The Iguana and You!

I know that this series is supposed to be about TAZ, but I couldn’t pass this up.  The Iguana is a really little fellow and apparently on the endangered species list by those unknown folks that put things there.

I just read a really terrible story (well the story itself was not terrible, the subject was terrible) about some lady being caught trying to import iguana meat into the US of A.  This is a big No-No according to the U.S. Customs department.

Not only did she try to import this questionable meat, she didn’t have a license.  Imagine that!  Do you think that the license in question was to import an endangered species’ meat or to import anything?

Maybe the license in question was like our fishing license or hunting license.  Maybe it is a way to help finance another of our many governmental agencies.

Whatever!

Read the article and decide for yourself.

I, for one, feel that there are not enough Iguana’s in the world to take care of our ravenous appetites for meat, so perhaps we should eat beef, or chicken, or whatever, but not Iguanas.

And, they are really little, so it takes a whole bunch of them to make a meal.  You can take one cow and feed a whole bunch of us.

And, when we have people over, we get two chickens, but normally one can feed us a couple of times (and more if we make sandwiches).

Both the cow and the chicken are part of our food chain; we grow them to supply us with the needed nourishment.  And, I’m sure there are licenses required all over the place for those activities.

So, what I seem to be saying is quite killing off these little guys.  They are needed elsewhere in the food chain, we don’t need to help.

And, about those licenses?????