Internet Says No Way To Eating Invasive Beaver-Like Rodent After Wildlife Officials Suggest Putting It On The Menu
Image via Shutterstock As we've previously covered, the US Fish and Wildlife Services would really like for you to turn your aim and dinner forks to an invasive beaver-like rodent called a nutria. They're trying to get people amped up about eating the "delicious" but "invasive" species.
US Fish and Wildlife is begging you to eat more invasive marsh rodents
Today, the rodents are also causing trouble along the Atlantic coast and in portions of California. While rodents aren’t a staple on many US dinner plates, nutria can be prepared a number of different ways depending on one’s preference.
Keep an Invasive Species in Check: Eat a Big Rat-Like Rodent, U.S. Says
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Americans should hunt and cook nutrias, an invasive species found in marshy areas, to help curb their population.
US wildlife officials suggest eating nutria, the invasive rodent found in California wetlands
According to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Nutria were first introduced to the U.S. from South America by fur traders in the 1889, and subsequently found in the state in the 1940s and ‘50s, though they were thought to be eradicated in the 1970s.
Wildlife officials encourage eating invasive nutria to control populations
U.S. Fish and Wildlife officials are letting folks know that nutria, a large invasive rodent visually similar to beavers, are edible.
Here’s why wildlife officials say you should eat rodents, lizards and other critters: ‘Chicken of the trees’
Eat a rodent, save the planet. That’s the advice from the US Fish & Wildlife Service, which says putting tasty rodents, iguanas, boars and other invasive critters on the menu could help protect the ecosystem.
Wildlife officials urge people to eat 'invasive' rodent infesting parts of the US
US wildlife officials have urged citizens to consider adding nutria to their diets in an attempt to control the population of the "invasive" species. Nutria are a large semi-aquatic rodent native to South America.
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Invaded by rat-like semi-aquatic rodent species? Eat them, says US federal agency
As part of National Invasive Species Awareness Week, the federal agency highlighted the deliciousness of nutria, a ...