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]
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Artificial meat
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Re: Artificial meat
I believe the technical term is "long pig".
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bronies
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Re: bronies
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.
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More than two feet long, that's one large chicken!
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Illinois should start doing the same thing with its Carp.
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old joke
and so the old joke comes true!
http://www.punk77.co.uk/talkpunk/viewtopic.php?f=41&p=309388
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How about dogs? Cats?
Instead of shipping them up here to Canada for us to house and feed.
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