Python burgers served up at your favourite local restaurant?

[Chris-CJ]

Honorary Research Fellow Dr Daniel Natusch from the School of Natural Sciences, found pythons convert feed into weight gain remarkably efficiently compared to conventional livestock such as chickens and cattle.

"In terms of food and protein conversion ratios, pythons outperform all mainstream agricultural species studied to date," Dr Natusch says.

"We found pythons grew rapidly to reach ‘slaughter weight’ within their first year after hatching."

Snake meat is white and very high in protein, Dr Natusch says.

The complete report here:

Snakes: The new, high-protein superfood

lighthouse.mq.edu.au

 

[Ash]

I'm sure absolutely nothing could go wrong by growing pythons as large as possible for livestock

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[crankcall]

Alligator is apparently also very healthy , if your going to raise pythons, should probably also have a gator farm .

 

[GreyGhost]

Snake is fine. It can be tough and it has the same issues as other carnivores like alligator where the meat assumes the flavor of the food fed to the animal. Feed it chicken and it tasted like chicken, feed it fish and it tastes like fish (and not in a good way), feed it rats and it tastes like? In general, we prefer herbivore meat.

EDIT:
As for "efficiently" growing compared to chicken or cattle, no ^(*&(t. Snakes are eating meat not grass and grains. You really need to consider the whole chain and what food source you need for the snakes and how much effort/money/time/space/greenhouse gas/etc it requires to raise. I don't know if you can trick a snake to eat waste products from slaughtered animals.

 

[fmp]

I can image the prep for the most expensive dish will be as such:

 

[Ash]

Man, somehow I got really old. How is Conan the Barbarian 42 years old now?!

I've had alligator and it was quite good, but it was obviously one of those meats that would suffer badly and turn into rubber by being overcooked. And what with the risk of salmonella, that would be the default. I guess that applies to a lot of theoretically risky foods though. I was in my 30's the first time I ever had a pork chop that wasn't overdone and dried out, and it was a revelation.

 

[MacDoc]

Crocs are farmed here in Aus for meat and skin. There is one near by.

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They are very tasty

I think python farming would be more difficult but the Florida swamps seem an ideal grow-op and they cull regularly now.

Barramundi farms are common here as well with very high conversion rates of veg pellets to fish protein.

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I understand a couple has turned a retired pig farm to a barramundi farm in Ontario...much to the delight of neighbours.

 

[Aens]

I've had snake. It's not bad, but will definitely be a challenge for the western palette. Nothing at all wrong with it as a source of nutrition.