Posted on 03/14/2024 1:50:30 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Pythons turn their food into meat pretty efficiently, a study finds, making them an intriguing alternative to climate-unfriendly cows.
Put aside your chicken cutlets and meatloaf and say hello to python curries and satay skewers. Some snake scientists think eating these reptiles—already customary or at least acceptable in parts of the world—might help lessen the damage our food choices have on the environment.
With some eight billion people on the planet today, all of whom require protein to stay healthy, finding new sources of these nutrients is a crucial issue.
But how do you get from the challenge of providing sufficient protein to farming pythons for meat? For Dan Natusch, a herpetologist at Macquarie University in Australia, the idea came about tangentially. He and his colleagues were working with existing commercial python farms in Vietnam and Thailand to determine whether they could distinguish wild-bred snakes from captive-bred ones.
And of course, it all depends on whether people will take to eating python. Natusch says python meat is “pretty tasty and versatile” and argues that by his tally, a billion people in Southeast and East Asia, as well as parts of Latin America and Africa, already consider snake meat a culturally acceptable food. “It is really just Western cultures (which have few naturally occurring large reptiles) that haven’t been exposed to it,” he says.
Scientific American
What a joke. It’s disgusting and pathetic how many once reputable science oriented organizations have sold out to the communist climate kooks.
Do they really believe this shiat, or are they just whores for sale?
No thank you. Not interested in snakes or bugs.
Eel, called Bombay ducks in Mumbai was amazing fish. Just melted in mouth.
I bet that you would if you were at a table forced to eat snake while your "betters" ate steak and lectured you that your suffering is saving Gia.
“...a billion people in Southeast and East Asia, as well as parts of Latin America and Africa, already consider snake meat a culturally acceptable food.”
Being determined culturally acceptable with people that are starving to death and forced to eat things to stay alive is not what I would call acceptable.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7360430/
I went through this site and I couldn’t find snake anywhere. So it leads me to believe if it is consumed, it would be by those that have to eat it and not part of their traditional diet if they can afford not to.
So much for someone trying to BS people. IO jhaven’t had pythin, but I’ve had fried rattlesnake. I wouldn’t like a steady diet of it.
wy69
lol
Used to kill them and bring them to cook and eat, I think it was Apache, back in the early 70’s late 60’s while I was stationed at Fort Sam
I do not want spiders and snakes or bugs.
We just want the food that has always been people food and the climate hoax be damned.
I tried fried rattlesnake once at the San Patricio Rattlesnake Roundup.
It tasted okay. Not much meat. You definitely you gotta watch for the bones!
What about Python boots?
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Eat ze bugz.
I have eaten rattlesnakes, copperheads, and pythons and all taste rather bland (yes, like chicken). The only problem I have is that it is expensive in the restaurants and since it is bland there is nothing that makes me want to pay the premium. I kill a copperhead about every two years, but my wife refuses to cook them.
Yes I just saw a new restaurant chain... SNAKE & SHAKE!! 🤓
Snake Steak and Shake! Tastes like Chicken, sort of...
Now it should be called: Scientific Globalist or Scientific UnAmerican... 🤓
Franchise this baby !!!!! it will go over like hotcakes(if they were lead balloons).......
What will happen to all the new medicines coming from snake venom....How will humanity survive?????? Sarcasm for now, but the future???????
The crossover point was Reagan deploying Pershing missiles in Europe. SciAm had article after article claiming it would cause WWIII. After that there was always a “soft science (i.e., political science, sociology, etc) article in every monthly issue. That’s when I stopped subscribing.
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