London restaurant serves invasive species

The Manila Times

London restaurant serves invasive species  Silo, a zero-waste restaurant in London, serves invasive species on its menu to promote awareness. Silo's director, Douglas McMaster, finds these ingredients delicious. At a recent dinner, they featured American Signal crayfish, which were introduced in the 1970s as a food source. Unfortunately, these crayfish have harmed the native white claw crayfish, leading to an 80-90 percent decline in their populations in the UK's waterways.   Video by AFP  Video by AFP  Subscribe to The Manila Times Channel - https://tmt.ph/YTSubscribe    Visit our website at https://www.manilatimes.net    Follow us:  Facebook - https://tmt.ph/facebook  Instagram - https://tmt.ph/instagram  Twitter - https://tmt.ph/twitter  DailyMotion - https://tmt.ph/dailymotion    Subscribe to our Digital Edition - https://tmt.ph/digital    Check out our Podcasts:  Spotify - https://tmt.ph/spotify  Apple Podcasts - https://tmt.ph/applepodcasts  Amazon Music - https://tmt.ph/amazonmusic  Deezer: https://tmt.ph/deezer  Stitcher: https://tmt.ph/stitcher Tune In: https://tmt.ph/tunein   #TheManilaTimes #London #InvasiveSpecies

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00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]

00:23 So American signal crayfish, Japanese knotweed, gray

00:27 squirrel, these are all forces of destruction

00:31 within our environment.

00:32 They're all edible, and they're all delicious.

00:34 You have to take my word for it.

00:36 [CHATTER]

01:00 For a dinner like tonight, we've probably spent 1,000

01:03 hours of time to bring it to reality.

01:07 And that's because, yeah, these are not

01:09 commercially available.

01:11 And so I hope that a lot of entrepreneurial foodies see

01:16 this as an opportunity to get gray squirrel on multiple

01:20 menus, American signal crayfish, to see it become an

01:25 accessible resource for chefs and their menus.

01:31 The idea isn't to populize these invasive species.

01:34 So there's so much of a demand that we allow them to become

01:38 more invasive or overpopulate even further just to keep up

01:43 with that demand.

01:44 So that would be the terrible thing to occur.

01:49 I hope that we bring back balance within the ecosystem,

01:54 and then we stop eating them.

01:56 [CHATTER]

02:14 Consuming invasive non-native species isn't something that I

02:18 would encourage.

02:20 The problem is that if you take the American signal

02:22 crayfish, it was actually bought to the country in the

02:24 first place as a food source.

02:27 And there's a potential that people will even introduce it

02:31 themselves if they think that it can be then

02:34 collected as food.

02:36 And we've seen what a devastating effect this can

02:38 have on the local ecosystems.

02:41 Invasive non-native species are a major

02:44 threat to biodiversity.

02:47 Really, they're one of the major reasons in addition to,

02:52 for example, habitat change, climate change, invasive

02:55 non-native species are another major reason for the decline

02:58 of so many species that are threatened with extinction.

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