Finally, the New York Times reports on something that I’ve long advocated: using our incredible power to overfish, overharvest, and overhunt to ameliorate the problem with invasive species. I thought that there must be some way to gather and chop up Kudzu to make barbecue smoke, ala mesquite. I wondered why we didn’t try to make the zebra mussel a delicacy. I would love to see Asian carp become the next “blackened redfish.” Turns out, there are some who are trying to recast Asian carp as “Kentucky tuna.” Good enough for me. In the article, one “invasivore” as folks who eat invasive species are called, has eaten lionfish, “feral pigs, two species of iguana, armadillos, starlings, pigeons and resident Canada geese. … Our taste for passenger pigeon wiped that species out, he said.”
