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[–] 33 points 8 months ago (19 children)

It's funny that this meme lasted for so long. In 40 years, I have never met anyone eating frogs or any restaurant selling those things.

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago

    25 years ago it was served in my french school, once or twice a year maybe. Never saw any since.
    I remember thinking at the time it was ok, a bit like chicken.
    My biology teacher was aware of the menu and explained to us in which gruesome way they were butchered. I didn’t eat any after that. We had other "old fashioned" dishes from time to time, like veal tongue. Nobody liked that. There’s something a bit unsettling in seeing hundreds of tongues sitting in a big container

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  • [–] 0 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    I have the same experience as well. Never met anyone eating or offering frogs in my life. When I was a kid, in the first half of the 90's, I would sometimes see frozen frog legs in supermarkets, but I never saw anyone buying them and they have disappeared from french supermarkets for well over 30 years now. I think it's only local fairs and festivals and some local restaurants, arguing to keep culinary tradition alive who still serves them, definitely not everyday people. Which is ironic because almost all frogs consumed in France are imported from Indonesia. Poor frogs would be better left alone in their rainforest :(

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Those frogs are being bred in farms.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

    That's not what I read. Frog farming is difficult because they must eat live prey. So most of it is imported from places where they don't bother with farming, or environmental conservation.

    From an article in French:

    "Problème, pour les scientifiques, ces animaux sont issus "en grande majorité de populations sauvages", et "en particulier d'Indonésie, de Turquie, d'Albanie et du Vietnam"

    "Problematically for scientists, those animals come "in vast majority from wilderness populations" and "particularly from Indonesia, Turkey, Albania and Vietnam"

    Link to the article in French

    https://www.bfmtv.com/animaux/une-responsabilite-particuliere-plus-de-500-scientifiques-demandent-a-la-france-de-freiner-les-importations-de-cuisses-de-grenouilles_AN-202403090160.html

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    I've seen frogs being farmed in Thailand, albeit on a small scale. I don't think there'd be enough frogs in the wild to fulfil demand.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    I don't think there'd be enough frogs in the wild to fulfil demand.

    Yes, there isn't enough frogs in the wild for it to be sustainable at the scale they're being hunted. And that's why scientists raise the alarm about frog populations decline in those places where they are being hunted.

    From the same article I linked, still in French, which you can easily machine translate:

    "En raison de leur chasse importante, plusieurs espèces et populations connaissent déjà un déclin significatif", s'inquiètent les experts."

    ""Due to their heavy hunting, several species and populations are already experiencing a significant decline," experts worry."

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