Hunting and Eating Invasive Iguanas | National Geographic
They’re invasive species in Puerto Rico, and we’re trying to control that problem so we could start eating them and we can start hunting them.
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We don't want this to become like a crazy war against the green iguana. We do it desta cozy big reason, but we should do dignity and win swab respectfully.
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Oh Bryn Dondo no ii sabisu rápido para ayudar our economy Oporto Rico. It’s something very common in the rest of the world: if you have a problem, we can basically eat them.
In terms of eating here in Porto Rico, at least people don't like eating reptiles. One thing is for our culture to live it weird, to start eating on reptiles and pinyon reptiles, because if you go to Panama, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Colombia, it is part of the diet.
People tend to eat it; there is a culture for that in Central and South America. But I think it's something that we could build upon here in Porto Rico. We should eat them locally; brochure, we should export them.
My name is Roberto Hernandez, I’m the executive chef at Emilio restaurant in Washington DC, and today we’re cooking.
It smelled like fish, it felt like chicken in their hands, but it looked like red meat. So it’s a completely different experience for me as a chef in the kitchen, and all the things that you can do with width iguana and all the different flavors you can develop.
I think it is a pretty good item on a menu. You want us, for one thing, it's very well known, it’s really well documented that the 1s are a very good source of protein, very lean.
It's very high in protein, but it’s a very low-fat meat. Iguana can be prepared fry, stew, we can do one of popcorn, grill it, roasted. It’s all about the imagination of whoever is doing it.
This you want to meet, we're gonna eat today, comes from Canova nas, Porto Rico. It has all the FDA licenses and all the permits it needs to be exporting this item.
If I didn’t know if you'd wanna, I probably would have been so skinny, but I’m trying it, and I actually really liked it.
For me, it had more because it’s to you, but it's nice that you can have, you know, these different kinds of textures in the same kind of meat, so it really gives it different flavors.
This few are very good, fantastic. This was a great experience. It was beyond what I ever thought it would be.
The meat itself was really, really tender, which I didn’t expect at all. The popcorn chicken is delicious, I mean, it's not chicken, actually, it's iguana.
I really liked it, and if I can go for seconds, we need to go through the proper channels to make it into an industry in Puerto Rico.
The major problem, and the reason why the Department of Health hasn’t approved it, is Salmonella. The same thing happens with chicken, eggs, and chicken meat, and turkey meat.
So that’s something that if you have a series of regulations to keep the meat nice and healthy, I don’t see any problem.
Why not? If you never had a 1o before, give it a chance and grab a bite.