Eat a squirrel, help save species

The International Herald Tribune reports on the new British culinary trend of squirrel meat.

Squirrels are abundant, so eating them helps to keep their population in check.

Also the native red squirrel is being pushed out by the non-native and more aggressive North American gray.

Enter the "Save Our Squirrels" campaign begun in 2006 to rescue Britain's red squirrels by piquing the nation's appetite for their marauding North American cousins. With a rallying motto of "Save a red, eat a gray!" the campaign created a market for culled squirrel meat.

British bon vivants suddenly couldn't get enough squirrel. Television chefs were preparing it, cookbooks were extolling it, farmers' markets were selling out of it and restaurants in many places were offering it on the menu.

Read the full story: Saving a squirrel by eating one