Friday, February 28, 2025

Save the cats and dogs, eat the Nutria

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is urging Americans to fill their bellies with invasive species that are wreaking havoc on habitats across the country. As part of its National Invasive Species Awareness Week, which ends Friday, the agency released a list of five invasive creatures that they're encouraging people to hunt and eat as a way to protect native species. "Some of the biggest ecological nightmares are critters that don't belong here," the USFWS wrote in a public advisory released late last week. "Invasive species outcompete native wildlife, destroy habitats, and mess up ecosystems. But rather than just complaining about them, let's put them on the menu."

More

At the top of the list is the nutria, a large, water-loving rodent that resembles a beaver without the trademark flat tail. Nutria are native to the swamps of South America. They were brought to the U.S. by fur traders in the 1930s, and many were released into the wild after the market for nutria fur dried up. Since then, nutria have been a menace in marshlands in several regions of the country " particularly along the Gulf Coast, but also on the Atlantic coast and in the Pacific Northwest and parts of California.

Comments

You eat possum. What's the diff?

#1 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-02-28 07:37 PM

... The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is urging Americans to fill their bellies with invasive species that are wreaking havoc on habitats across the country. ...

Is this a good or a bad thing?

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-02-28 07:41 PM

Drudge Retort Headlines

Trump and Vance Ambush Zelensky (229 comments)

MAGAs Fume After Being Fired (77 comments)

Zelensky to Meet Trump in Washington to Sign Minerals Deal (48 comments)

Video: Near Miss Between Southwest Airlines Flight, Jet on Chicago Runway (40 comments)

Trump Allies' Deportation Plan Calls for Camps and Citizen Army (33 comments)

Bezos says WaPo Opinion Section will Focus on 'personal liberties and free markets' (33 comments)

Jobless Claims Spike (27 comments)

Trump Deported Fewer People Than It Fired in First Month (19 comments)

At Least Now We Know the Truth (18 comments)

Longtime GOP Pollster: Trump Voters are Getting 'Buyers' Remorse' (17 comments)