Eating Aliens - Jackson Landers #150

ReWild Yourself

Daniel Vitalis

Health & Fitness

4.8 • 924 Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2017

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Summary

Can we eat our way out of our "invasive species" dilemma? Jackson Landers thinks that's part of the solution. The issue of invasives is becoming more prevalent as these species continue to spread, causing ecological destruction and the loss of native species and habitat all throughout our planet. As foragers and hunters, we have the opportunity to assist in the management of these non-native invasive species by targeting them when hunting and gathering.

We’ve been discussing invasive species throughout this season of ReWild Yourself Podcast, and today’s interview will be the first in an informal series investigating the topic.

Our guest Jackson Landers is here to share his personal experience with eating invasives. Jackson is an author, science writer and adventurer based out of Charlottesville, Virginia, specializing in wildlife out of place. His most recent book, Eating Aliens, chronicles a year and a half spent hunting and fishing for invasive species and finding out whether we can eat our way out of some ecological disasters. In this episode, he recounts some of the interesting invasives he’s enjoying hunting and eating — from armadillo to lionfish. We discuss the true definition of invasive species, the effectiveness of hunting invasives as a form of eradication and how you can get involved with invasive species management. Enjoy this interview, and let’s keep this conversation going as we explore managing invasive species through hunting and gathering together this season!

EPISODE BREAKDOWN:

Show Introduction:
- Hunt + gather updates: Eating mackerel and milkweed season
- Chewstick update
- Q&A: Humanely killing fish
- Q&A: Roadkill
- On Invasive Species
Introducing Jackson Landers
How Jackson got into the world of hunting and fishing
Breaking the barrier to entry into the hunting world
Credible sources for hunting journals
What led Jackson to invasive species
Hunting the invasive armadillo
Defining invasives
Humans as an invasive species
What caused the great mass extinctions of years past?
How effective is hunting invasives as a form of eradication?
Palatability and easy to eat invasives
De-extinction explained
Jackson’s prognosis for the future of human species and conversation
How to get involved with Jackson

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1:30.3	Landers he's the author of Eating Aliens and that's a book about eating invasive species as a sort of
1:36.4	solution to some of the environmental problems caused by non-native and invasive organisms.
1:42.1	We'll talk more about that in a few minutes. A couple
1:44.8	updates on the hunting and gathering front. Man the season is hot right now.
1:50.0	It's milkweed season. I'm so excited. Just posted about that today on
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