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My first thought was: are they edible? The venom is in the skin and shoulders. & apparently the answer is yes, if you kill them in the freezer and skin them. h
by panglott 10y ago
My first thought was: are they edible? The venom is in the skin and shoulders. & apparently the answer is yes, if you kill them in the freezer and skin them.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2634736/How-like-CANE-TOAD-cooked-Australian-food-blogger-uses-pest-species-cook-dishes-make-French-blush.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2634736/How-like-CAN...
Harvesting for human or animal consumption or fertilizer is about the only thing we can do about the Asian carp invasion of the Mississippi River. There are now some commercial carp fisheries in Kentucky for this. You can't angle for them because they're filter feeders, but they can be snagged, netted, or bowfished.
http://www.citylab.com/work/2014/11/kentucky-hopes-youll-eat-its-invasive-carp/382844/ http://www.citylab.com/work/2014/11/kentucky-hopes-youll-eat...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWYm_inOAgg&t=2s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWYm_inOAgg&t=2s
- Jedd 10y agoReplace 'edible' with 'usable' ... as the leather apparently is quite tough, and there's been quite some good work on that front. However, as TFA points out, there's 1.5 billion cane toads in AU, and even if we exported a whole lotta shoes, handbags, etc ... it's not going to make much of a dent in this frustratingly renewable resource. Aside -- back to 'are they edible' -- there is some interesting adaptive traits being observed[1] with native animals working out how to kill, and selectively consume components of these things, without dying. Unfortunately lots of animals are still dying after eating these things. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptations_of_Australian_animals_to_cane_toads https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptations_of_Australian_anim...