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From Pets To Plates: Why More People Are Eating Guinea Pigs
NPR ^ | April 2, 2013 | Alastair Bland

Posted on 04/21/2013 3:30:01 PM PDT by grundle

Matt Miller, an Idaho-based science writer with The Nature Conservancy, says rodents and other small livestock represent a low-impact meat alternative to carbon-costly beef. Miller, who is writing a book about the ecological benefits of eating unconventional meats, visited Colombia several years ago. At the time, he says, conservation groups were expressing concern about local ranchers clearing forest to provide pasture for their cattle — activity that was causing erosion and water pollution.

"They were encouraging people to switch from cattle to guinea pigs," Miller says. "Guinea pigs don't require the land that cattle do. They can be kept in backyards, or in your home. They're docile and easy to raise."

According to activists, eating guinea pig is good for the environment.

To render a pound of meat, a cow, he explains, may require 8 pounds of feed. A guinea pig only needs 4.

... a guinea pig herd consisting of two males and 20 females can sustain itself while providing meat for a family of six.


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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: agriculture; cuy; dining; eats; efficiency; guineamcnuggets; guineapigs; meat; rodents; vegans; vegetarian; vegetarianism; vegetarians
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To: grundle

So they want to ‘teach’ us to eat rats for ‘environmental reasons’ so that when SHTF in the coming communist regime, we are already...nudged in that direction. Stupid Eco fascists...lol!!

So we will get environmentally friendly rats to eat, a bowl of porridge, beet vodka, 1 state run TV channel, and one light bulb!!

Forward Comrades!!


21 posted on 04/21/2013 3:48:09 PM PDT by penelopesire (TIME FOR OBAMA TO ANSWER FOR BENGHAZI UNDER OATH!!)
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To: grundle

Squirrels and rabbits are better.


22 posted on 04/21/2013 3:48:09 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: grundle

There are a whole lot more critters I’d polish off before starting on the guinea pigs.


23 posted on 04/21/2013 3:48:25 PM PDT by Wyrd bið ful aræd (Gone Galt, 11/07/12)
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To: Perseverando

i read that they taste nothing like chicken.
Posted this on FaceBook and my replies so far, everyone wants to try them.
(just gives me the shivers)


24 posted on 04/21/2013 3:51:10 PM PDT by svcw (If you are dead when your heart stops, why aren't you alive when it starts.)
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To: jonrick46

Yuck..... sucking the brains out was the worst part.


25 posted on 04/21/2013 3:51:36 PM PDT by Gator113 ( ~just keep livin~ I drink good wine, listen to good music and dream good dreams.)
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To: Doogle

LOL...


26 posted on 04/21/2013 3:52:03 PM PDT by Gator113 ( ~just keep livin~ I drink good wine, listen to good music and dream good dreams.)
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To: jonrick46

don’t wanna miss that good chin meat!


27 posted on 04/21/2013 3:52:05 PM PDT by Rio (Tempis Fugit.)
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To: grundle
says rodents and other small livestock represent a low-impact meat alternative to carbon-costly beef

Anybody else remember the SNL sketch with Bill Murray where he stars in a direct-response TV ad offering a kit to start your own chinchilla farm for $19.95? It's a great way to save money: pets for the kids, fur coats for Mom, and meat for the whole family. One of my favorite moments is seeing Murray smiling to his wife as he holds up a huge sandwich: "Honey, I can't get enough of these chinch-burgers!"

28 posted on 04/21/2013 3:53:07 PM PDT by SamuraiScot
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To: tflabo

Squirrel is delicious but benefits by marinading, cuy is more tender.


29 posted on 04/21/2013 3:54:20 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: nomad
they`re actually very friendly animals

So are cows, chickens, and ducks.

30 posted on 04/21/2013 3:55:34 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: grundle
From Pets To Plates: Why More People Are Eating Guinea Pigs

Obama-conomy?

31 posted on 04/21/2013 3:55:48 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: grundle

When they start eating gerbils, the GIBLETS (GLBT) Crowd’s gonna go nutz! LOL.


32 posted on 04/21/2013 3:55:58 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (No one can go back and make a new start, but anyone can start from now, and make a new ending.)
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To: tflabo

Wiki says: ‘....Members of non-rodent orders, such as Chiroptera (bats), Scandentia (treeshrews), Soricomorpha (shrews and moles), Lagomorpha (hares, rabbits and pikas) and mustelid carnivores such as weasels and mink, are sometimes confused with rodents....” which means rabbits are even further removed from being rat relatives than you imagined. Just catching up on these critters they seem to have originated in North America where the greater number of rabbit species as well as rabbits still reside.


33 posted on 04/21/2013 3:56:38 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: null and void

Can you imagine...

“Daddy, why do we have to eat ‘Sweet Guinnea’ ?

“Well Suzy, President Obama says it is good for the environment”

“But Daddy, I don’t want to eat Sweet Guinnea, I love her”

“Honey, I am sure that President Obama loved his dog Bo too, but he ate him to show us all His sacrifice for the greater good. The least we can do to support our country and heal our planet is to eat our hamster”

“Oh....Ok, Daddy. What time does ‘All My Comrades’ come on TV?”


34 posted on 04/21/2013 3:58:47 PM PDT by penelopesire (TIME FOR OBAMA TO ANSWER FOR BENGHAZI UNDER OATH!!)
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To: grundle

Gator’s a little easier to kill as God decided for whatever reason not to give gators the cute gene.


35 posted on 04/21/2013 3:59:29 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: piasa
And pigs. Always come running when you approach the pen.

I knew a pig that, no kidding, loved donuts.

36 posted on 04/21/2013 4:01:10 PM PDT by Wyrd bið ful aræd (Gone Galt, 11/07/12)
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To: grundle
I ate squirrel as a kid sometimes. There are squirrels in trees back of my house and I have a pellet gun that will kill them without making noise for neighbors to hear, so I would do that rather than eat the rat family.

I have also stored bunches of canned meat. The squirrels would only die if they tried to eat my food plants, which they would try. Their life is up to them, stay out of my food plants or DIE.

37 posted on 04/21/2013 4:02:27 PM PDT by Marcella (Prepping can save your life today. Going Galt is freedom.)
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To: carriage_hill

I know a guy who ate gerbil, said it tasted like crap.


38 posted on 04/21/2013 4:02:36 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Blood of Tyrants

I’ve had all kinds of meat -rat, bat, guinea pigs, squirrel, goat, rabbit, dog, lizard, snake, croc, etc - but nothing beats a good steak or BBQ ribs. And to all those people who like organ meats ( with maybe the exception of liver), there’s a reason peasants had to eat them. They couldn’t afford good meat. Ribeye or thymus? Lungs or fillet? Chitterlings or ribs?

I think I’ll go and throw a couple of NY strips on the barbie.


39 posted on 04/21/2013 4:02:40 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: grundle

Peruvians have been eating them for millenia.


40 posted on 04/21/2013 4:04:39 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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