Posted on 04/21/2013 3:30:01 PM PDT by grundle
Matt Miller, an Idaho-based science writer with The Nature Conservancy, says rodents and other small livestock represent a low-impact meat alternative to carbon-costly beef. Miller, who is writing a book about the ecological benefits of eating unconventional meats, visited Colombia several years ago. At the time, he says, conservation groups were expressing concern about local ranchers clearing forest to provide pasture for their cattle — activity that was causing erosion and water pollution.
"They were encouraging people to switch from cattle to guinea pigs," Miller says. "Guinea pigs don't require the land that cattle do. They can be kept in backyards, or in your home. They're docile and easy to raise."
According to activists, eating guinea pig is good for the environment.
To render a pound of meat, a cow, he explains, may require 8 pounds of feed. A guinea pig only needs 4.
... a guinea pig herd consisting of two males and 20 females can sustain itself while providing meat for a family of six.
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So they want to ‘teach’ us to eat rats for ‘environmental reasons’ so that when SHTF in the coming communist regime, we are already...nudged in that direction. Stupid Eco fascists...lol!!
So we will get environmentally friendly rats to eat, a bowl of porridge, beet vodka, 1 state run TV channel, and one light bulb!!
Forward Comrades!!
Squirrels and rabbits are better.
There are a whole lot more critters I’d polish off before starting on the guinea pigs.
i read that they taste nothing like chicken.
Posted this on FaceBook and my replies so far, everyone wants to try them.
(just gives me the shivers)
Yuck..... sucking the brains out was the worst part.
LOL...
don’t wanna miss that good chin meat!
Anybody else remember the SNL sketch with Bill Murray where he stars in a direct-response TV ad offering a kit to start your own chinchilla farm for $19.95? It's a great way to save money: pets for the kids, fur coats for Mom, and meat for the whole family. One of my favorite moments is seeing Murray smiling to his wife as he holds up a huge sandwich: "Honey, I can't get enough of these chinch-burgers!"
Squirrel is delicious but benefits by marinading, cuy is more tender.
So are cows, chickens, and ducks.
Obama-conomy?
When they start eating gerbils, the GIBLETS (GLBT) Crowd’s gonna go nutz! LOL.
Wiki says: ‘....Members of non-rodent orders, such as Chiroptera (bats), Scandentia (treeshrews), Soricomorpha (shrews and moles), Lagomorpha (hares, rabbits and pikas) and mustelid carnivores such as weasels and mink, are sometimes confused with rodents....” which means rabbits are even further removed from being rat relatives than you imagined. Just catching up on these critters they seem to have originated in North America where the greater number of rabbit species as well as rabbits still reside.
Can you imagine...
“Daddy, why do we have to eat ‘Sweet Guinnea’ ?
“Well Suzy, President Obama says it is good for the environment”
“But Daddy, I don’t want to eat Sweet Guinnea, I love her”
“Honey, I am sure that President Obama loved his dog Bo too, but he ate him to show us all His sacrifice for the greater good. The least we can do to support our country and heal our planet is to eat our hamster”
“Oh....Ok, Daddy. What time does ‘All My Comrades’ come on TV?”
Gator’s a little easier to kill as God decided for whatever reason not to give gators the cute gene.
I knew a pig that, no kidding, loved donuts.
I have also stored bunches of canned meat. The squirrels would only die if they tried to eat my food plants, which they would try. Their life is up to them, stay out of my food plants or DIE.
I know a guy who ate gerbil, said it tasted like crap.
I’ve had all kinds of meat -rat, bat, guinea pigs, squirrel, goat, rabbit, dog, lizard, snake, croc, etc - but nothing beats a good steak or BBQ ribs. And to all those people who like organ meats ( with maybe the exception of liver), there’s a reason peasants had to eat them. They couldn’t afford good meat. Ribeye or thymus? Lungs or fillet? Chitterlings or ribs?
I think I’ll go and throw a couple of NY strips on the barbie.
Peruvians have been eating them for millenia.
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