‘Bizarre Foods’ host urges radical food choices — including river rats
July 30, 2012 at 7:00 pm in Duluth News Tribune
To Andrew Zimmern, 20-pound river rats called nutria and other invasive species are part of the answer to solving the world’s food problems.
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I think we should eat dogs and cats first. It would get rid of a nuisance pest animal and provide for the population. Leave the cows, lamb and chicken alone. They aren’t packs of feral cows roaming around different parts of the country attacking other animals. Besides, I found a great recipe for dog from the Philippines…
Stewed Dog (wedding style)
Recipe By : Joe Sweeney
Serving Size : 30 Preparation Time :3:00
Categories : Ethnic Philippines
3kg dog meat — * see note
1 1/2 cups vinegar
60 peppercorns — crushed
6 tablespoons salt
12 cloves garlic — crushed
1/2 cup cooking oil
6 cups onion — sliced
3 cups tomato sauce
10 cups boiling water
6 cups red pepper — cut into strips
6 pieces bay leaf
1 teaspoon tabasco sauce
1 1/2 cups liver spread — ** see note
1 whole fresh pineapple — cut 1/2 inch thick
1. First, kill a medium sized dog, then burn off the fur over a hot fire.
2. Carefully remove the skin while still warm and set aside for later (may be
used in other recpies)
3. Cut meat into 1″ cubes. Marinade meat in mixture of vinegar, peppercorn,
salt and garlic for 2 hours.
4. Fry meat in oil using a large wok over an open fire, then add onions and
chopped pineapple and suate until tender.
5. Pour in tomato sauce and boiling water, add green peper, bay leaf and
tobasco.
6. Cover and simmer over warm coals until meat is tender. Blend in liver spread
and cook for additional 5-7 minutes.
* you can substiture lamb for dog. The taste is similar, but not as pungent.
** smooth liver pate will do as well.
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This sure is good news! I wish the red plan promoters would have used an alternative inplace of the ‘old boy’ give me more money to spend on old fashioned ‘education’/ sports agenda. In this day and age, radical change is what we need! I’m heartened to see/hear about ‘online education’ and radical changes adding nutrition to the free lunch programs!
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The Asian Carp keeps spreading…now in the Mississippi upper pools (right?) but it sounds like they are tasty as all get out.
Open up season and let’s eat them, before the eat everything else…
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The issue is getting these foods into the sytem and using them. Sure, a small village in Namibia may have oysters the size of frizbees, but once that source was exposed to the world wide food chain, it would last about 3 hours and be gone. The economies of scale are huge. It needs to be able to feed over and over again. Part of the problem is what multi national agri-business finds most profitable to sell We just need to eat less meat and more veggies, less dairy and for God’s sake, stop putting our food (corn) it our gas tanks!
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