-cabana-nutria-inc
“Swamp Chinchilla”?
” I’ll take some deer sausage if people give it to me.”
Have you ever had Elk sausage? Oh my.
What about dogs and cats?
And Mahi Mahi used to be called Dolphins.
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