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If someone can figure out how to scale up deboning Asian Carp and turning them into fish sticks [1], then there are many infested waterways that would feed many
by yourapostasy 2y ago
If someone can figure out how to scale up deboning Asian Carp and turning them into fish sticks [1], then there are many infested waterways that would feed many, and the ground up remains make great plant fertilizer and animal feed. They're easy to catch at volume in the infested areas.
Hopefully, AI advances will help make it economically easy to kill in the wild invasive Burmese pythons at scale with robots, though unfortunately, they contain excessive mercury and lead [2] and are more unsuitable for eating than tuna. I have no idea what could be done with their carcasses. Still boggles my mind to this day that we polluted our planet with coal smoke to the extent that it is dangerous to eat some fish too frequently, a science fiction/fantasy notion to our ancestors a mere 1-2 generations ago, and we still outstrip by 2X volcanic eruptions and undersea vents pumping out mercury into the atmosphere.
Colorado has controlled its feral pig population, but the infestation is out of control in the southern US and could do with someone figuring out an economical way to scale up killing them in the wild. Frozen to -10 degrees F at the innermost parts for five minutes, kills the parasites that infest them, and many people are accustomed to eating pork can handle the gamier feral version.
Lionfish in the Caribbean are invasive, but also difficult to economically kill at scale in the wild. Tastes like buttery grouper.
There are lots of invasive species in the wild that need to be harvested, but the cost per kg is way higher than current conventional sources of protein, and hunter/fisher-sourced channels, while appreciated for the gesture, still lack the scale we seek to foundationally address the income precarity that pervades our civilization.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaZHPToxb3Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaZHPToxb3Y
[2] https://www.naplesnews.com/story/news/2024/08/16/florida-python-meat-mercury-challenge/74780800007/ https://www.naplesnews.com/story/news/2024/08/16/florida-pyt...