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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The day I start fretting about the environmental impact of my food is the day I need to be locked up.
Tongue was considered choice.
So they want to ‘teach’ us to eat rats for ‘environmental reasons’
Be prepared for Florida python and black snack cuisine, and of course NYC domesticated sewer rat on the school lunch menu.
Can a ‘herd’ of 22 of them sustain a family of six?? Yeah, but only if all six are vegetarians. Gotta save Mother Erf, ya’know.
He expected it would taste like fudge?
Let them eat themselves!
In about 1948 there was a similar appeal to eat rabbits. My dad was bitten and got some rabbits. Before long we had more and more and more.
He couldn’t or even perhaps wouldn’t sell the excess. We ate rabbit a lot. It was or actually is, good. There are lots of ways to prepare it.
The real problem was the killing and skinning. It was actual work. maybe on a farm with out a day job it might be ok.
There had been a depression and then a war that prompted such thinking.
Well....I will be going into the black market cattle business should that come to pass....see ya on the range! LOL
Rabbits are not rodents, although they do carry similar diseases. I'm thinking something like leporidae?
“NYC rats on the menu.” If the SHTF, this wouldn’t surprise me at all. My bro went to Nam to teach English. Rat Is a staple.
You know Manderson Pooper? I’m impressed.
A pig that likes donuts???? UNFREEPINGBELIEVABLE
A tethered guinea pig in the everglades will attract a python that can be killed and a bounty coillected. With the bounty one can buy a steak
That's a horrible thing to say about me.
These apply to people who breed them for any purpose (meat, to fur, to Easter presents), and to amateurs as well as professionals.
What that means is even if you give your rabbits away, there are restrictions on how many and under what conditions.
None of the marketing order rules on rabbits make much sense in terms of how cattle and chickens are raised, and that's where folks get in trouble raising rabbits.
We've discussed the marketing orders on FR in the past ~ they actually do make sense for commercial rabbit raisers, but basically if you want to raise rabbits for home consumption, keep them there! Don't give away even one!
>>I know a guy who ate gerbil, said it tasted like crap.<<
Did you ask him what crap tastes like?
And the local cops would bring said pig boxes of donuts.
Call me unadventurous (whoever said NYC sewer rats, RIGHT! Eeewww..no way!) but I'll stick to grilled cheese and veg. if that's the choice!
Just got back from Peru where we were served them as a delicacy. They taste like chicken.
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