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."

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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.

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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

Many animals cohabitate peacefully inside beaver dams, nutria included.

That said, the one animal that would chase people in our flooded parking lot was a nutria. They can act fearless.

I highly doubt this incentive to eat nutria is supported by any serious ecologists, and reads like a Palin "shoot wolves from helicopters" appeal.

What is "on the menu" is that Huggins in a moron, imo.

#3 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2025-03-01 11:39 AM

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