Invasive pythons in Florida should be made into food and leather to get more people to hunt them

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SunfireAlpha01@reddit

They’re already doing that. Florida actually partnered with a fashion brand that’s now paying the bounties for the snakes, and they’re using the snakeskins to make boots and handbags and such.

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WirrkopfP@reddit

It is done, but there isn't a large scale market for it.

Snake meat doesn't taste that good and snake leather is unpopular.

If you want to wear it specifically for its environmental appeal it gets worse, because people who care for that will first assume a non ethical source for that leather. And you can't really write "made from invasive pythons" On the piece.

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bloodandpizzasauce@reddit

If there was a market for their harvest, we'd never get rid of them. People would rely on the income, snakes would get scarce, but then the human hunters themselves would breed fucktons of them to maintain their income. Obliteration needs to be the goal

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unknowingbiped@reddit

I did a feral hog hunt in Texas. I think it was Texas A&M sent me a questionnaire within a few months.

My general consensus is as follows. If they are a problem it shouldn't have cost me $600.

Hell the two we did get we butchered ourselves in their meat shed.

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Dapper-Ad9787@reddit

What's the meat like, anyway?

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unknowingbiped@reddit

Tasted like pork until around 6 months and it was abhorrent after that and it was frozen. That could be the way we cut it.

I wasn't as adventurous with less cooked hog.

Tastes a bite of venison, bloody, needs another minute, skssssssssss

The best Philly cheese steak ive had was pronghorn antelope. Most out of pocket good meals was something along the lines of beaver burgundy. It was like beef burgundy but a little more greasy but not unpleasant. If you're vaguely interested ive eat a lot of wilderness.

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Bubbly-Pirate-3311@reddit

Well snakes are hard to eat cuz there aren't really any parts that don't have bones somewhere, and snakeskin isn't particularly fashionable right now

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Neon_Nuxx@reddit

But imagine, an animal made almost entirely of ribs.

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We_R_the_Penguins@reddit

Because people will start breeding them.

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DoookieMaxx@reddit

Plus …the added bonus …the people drawn to hunt them would likely be the kind of person we wouldn’t mind if a few went …missing.

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SirFelsenAxt@reddit

They are.

Many Florida communities also sponsor lionfish frys as they are invasive and dangerous to the local fish.

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Brandoncarsonart@reddit

You want people to start python farms?

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Kindly-Might-1879@reddit

Careful…you want incentives to hunt them without creating a market for breeding them further.

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WoolooOfWallStreet@reddit

Jackson Landers’s book “Eating Aliens” goes over stuff like that

I don’t know if they bring up Python specifically, but carp, iguana, and lionfish are mentioned I’m pretty sure

(Been wanting to read that book for a while)

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GSilky@reddit

There is a big effort to get people eating lionfish in the Caribbean. The problem is processing the dangerous things. Apparently they taste fine and people can't tell them apart from any other fish they are told they are getting.

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GSilky@reddit

They are. Same with the wild boars. Now, if we could just get the pythons and boars set on each other, I would probably buy a ticket.

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GhoulTimePersists@reddit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive

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seppukucoconuts@reddit

I believe they let some people hunt them, but don’t want a lot of people doing it because they’ll damage the area.

A bunch of drunk snake hunting rednecks will cause more damage than pythons.

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TerrapinMagus@reddit

I have eaten python before, and can honestly say I would prefer tire rubber.

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arrarium@reddit

There are (some places that do that kind of thing) [https://floridapythonleather.com/]

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Fragraham@reddit

If you want to hunt them, feel free to do whatever you want with the carcass.

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Trick_Minute2259@reddit

"That snake looks delicious. What part do you think I'm about to eat?"

"Uh, basically, a snake don't have parts, but, um, if I had to call it anything, uh, I would say it's his knee."

"Great, his knee...and what are we having for desert?"

(Bug zapper sounds and a sqeak)

"Squirrel."

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ecrane2018@reddit

It’s better to kill them and not use them, then let them destroy the natural ecosystem. Most people don’t like snake so even if they were made into food people wouldn’t buy it, snake skin has sort gone out of fashion so there’s no demand there. If there was demand people would be doing it to make money