DailyDirt: Exporting Weird Meats
from the urls-we-dig-up dept
Some people don’t eat meat at all for a variety of reasons, and some omnivores are just picky about the types of meat they eat. There are a lot of other animals besides cows and pigs. Here are just a few less commonly consumed meats that seem more suitable for exporting.
- Puerto Rico is planning to get rid of its overpopulation of iguanas by exporting the meat of this lizard — and selling it for up to $6 per pound. These reptiles aren’t native to the island, but since they were introduced in the 1970s, the creatures have thrived — and currently outnumber the human population in Puerto Rico. [url]
- There’s an interesting outlier in the trade imbalance between the US and China — American chicken farmers supply China with a vast number of chicken feet. And US researchers somewhere are working on genetically modified chickens to grow more than two feet… [url]
- After years without USDA funding for the inspection of slaughterhouses for horses, Congress lifted the inspection ban in 2011. Horse flesh isn’t expected to become a widely popular entree in the US, but some 200,000 horses per year could be processed and exported. [url]
- To discover more food-related links, check out what’s floating around in StumbleUpon. [url]
By the way, StumbleUpon can also recommend some good Techdirt articles, too.
Filed Under: chicken feet, china, horses, iguanas, meat, puerto rico
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Comments on “DailyDirt: Exporting Weird Meats”
Artificial meat
I can’t wait ’till we start using that artificial, lab-grown meat we’ve been hearing about. Wonder what a panda, or tiger would taste like? Or maybe even… a human?
bronies
the bronies wont be too happy with the last one
bronies
Brony here, and your comment made me wonder:
Perusing the source article, they only mention horses, but would these rules really apply to equines in general? I have had tasty donkey sausage (har har), but it was not for sale. I am told that it is a traditional Spanish dish.
The AP article is inaccessible, so I am at something of a loss.
Actually, imma vegetarian so I don’t really care about all this.
“And US researchers somewhere are working on genetically modified chickens to grow more than two feet…”
More than two feet long, that’s one large chicken!
“Puerto Rico is planning to get rid of its overpopulation of iguanas by exporting the meat of this lizard.”
Illinois should start doing the same thing with its Carp.
Artificial meat
“Or maybe even… a human?”
I believe the technical term is “long pig”.
old joke
US researchers somewhere are working on genetically modified chickens to grow more than two feet…
and so the old joke comes true!
http://www.punk77.co.uk/talkpunk/viewtopic.php?f=41&p=309388
“Horse flesh isn’t expected to become a widely popular entree in the US, but some 200,000 horses per year could be processed and exported.”
How about dogs? Cats?
Instead of shipping them up here to Canada for us to house and feed.
I knew it! The reptilian invasion began years ago! And people say I’m crazy…
David Icke may have something to say about this . . .