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I found this article interesting. I wonder how many local restaurants would include invasive species meat on their menus, and/or if this meat could be sold locally at a reasonable price to the public. As mentioned in the article, exporting to the mainland is an option if there is a demand for it, and donating some to the local food banks would help a lot of folks.
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Great post! Thanks for the link.
That is a principal of permaculture..."the problem is the solution". We were actually just discussing the pigs last night. Smoke meat!
Mongoose casserole? 
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Some would consider humans an invasive species. gack!
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01-03-2022, 09:43 PM
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Sounds like a great idea to me (eating the animals, not necessarily the humans) but it would be interesting to hear a vegan's thoughts on this. Any takers?
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Asking a vegan about eating meat is like asking a Jewish person about eating pork. They aren't going to do it so why bother?
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Q: You know how you can tell who is vegan at a party?
A: They will tell you!
Couldn't resist.
Conspiracy fact (at least as I remember it): There used to be a very nice lady who offered world class chili at one or two of the farmers markets back in the day. She was at S.P.A.C.E. and possibly also the Pahoa one. She had beef chili and also vegan chili and they looked exactly alike. It was the one time in the week that a vegan could maybe break the rules a little, or get confused, or whatever. The chili lady had quite the dilemma because she hardly sold any of the vegan chili and yet the vegans were her best customers and she always sold out of the carnivore kine! So each week she dutifully prepared the vegan chili and offered it right next to the beef chili in order to provide cover for her customers. Meanwhile, lots of happy vegans got to enjoy a hearty bowl of yummy protein in a nice social setting.
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Next thing you know they'll be breeding us like cattle for food!
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Who? Vegans? Makes sense. You never hear them talk about not eating humans...
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01-04-2022, 02:52 PM
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Kulana Foods, Hilo used to process & sell ʻwildʻ feral boar & goat meat, featured at some of the local restaurants & ʻTaste of the Rangeʻ ...
I know that they had some issues with their smaller animal processing, so maybe they have stopped that in the last couple of years, but they still process feral cattle...
& every hunter here is hunting & processing & eating feral invasives, including pig, goat, cow, pheasants, chicken, turkey, dove (just to name a few) & on some of the other islands, axis deer....
& vegans can have their feast on the many invasive plants here, many of which are edible...
ETA: for a fun time, talk to Jack Jeffery about when they tried to use culled ungulates for food as a way to remove them from Hakalau..... If you are doing a program to remove ALL ungulates from many areas they like to hang in, it gets a might bit expensive to get the meat out!
