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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsThe Crazy, Ingenious Plan to Bring Hippopotamus Ranching to America
In the early years of the last century, the U.S. Congress considered a bold and ingenious plan that would simultaneously solve two pressing problems a national meat shortage and a growing ecological crisis. The plan was this: hippopotamus ranching.
Hippos imported from Africa and raised in the bayous of Louisiana, proponents argued, would provide a delicious new source of protein for a meat-hungry nation. In the process, the animals would gobble up the invasive water hyacinth that was killing fish and choking off waterways. It would be an epic win-win. A bill was introduced in Congress, and newspaper editorials extolled the culinary virtues of lake cow bacon.
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the image of Clive Bundy in the above picture immediately brought to mind a new mascot for the TOP (formerly the GOP).
The elephant would be out
to be replaced by the Hippo-Critter
the resemblance is uncanny
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The Crazy, Ingenious Plan to Bring Hippopotamus Ranching to America (Original Post)
ashling
Jun 2014
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pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)1. I don't like to call it a ranch. I think of it as a hippo campus.
ashling
(25,771 posts)2. Which is certainly in keeping with my GOP idea
as they have no long or short term memory
Leme
(1,092 posts)3. I am anti zoo for a few reasons i guess
so it would not surprise me that much if zoos hope for more near extinctions so they can find more reasons to exist
Jenoch
(7,720 posts)4. If in fact that story about hippo ranching in the
bayous was real and had occurred, I can see that there would be feral hippo hunting by now and the good 'ol Louisiana boys would be lovin' it today.