habitats by tearing up vegetation.Major Ideas
- Nationwide, invasive species such as the wild boar and Asian carp are destroying farms and fisheries, causing economic damage that has been estimated at $120 billion a year.
- A solution to controlled invasives species is by adding them to the human diet
- An example of this is the stalked tunicate -also known by Asian Sea Squirt- which has taken over what used to be blue mussel habitat from Maine to New Jersey
- The alien sea squirt, which is indigenous to the Philippines, is considered a fouling organism and a pest by the shellfish industry.
- In South Korea sea squirt is a delicacy sometimes aphrodisiac.
- The author has his own restaurant where he serves invasive species such as Japanese knotweed (grows quickly in clusters and crowds out other herbaceous species-name one of the world's hundred worst invasive species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and is currently thriving in 39 states.) he serves with fresh stevia leaves, fresh kefir lime leaves and a splash of lemon juice.
- The mute swan an invasive specie that damage the environment by hurting the marshes and shallow-water habitats by tearing up vegetation. Lai explains how this mute swan makes ; a delicious dish with Kudzu.
- Kudzu is an invasive specie that suffocate native forests.
- Making invasive species into dishes is a solution to control them.
Author's Main Point Idea
Lai believes that the solution to control invasive species is by making the species into edible dishes. He describes the variety of invasive species that could be convert into delicious dishes. He shares his experience about his first time eating sea squirt how it was very disgusting. The second time he tried he had use a different approach in consuming the sea squirt. He goes on describing different invasives species and where they are being invasive what they are destroying. But he goes on describing how to make these invasives species into delicacies. He describes which ingredients will make the best fit the invasive species into a great species. He believes that best way to control invasive species is making them into dishes.
Lai believes that the solution to control invasive species is by making the species into edible dishes. He describes the variety of invasive species that could be convert into delicious dishes. He shares his experience about his first time eating sea squirt how it was very disgusting. The second time he tried he had use a different approach in consuming the sea squirt. He goes on describing different invasives species and where they are being invasive what they are destroying. But he goes on describing how to make these invasives species into delicacies. He describes which ingredients will make the best fit the invasive species into a great species. He believes that best way to control invasive species is making them into dishes.
My Reflection
My Reflection
I love eating new food. But I'm not very interesting in digesting any invasive species any time soon. Maybe in the future when my stomach has build a strong taste for swan and sea squirt then I will eat them. I guess that if we started to consume invasive species in places that they are not native to we will be controlling the invasive specie population. This article is very informative on why invasive species such as the kudzu is a threat to our native forest. Lai suggests that eating the kudzu would a good method to controlling that invasive specie.
I love eating new food. But I'm not very interesting in digesting any invasive species any time soon. Maybe in the future when my stomach has build a strong taste for swan and sea squirt then I will eat them. I guess that if we started to consume invasive species in places that they are not native to we will be controlling the invasive specie population. This article is very informative on why invasive species such as the kudzu is a threat to our native forest. Lai suggests that eating the kudzu would a good method to controlling that invasive specie.