Scientists and vets are urging the president to afford the world’s most traded species better protections
France’s hunger for frogs’ legs is “destructive to nature” and endangering amphibians in Asia and south-east Europe, a group of scientists and vets have warned.
More than 500 experts from research, veterinary and conservation groups have called on Emmanuel Macron, the French president, to “end the overexploitation of frogs” and afford the most traded species better protections.
The EU imports the equivalent of 80-200 million frogs each year, the majority of which are consumed in France. Most come from wild populations in Indonesia, Turkey and Albania, as well as from farms in Vietnam, according to a study by Robin des Bois and Pro Wildlife, two conservation nonprofits that organised the letter.
The practice is “not at all in line” with the EU’s wildlife strategy, said Sandra Altherr, the head of science at Pro Wildlife. “It’s absurd: the natural frog populations here in Europe are protected under EU law. But the EU still tolerates the collection of millions of animals in other countries – even if this threatens the frog populations there.”
Imagine the riot if we try to take frog legs away from the fucking French.
I don’t know. I think I ate some once. Don’t know anyone that actually eat some often. Bet it’s mostly tourist traps selling them.
Wait…is it really not a common French thing? Like I didn’t think it was your hamburgers or some shit like that but I figured it was at least somewhat common over there with all the talk about it
I had frog legs.
They literally taste like chicken. Nothing special.
French people are very defensive and insecure about their ‘culture’ though, so I don’t expect them to give this up.
We don’t eat frog legs at every meal… I don’t even think the average french person will eat them once in 5 years. These are mostly for tourists
totally stupid : i’m french and nobody eat frogs leg : it’s just for tourist 🤫
I always assumed it was just for the tourists but apparently you guys actually do eat snails so god knows.
I assume it’s like all the disgusting British food, no one eats spotted dick or blood pudding because frankly it’s awful.
we don’t eat snail, we don’t eat froggs ! i’m 56 years old, never see any french eat snails or froggs.
This is an entirely uninformed question: would it not be easy to breed frogs for consumption like we do other animals?
It says they get the frogs from Vietnamese farms in part.
And I don’t see any evidence that the frogs are actually endangered, that sounds like a supposition.
The thing with frogs is that they’re damned good at reproduction. Of course some of them will be threatened, I’m not doubting it even though the article doesn’t present evidence. But yeah, farming shouldn’t be too hard. For many frog species at least.
I’m surprised to hear that frogs legs were still as popular as the French stereotype.
It’s time for a campaign to make frogs legs unpopular in France, like the campaign against shark fin soup in China.
Same. I’m French and do not know anyone who has ever eaten frogs.
??? Frogs breed super quick and aren’t that tricky to breed in captivity? I’d even go so far and say that frog meat should be rather sustainable since they eat insects which we can also breed effectively and they in turn can eat refuse from farming. I also haven’t ever seen or heard about the frog being of a particular breed or “wild caught” being part of the allure, nor seen it mentioned in a menu. This whole thing is absurd.
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It could very well be tourists coming over who eat them.
Garlic snail is fucking amazing.
Garlic snot
