I've seen a Florida snake swallow a 5ft alligator, it was a Python though and not an Anaconda: https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/5-foot-gator-found-in-st... ... I don't think it's the only one that has been found in Florida either (one busted out of the snake).
Unsustainable animal products from nuisance invasive species to feed otherwise controversial, high end, luxury European industries (read Italian) .
- Florida python for handbags
- Wild Texas boar for sausages and salumes.
Etc.
Hire FL and TX locals in a Uber model.
Unsustainable is the key challenge. The business goal is to get rid of the invasive species, but how to build a business whose goal is to be a not going concern?
Or rather you can and individual hunters sometimes do. But the various diseases and parasites wild boars tend to have makes them uneconomical to harvest for resale.
I thought that was a cooking issue? That is Americans like rarer, more parasitic prone, cooking. Would this be a concern in a traditional salume made with (albeit Italian) wild boar?
No idea about the Italian wild boar. The issue is that the American FDA regulates foods packaged for sale, and the amount of processing that would be needed to render American wild boar safe according to their standards would make the enterprise uneconomical.
These regulations don't apply to Americans who hunt, kill, and eat wild boar for their own private consumption. But yeah, if they do so they should cook it thoroughly.
I mean, you can, and I've occasionally found wild boar at Central Market in Austin. But... it's very rare, and I suspect the boar wasn't that "wild". There are ranches in Texas that dedicate themselves to hunting, so they'll have serious deer fencing to keep deer in, and they'll even buy and breed deer to have enough for hunting season. It wouldn't surprise me if there's also ranches that breed "wild" boar for hunting.
> how to build a business whose goal is to be a not going concern?
You've hit upon the recurring problem with such ideas. There's a rich history of programs to incentive people to solve issues with invasive or troublesome species. They seem to almost invariably fail and also often end up making the original problem worse. My search-fu is failing me but IIRC classic examples include paying for rats in England and venomous snakes in India. Both of which ended up causing people to factory farm the desired species. Perversely, once officials realized what was happening the incentive programs were halted, the farmers stopped and their uncashed crops escaped into the wild making the problem even worse.
There is at least one person doing this with pythons. The guys name is dusty and he was on the tv shows guardians of the glades and swamp people serpent invasion. I believe this is his store page: https://www.pythonwildman.com/
