[SunnyUsa]

I visited Florida this past summer, did the Sea World thing....kids loved the manatees (they are they freakiest looking animals) Of course we had to have a 'stuffed animal manatee' come home on the plane with us! Rebelbase:

Manatee Meat? yuck!

I bet it's real fatty...I wonder if it tastes like chicken! ;)

[Rebelbase]

Googling "manatee meat" provided this article from 1997:

BOGOTA (Reuter) - At least four Manatees have been caught and killed by fishermen off Colombia's Caribbean coast over the past month, Bogota's El Tiempo newspaper said Monday.

It said the killings occurred near Cartagena, the country's prime tourist resort, and added that the flesh of of the gregarious sea mammals was being sold on local markets as "pork" to avoid drawing the wrath of local environmentalists.

Many Colombian cookbooks continue to include recipes for Manatee, even though it is one of the world's most endangered species.

One such cookbook, Gran Libro de la Cocina Colombiana, says the fleshy, flippered "sea cows" boast four types of meat -- alternately similar to pork, beef, fish and tortoise -- and recommends that all of them be deep fried.

[seekthetruth]

"I bet it's real fatty...wonder if it tastes like chicken?"
Actually it tastes like a cross between a Florida Panther and a Spotted Owl!