Cacs & c00ns

[Lord Beasley]

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/31/travel/racc00n-meat-products-germany-scli-intl/index.html

CNN - A butcher in northeast Germany has come up with what he believes is an innovative solution to the country’s growing racc00n problem: turning them into sausages and other meat products.

Michael Reiss, a hunter who set up a butcher’s shop in Kade, about 90 kilometers (60 miles) west of Berlin, in 2022, told CNN Wednesday that he developed the idea after trying to think of a standout product to take to the Green Week international food fair.

He realized that racc00ns who are killed as pests are simply thrown in the bin, and decided to ask local officials if they could instead be processed and turned into food.

After receiving the green light, Reiss started making his “racc00n balls,” meatballs made from racc00n meat, which he said turned out to be a hit at the fair and with customers at his shop, which is called Wildererhütte.

While Reiss’ racc00n products have become a novelty attraction for visitors to Kade, they are also a response to a serious problem, he says.

After being introduced to Germany for use in fur farms in the 1920s, racc00ns were first released into the wild in 1934, according to the Nature And Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU).

Since then, the mammals, who are highly adaptable and can live in towns and cities as well as forests and grasslands, have bred swiftly.

There are now an estimated 2 million racc00ns in Germany, reported German press agency DPA, citing researchers at the Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt.

The animals, who are originally from North America, typically weigh around 10 kilograms (22 pounds), but large males can reach 20 kilograms (44 pounds).

They now represent a danger to domestic biodiversity, especially the reptiles and amphibians that they eat, according to Germany’s Senckenberg Nature Research Society.

Such is their impact on endangered species that some have called for racc00n populations to be managed.

NABU, one of the country’s largest and best known conservation societies, says that hunting them is not the solution.

Although they were initially protected, racc00ns are now able to be hunted in almost every German state, but how to deal with them remains controversial.

Instead measures should be undertaken to better protect endangered species in general – meaning they’d be less at risk from racc00ns, says the group.

Basically this crigga wants to make legit food products of c00n meat. and basically, thats akin to bushmeat spreading diseases

 

[cyndaquil]

how many grams of protein is in it?