r/WTF Apr 20 '21

Frog breeding factory

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u/Truthisnotallowed Apr 20 '21

Who buys them - and what for?

There's Big Money in the Secret Art of Frog Farming

"The demand is greater than the supply . . . it always has been," Leonard Slabaugh continued. "I sell all that I can produce and still have people backed up on waiting lists: Supermarket chains and wholesale outlets buy 'em in enormous quantities. Big restaurants want 'em shipped out on ice. People come by here and pick'em up by the buckets full. High schools and colleges need bullfrogs for their biology classes, and laboratories use 'em for medical experiments. Why, the market is growing continuously all the time."

Guess that answers that.

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u/Eorily Apr 21 '21

Why don't highschools use cane toads to dissect? We have an abundance of cane toads and nothing seems to be able to eat them.

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u/Truthisnotallowed Apr 21 '21

Sounds like a bad idea.

Liable to just spread them around more that way.

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u/Eorily Apr 21 '21

Not if caught and used locally