Eat a Big Rat-Like Rodent, U.S. Says

Keep an Invasive Species in Check: Eat a Big Rat-Like Rodent, U.S. Says
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Americans should hunt and cook nutrias, an invasive species found in marshy areas, to help curb their population.
'They have to be un-alived': Wildlife officials encourage Floridians to eat this invasive rodent
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service encourages people to eat nutria to combat the invasive species causing environmental damage.
US Fish and Wildlife is begging you to eat more invasive marsh rodents
Today, the rodents are also causing trouble along the Atlantic coast and in portions of California. While rodents aren’t a staple on many US dinner plates, nutria can be prepared a number of different ways depending on one’s preference.
Nutria nuisance: the invasive rodent you can eat
It’s National Invasive Species Awareness Week, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is highlighting an animal that’s causing major erosion to the banks of ditches, lakes, and other water bodies. Officials say the solution could lie in your kitchen.
New campaign encourages Texans to eat invasive swamp rats
Nutria are just one of the edible nuisance critters Fish and Wildlife is highlighting in the campaign for National Invasive Species Awareness Week. Others included were the northern snakehead, the green iguana, invasive carp, and feral hogs .
Invaded by rat-like semi-aquatic rodent species? Eat them, says US federal agency
As part of National Invasive Species Awareness Week, the federal agency highlighted the deliciousness of nutria, a dark-coloured, semi-aquatic rodent resembling a large rat or a beaver. "Eat me! Please? I'm invasive and delicious," a Facebook post from the agency read.
Wildlife officials want you to eat this rodent
Nutrias, an invasive rodent, is causing major erosion to the banks of ditches, lakes and other bodies of water in Florida.
Keep an invasive species in check: Eat this big rodent, U.S. Fish and Wildlife says
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has a suggestion to help curb the growing population of an invasive species that bears a resemblance to a very large rat: Eat them.
US wildlife officials suggest eating nutria, the invasive rodent found in California wetlands
As part of National Invasive Species Awareness Week, U.S. wildlife officials are suggesting eating nutria. Nutria, an invasive species of rodent which may grow up to 2 feet long, weigh 20 pounds, and eat a quarter of their body weight in vegetation each day,
'Invasive and delicious': The federal government is begging people to eat this massive, harmful rodent species
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is urging Americans to fill their bellies with invasive species that are wreaking havoc on habitats across the country. As part of its National Invasive Species Awareness Week,
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