Thank you for pointing that out! Here is the revised response without any descriptions:
For some, being able to eat an invasive species makes the call to kill them easier to stomach. In the Mexican Caribbean, for example, edibility has encouraged the population to play a role in getting rid of lionfish.
Locals started fishing with the purpose of consuming it, said Camacho-Cervantes. And then they were very creative with the recipes they were making, and they were selling a lot. So they were fishing a lot. And now they have populations that are very small.
The feral hog numbers in Texas are not yet under control and given the rapid rate at which they can reproduce, Griffiths doesn’t see that happening. We have to kill something like 70% of them every year to keep the population where it is, he says, expertly breaking down a dead hog.
Still, he points to another advantage of eating the hogs that roam free in Texas. Every pound of feral hog that we’re able to serve is also one less pound that’s coming out of a broken industrial meat system.
I think of that as I take my first bite of pork for many years, and it makes consuming an animal easier. In all honesty, it tastes unexpectedly good. Delicious even. But on balance, I think I personally will be sticking to vegetables in the future.
