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how can one resist a thread with wild theories and discussion on food

so first to the food. Copyu or nutria are found across the world. They were once a source of fur and bred for that purpose in America in particular. Somehow, maybe because they breed fast they turned into food. But if we are looking there for the source then look no further than russia and the USA.

speculation about copyu because of a couple of coincidences might be ok but becoming obsessively fixated on it with no evidence is akin to trump being fixated on winning the election. It’s sounds like the brain fart of a narcissist whose neural pathways have become so entrenched they can’t stop.

here are some samples of articles on the food

I find it interesting that the mayor in a village in Lombardy had people turn up their noses at the thought at the same time as they were being eaten in the USA and already in Moscow.

a 2010 article
Unlike their rat cousins, nutria are primarily vegetarians and have tasty flesh. In fact, extension offices in the South carry brochures with nutria recipes, something Oregonians usually can't quite seem to bring themselves to sample -- though a "Wild Food Cook-Off" at Portland State University in May, part of a social-art conference

a 2018 article
Introduced to Italy from their native South America in the 1920s, coypu are now thriving in parts of the bel paese. The giant rodents – picture a cross between a beaver and a rat – are doing so well in their adoptive home that one mayor has proposed a controversial way of reducing the population. According to Michele Marchi, the mayor of Gerre de’ Caprioli in Lombardy, Italians should develop a taste for coypu meat

There are already 18 states in the U.S. that have developed large coypu populations, some in Louisiana already making them a “delicacy.” In fact, here’s a website dedicate

The post caused controversy with many disgusted at the idea of eating rodent, while others criticised the killing of defenseless animals. Others, however, were more enthusiastic. ‘The coypu is a very clean animal and is a herbivore. I have tasted it several times, both cooked in a stew with onions and baked. I can confirm it’s better than rabbit,’ one user wrote

2016 article
Forget kale, forget quinoa. This season’s foodie craze in Moscow is homegrown, affordable and full of nutrients. It’s rat.
Well, not quite rat, but nutria, a giant orange-toothed rodent also known as coypu or river rat, and found in southern Russia. The furry, whiskered beast is finding its way on to plates at several Moscow restaurants this autumn.
Eating rodents might conjure up images of starving peasants desperate to survive, or Soviet citizens grimly making it through the siege of Leningrad, but 35-year-old chef and restaurateur Takhir Kholikberdiev has other ideas. He serves up nutria burgers and a whole range of other rodent-based dishes in a sleekly designed eatery right in the centre of Moscow.

Can fur be guilt free in everyone's eyes? In New York City, the BBC's Laura Trevelyan talks to people who hope to rebrand nutria pelt as environmentally friendly, cruelty-free fur - and take it from Louisiana swamps to Manhattan catwalks.
Model Paige Morgan poses in a blue silk dress draped with strips of what was once a swamp rat. Tiny clay skulls with jewel eyes hang off the ends of the glossy brown fur.
Fur from the swamp rat, or nutria, was popular in the 1930s among Hollywood starlets like Greta Garbo, who liked to wear nutria coats.
The gerbil-like animals - also known as coypu - were originally imported from South America, but when fur began to fall out of fashion in 1980s, the animals were released from Southern fur farms into the wilds.

BANGKOK, Thailand —
Thai peasants struggling with hard economic times are turning to a huge South American rodent to save the family farm. (Talking copyu)

2020 article about new laws in China
Wild animal species which cannot be eaten under the new law, but can be bred in captivity for any other purpose:
Hedgehog, hog badger, European badger, guinea pig, Nutria (or coypu), blue peacock, Asiatic toad, Asian common toad, Asian leaf turtle keeled box turtle, elongated tortoise, striped racer or California whipsnake (masticophis lateralis), king cobra (ophiophagus Hannah), big-eyed rat snake (ptyas dhumnades), many-banded krait snake (bungarus multicinctus), pit viper (agkistrodon contortrix), Indo-Chinese rat snake (ptyas korros), Oriental rat snake (ptyas mucosa), cobra (naja)

so plenty of opportunity across the world for copyu to be implicated. It was first peddled through the world as a source of fur only becoming viewed as a food source later.

so Italians, late comers to eating them ..... sounds far fetched to me.

even more far fetched as the intermediary with bats. Really. They are water animals and apparently wash their food before eating it. They don’t like dirt