Frog Legs -- Safe or not?

[Stefan-A]

By that reasoning we shouldn't be eating farmed fish because the wild stock is in severe trouble.

Not even close.

These are farmed bullfrog legs. Usually imported from South American farms, where bullfrogs don't belong in the first place. Bullfrog farming is of course, how they got into my area of the country, and many other places where they are invasive and destructive to native frogs.

By buying them, you encourage farming where they don't belong.

[ConcinusMan]

Well just the opposite happened here in the Northwest. They were originally brought here around the year 1900 by people that thought they would get rich farming them. Well, the global prices dropped so severely that most farmers abandoned the farms or simply released them. Now, if there was significant demand, that would encourage harvesting pressure on these non native populations, but that's not happening.

There is some harvesting done here in the U.S. even within the frogs native range. It still isn't causing the numbers to drop. It simply keeps them from increasing in numbers.

I highly doubt that bullfrogs are in any sort of decline. Harvesting is needed in some areas to control the population. They were already introduced long ago into areas where they don't belong. They will remain there whether we buy them or not. At least if we buy them, they get harvested.

I guess my point is, by buying them in modern times we are certainly not encouraging them to be farmed where they don't belong. The damage there was done more than a century ago. By buying them now, we only encourage that they get harvested where they already exist.

I don't see a dang thing wrong with harvesting bullfrogs. We could sure do without them in the Pacific Northwest.

[Starling96]

I agree.
Ive found some that have baby red ear sliders in there stomach!
they litterally eat anything that goes in front of them