{"id":74,"date":"2008-05-11T08:57:56","date_gmt":"2008-05-11T06:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/2008\/05\/11\/a_new_solution_for_invasive_species\/"},"modified":"2008-05-11T08:57:56","modified_gmt":"2008-05-11T06:57:56","slug":"a_new_solution_for_invasive_species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/2008\/05\/11\/a_new_solution_for_invasive_species\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Solution for Invasive Species"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In today&#8217;s Observer there is a story that will gladden the hearts of conservationists across the UK.  The new way to tackle invasive species is <a href=\"http:\/\/lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk\/food\/story\/0,,2279357,00.html\">to eat them<\/a>.    According to the paper, grey squirrel (the invasive American species) is the latest meat to hit the shelves.  The normal methods of eradication is not going to work (well, I guess we could put poisoned peanuts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=u4Eb1Nt6WIE\">in ridiculous places where no sane animal would go<\/a>), so why not eat them?<br \/>\nThe Beast agrees of course, although he wonders why we bother to burn it first.  He also doesn&#8217;t understand the difference between nasty American gr*-a-*ey squirrels and good European red squirrels, which might be a problem if we asked him to help.  In fairness, he has only tasted the European species.<br \/>\nThis is an effort I can get behind, and I think it should be tried for other species too.  But it might take a bit longer before someone comes up with a good recipe for cane toad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today&#8217;s Observer there is a story that will gladden the hearts of conservationists across the UK. The new way to tackle invasive species is to eat them. According to the paper, grey squirrel (the invasive American species) is the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/2008\/05\/11\/a_new_solution_for_invasive_species\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}