It is no longer secret that the consumption of snakes and other larger ones identified as as python in this region is on the rise. The rate people eat python, a big snake in some part of Cross
river state is alarming.
In Ibeae Oil Palm Estate Camp,
now Wilmar international, Biase Plantation, people prefer eating the python to
other meats.
People are sometimes
shocked when friends tell them that they eat python meat, due to its high mercury
content without which it would not be a bad idea to make the legless animal a
house staple.
It is amazing how consumers claim the python meat is soft in taste and rubbery in texture which pairs
it with the taste of big fish.
However, research raises
eyebrows on the content of mercury Bioaccumulation in everglades pythons. They
observed that python contain mercury, and the concentration is higher than Mine
Waste and that they have never found anything that has this high level of
mercury that’s still alive. The mercury level cited in the study is shocking
compared to anything else that humans should eat.
That the level of mercury
among 24 samples was 5.5ppm more than younger and longer, even older snakes
So we use this medium to
caution the consumption of Python snakes in the region.
For further argument, research on the subject is a
Report By
Platini Abit
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