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Posted Wed Jan 21 2009: from New Scientist:
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Appetite for frogs' legs harming wild populations
... [C]onservationists are warning that frogs could be going the same way as the cod. Gastronomic demand, they report, is depleting regional populations to the point of no return.... Bickford estimates that between 180 million to over a billion frogs are harvested each year. "That is based on both sound data and an estimate of local consumption for just Indonesia and China," he says. "The actual number I suspect is quite a bit larger and my 180 million bare minimum is almost laughably conservative."
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Lyle says: "That's 360 million cooked legs that taste like chicken!"
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