Saturday, December 21, 2013 12:18:09 PM
The Crazy, Ingenious Plan to Bring Hippopotamus Ranching to America
12.20.13
In the early years of the last century, the U.S. Congress considered a bold and ingenious plan that would simultaneously solve two pressing problems — a national meat shortage and a growing ecological crisis. The plan was this: hippopotamus ranching.
Hippos imported from Africa and raised in the bayous of Louisiana, proponents argued, would provide a delicious new source of protein for a meat-hungry nation. In the process, the animals would gobble up the invasive water hyacinth that was killing fish and choking off waterways. It would be an epic win-win. A bill was introduced in Congress, and newspaper editorials extolled the culinary virtues of “lake cow bacon.”
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http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/12/hippopotamus-ranching/ [with comments]
(was referring to the whales -- came from land, are hippos' closing living relatives [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whale ])
12.20.13
In the early years of the last century, the U.S. Congress considered a bold and ingenious plan that would simultaneously solve two pressing problems — a national meat shortage and a growing ecological crisis. The plan was this: hippopotamus ranching.
Hippos imported from Africa and raised in the bayous of Louisiana, proponents argued, would provide a delicious new source of protein for a meat-hungry nation. In the process, the animals would gobble up the invasive water hyacinth that was killing fish and choking off waterways. It would be an epic win-win. A bill was introduced in Congress, and newspaper editorials extolled the culinary virtues of “lake cow bacon.”
[...]
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/12/hippopotamus-ranching/ [with comments]
(was referring to the whales -- came from land, are hippos' closing living relatives [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whale ])
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upon the Right of Election, 1790
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