Lizards, snakes, owls saved from cooking pot
Malaysian officials seize $830,000 worth of creatures bound for restaurants


KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Malaysian authorities have seized $830,000 worth of exotic animals, including porcupines and pythons, that were destined for the cooking pot, a newspaper reported on Thursday.

Among the animals were 7,000 clouded monitor lizards, 1,000 owls, crested serpent eagles, mousedeer, wild pigs and pangolins, which are not endangered but protected by law. The authorities also recovered bear parts.

A 49-year old man, who kept dead animals in several freezers and live ones in the backyard of his house in the southern state of Johor, had been charged, the Star newspaper said.

Abd Rasid Samsudin, the head of Malaysia's Wildlife and National Parks department, said the animals fetched high prices at restaurants in China, Hong Kong and Vietnam.

The meats, cooked with herbs, could fetch as much as 300 ringgit ($83.57) a bowl, he said.

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People in other parts of the world like to eat some strange things, but I guess everyone can't raise cows and chickens :lol:

I hear it taste like chicken.....

People in other parts of the world like to eat some strange things, but I guess everyone can't raise cows and chickens :lol:
I realize that but obviously illegal there to eat exotics but each to his own

I hear it taste like chicken.....
I heard that too but dont ever want to find out for myself

I heard that too but dont ever want to find out for myself
me either!!

i have ate plenty of crazy things overseas...scorpions, spiders, lizards,rhinocerous beetle larvae, and even drank cobras blood and a cray halucenogenic drink of whiskey and some other part of a cobra (dont ask)

Most of it isnt bad if you just let go of preconsception te problem is when it becomes an issue of killing off endangered species

i have ate plenty of crazy things overseas...scorpions, spiders, lizards,rhinocerous beetle larvae, and even drank cobras blood and a cray halucenogenic drink of whiskey and some other part of a cobra (dont ask)

Most of it isnt bad if you just let go of preconsception te problem is when it becomes an issue of killing off endangered species
I will leave you my bro to eating all that :rockon:

I will leave you my bro to eating all that :rockon:

what can i say when you go through a jungle survivor course gotta live off something lol also ate some plants and such to stay alive as well

i have ate plenty of crazy things overseas...scorpions, spiders, lizards,rhinocerous beetle larvae, and even drank cobras blood and a cray halucenogenic drink of whiskey and some other part of a cobra (dont ask)

Most of it isnt bad if you just let go of preconsception te problem is when it becomes an issue of killing off endangered species

Yup, once you get past yucky and realize you NEED sustinance a body can take damn near anything. Nam was a place full of strange flavors too, but the tiger beer helped LOL.

Yup, once you get past yucky and realize you NEED sustinance a body can take damn near anything. Nam was a place full of strange flavors too, but the tiger beer helped LOL.
We can all say no to eating anything like that but survival takes over and you do what you need to do

Yup, once you get past yucky and realize you NEED sustinance a body can take damn near anything. Nam was a place full of strange flavors too, but the tiger beer helped LOL.

yeah no kidding asian beer and whiskey isnt the best but is better washing the stuff down with.

you know exactly what i mean by eating jungle inhabitats and such:yessir:

Since they aren't endangered so I honestly don't really see what the issue is except for the stuff that is protected. I really doubt all of it is protected just a few things that screwed him...if he would have just followed the law he would have been fine. Once again more stupid people....

Since they aren't endangered so I honestly don't really see what the issue is except for the stuff that is protected. I really doubt all of it is protected just a few things that screwed him...if he would have just followed the law he would have been fine. Once again more stupid people....
Not sure what the laws are there but he got caught with ?? was illegal

Since they aren't endangered so I honestly don't really see what the issue is except for the stuff that is protected. I really doubt all of it is protected just a few things that screwed him...if he would have just followed the law he would have been fine. Once again more stupid people....

this world sure is full of stupid people