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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Mmmmmm....dolphin.
“We are not supposed to eat unclean animals.”
God himself says you are wrong.
Acts 10:9-15
10 He became hungry and wanted something to eat, and while the meal was being prepared, he fell into a trance. 11 He saw heaven opened and something like a large sheet being let down to earth by its four corners. 12 It contained all kinds of four-footed animals, as well as reptiles and birds. 13 Then a voice told him, “Get up, Peter. Kill and eat.”
14 “Surely not, Lord!” Peter replied. “I have never eaten anything impure or unclean.”
15 The voice spoke to him a second time, “Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.”
Elk burgers top all other burgers, for me.
Fuddruckers, we need more of you back!
They should add White tailed Deer to the list.
I had 15 of them walk through my front yard a couple weeks ago when there was still a snow pack.
Then just this past weekend my neighbor who moved in next door last year put up No Trespassing/Hunting Signs along his property line.
I have hunted on that 55 acre property for the 14 years I have lived there. I was granted his permission last year. I guess he changed his mind.
Now I thought we had evolved from undocumented to migrant.
Nutria quite nice when made by Cajun’s
Green iguana the Mexicans make a mean mole version with it.
Invasive carp smoked or deep fried is less muddy tasting than wild catfish for sure.
Feral hogs/wild boar this is just everyday food in Texas. I have probably 100lbs in the outside freezers. Low and slow over pecan or post oak whole hog, or we do a multi day Cajun boucherie.
Never had snakehead but fish is fish , smoke it fry it, grill it. My Yankee friend’s say it’s like tilapia or basa so to the smoker it goes, cold over alder or cedar.
Is my PC terminology out of date already? Seems as soon as you turn around...
Carp recipe: Take one carp scale, skin, gut. Place in crab trap and eat the crabs.
That, and possum is easier on the tires and bodywork when I run them.. I mean hunt them.
I’m still feasting on cockroaches and bed bugs as suggested by the Biden administration.
The Asian carp were imported here to be fish stick stock. The farm they were on flooded and the fish escaped into the Mississippi iirc. Now they are everywhere, The problem is they don’t bite on hooks, but they are supposedly good eating. I got the info from a U.S. park ranger at a camp ground on the Missouri River. Those fish were like a carpet at the dam base, feeding on the stuff that went through and was stirred up by the generating station.
There's a couple of Youtubers who post videos of their iguana hunts where they're contracted to shoot them with air rifles in subdivisions and golf courses.....
If I'm not mistaken, I think Fla offers a bounty on them too.....No license necessary.
As a side note, here in Michigan, the DNR has a pest kill list comprised of possums, skunks, ground hogs, muskrats, raccoons and squirrels. Kill them all year long and no license is necessary.
Read some commentary, and studies concerning the scriptures. Draw your own conclusions, dogma doesn’t help either. Keep the context in mind as to to whom, what,where and when statement we’re written down,and why.
Theology in a Christian context seeks to understand God as He is revealed in the Bible. So, the study of God is a study of God’s revelation of Himself. Theology is essentially a study of scripture. Theology combines Greek words: theos, meaning God, and logos, meaning word or rational thought.
I have. I don’t do dogma and there’s no cause that you should assume someone does just because others agree with them.
The Gentiles were never under the Law. The Law was for Jews.
And there’s other passages besides Acts 10 and I expect you know them.
We LOVE elk!!
Elk burgers...elk chili....elk tacos .... etc, etc.
I hear once ya get passed the bones, they aren’t that bad. Was fishing next to a younger guy on a lake dock. He was bringing them in. Filled a 5 gallon bucket. Asked him what he’ll do with all that. “Give ‘em to my grandpa. He eats ‘em.”
Canning, sometimes with tomato juice. Use like canned salmon.
Smaller, younger carp are excellent smoked.
My question - how much CO2 would be avoided once they're all gone?
One has to get up pretty early in the morning...
Just be careful when “hunting” them - they can be rough on a suspension - I find it to be like running over a brick.
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