Snakes: The new, high-protein superfood

https://phys.org/news/2024-03-snakes-high-protein-superfood.html

by wglb • 2 years ago

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snakeyjake• 2 years ago

Python tastes good but I don’t know if it is easier to keep 100kgs of pythons (one huge-ass 10 meter python or many smaller ones) to get 88kgs of meat compared to a single hog which yields roughly the same amount.

My grandparents and parents kept hogs so I have a little experience with dealing with them. Despite their rowdiness one hog has got to be easier to deal with than a 10 meter python or (more likely) many smaller examples- energy input be damned.

Steven420• 2 years ago

Not to mention pigs can eat lots of different types of food including your foods scraps

toss1• 2 years ago

So, a good reason to hunt the invasive species to local extinction in the Everglades, where they are ruining the ecosystem.

The annual hunting contest is popular but insufficient. Wild, free-range, organic python meat could be a trend.

pvaldes2• 2 years ago

(Smart guy. Totally grasped the subjacent idea)

aprao4• 2 years ago

Every passing day, I am more happy I am born as an Indian because I know it is possible to live a healthy life without having to resort to the consumption of protein at any cost.

spprashant2• 2 years ago

And what makes the Indian diet healthy? Is there any data which shows improved health outcomes?

aprao4• 2 years ago

I don't know if the diet is healthy or not - I am just stating that the culture itself does not place an emphasis on protein to the extent that snakes or insects become a viable source of food, but still results in healthy lifespans of 90-100 years (anecdotal of course) which is a desirable outcome for me personally. You could say that adding snake meat to my diet will increase my lifespan by 20 years and that would still seem like an outrageous choice for me to make.

ode• 2 years ago

What does you diet consist of?

torlok• 2 years ago

Pythons may not need much water, and don't use energy to maintain body temperature, but their food surely does. Farming predators seems to me like doubling the amount of work per kg of meat.

They need very little food and will eat rodents and other pests attacking food crops.

How would you even begin to take advantage of that when farming pythons. First let them loose onto a field, then somehow capture them before harvest?

aitchnyu• 2 years ago

The article states python fat is medicinal, but how? Googling around, it seems Chinese water snakes have good omega-3 composition, but thats it.

nikolay• 2 years ago

Thanks, but no thanks! I will stick to beef and pork, you eat bugs and reptiles if it suits you well!

pvaldes2• 2 years ago

That reminds me the classic love affair between reptilian guts and Salmonella...

One in each two of your Py-burger donors carried a surprise. I hope they are well cooked.

fuzzfactor• 2 years ago

I had a co-worker who had camped out in the west a lot and told me about the time they killed a big rattlesnake.

It was tough.

Those things don't want to die.

Well they decided they were going to cook it over the campfire and eat it, so they skinned and filleted it first.

It was tough.

The skin is really difficult to cut through and there's not much meat either.

They roasted it thoroughly, it was not easy to know when it was done because it's a very low-fat meat, and doesn't sizzle like you would expect.

It was tough.

Said it was more or less like Snake Jerky.

Snakes: The new, high-protein superfood

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