Nutria: Conspiracy or Our Salvation?

I heard they're vegetarian, right? So no risk of them eating nasty carrion or anything. And they're like 30 lbs. Basically like beavers or rabbits, eh? They sound like a really good source of protein to me! If I lived in LA, and if I ate meat, I'd start setting some traps and experimenting with some recipes...

Adorable little mini-beaver

I'm not trapping anything, that's my boyfriends job, lol. I'm just gonna sit on my porch drinking sweet tea and when one of those oversized rats comes near me, I'll blast him with my 12 gauge.

you can have the carcass. make yourself a nice hat.

Once you get over the initial shock that you're basically eating a rat, it tastes damn good. Sorta like some really tender duck meat, it's not chicken-y at all, and it's mostly dark meat.

Um, Oregon here.
Believe they were brought in to raise for the pelts, back when mink was so highly desirable.

They look like a cross between a beaver, HUGE rat, weasel, opossum,
and the dogs of hell. With walrus teeth.

They are mean if cornered, or feeling threatened, and they are not near as as shy as a creature that hideous looking should be. Maybe even slightly aggressive, if they meet you eye to eye.

They multiply big time.

Everyone I know, either runs or shoots.

At least they are mostly nocturnal.

That's disgusting.

Why would you want to eat that? yuck...nasty girl

They were brought here for the fur and when hurricane Camille or Betsy hit their cages were destroyed and they have been running free ever since. They do horrible damage to the levees too. They are so bad the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries started the recipe promotion to hopefully thin out the population. Yummy crock-pot recipe at the link below.

[link to www.nutria.com]

After Katrina they were infesting the Metairie/New Orleans area so bad the cops would run boats down the canals and bayous in the middle of city shooting the rats. There is an episode of the Steven Stegal show that shows them doing this.

They are the kudzu of the animal kingdom.

They make great cat food.


Nutria in a can maybe ?


Grab your .22 and go shoot a bunch of them. Cook them down till they are braised and tender with its own gravy sauce.


Can them up and slap on a Label.

Jolly Brown Rat branded nutria.

EEEeeewwww.... have you even seen one? Skin tail just like a huge giant RAT....yuk....just the thought of eating one has me.....just eeeeewwwww. They are vicious around here. They do not run from people and they will bare their teeth at people when they are startled. yuk

What? I never said I was gonna eat them. Learn to read fucktard.

I have heard of certain times and locations having an actual bounty on them and a reward for exterminating them.

I think like kudzu, the chances of this getting totally out of control is quite likely.

no one is paying us in georgia yet.

[link to www.npr.org]


too bad paula deen has diabeetus now, it's really put a damper on my enthusiasm for her recipes, even though she's family and all. otherwise, her butter basted bacon wrapped deep fried Donutria with a side of gravy would sure hit the spot right about now.






























































"One day the angels came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them."


Job 1:6

Make 'em into dogfood if you can't stomach them yourselves. If things got really bad -- you'd eat 'em, sure enough. People have eaten rats and "worse" for centuries.

Hell, I've seen booklets on how to collect common garden snails and purify them on cornmeal for cheap, easy, and gourmet protein source. I really don't understand you carnivores who fuss over meat sources like this. What's the difference between a nutria and a cow except that one looks kind of gross? I'd bet you ten to one that the meat you'd get from a nutria is way healthier than beef you'd get from a supermarket. No steroids, no antibiotics, no artificial filler.

I'm a vegetarian out of habit and out of concern for the pollution of the meat source commonly found in supermarkets. If TSHTF you bet I'd be eatin' those babies -- happily.

So hey --- there's one reason to can yourself some nutria stew. You can always trade it to me for my steady supply of Northern California herbal medicine. ;)

Start harvesting kudzu like crazy too. Make it into soups and herbal medicine -- good for your liver, good for treating alcoholism or so I hear.

Hey... someone ought to develop a nutria-and-kudzu soup recipe.

I would, but I don't live around there.

A couple of fun links:

Nutria in Japan
[link to pinktentacle.com]

Canadian Nutria Coat
[link to www.rubylane.com]

Apparently, you've never been to a cattle ranch and seen a cow up close. They're not pretty. Especially when they're laying in the mud coughing up their last meal to enjoy it all over again. You also must not live downwind of a dairy farm. It may be the smell of money to the farmer steeping in it but to anyone else an open sewer would be pleasant by comparison.

Nutria are far more attractive than cows, and smell a helluva lot better too.

No need to be radical , there is plenty of food for everybody.
If somebody in some regions of the planet appreciate fur and meat of nutria let them have it .
People will eat eachother when there is nothing else left to eat

Humboldt county?

Now you are talking. Love love love the coat!