Mango season may be months away, but if you live in South Florida today, your trees may be ripe for the picking — of iguanas. Iguana meat, dubbed “chicken of the trees,”
started showing up on Facebook Marketplace overnight, as the temperature
dipped into the 40s. The green iguanas are an
invasive species,
stunned lifeless by South Florida’s occasional cold snaps, and they die
if the chilly weather holds. The National Weather Service
even tweeted to watch out for falling iguanas. That apparently makes them easy pickings for backyard harvesters. Several ads for skinned and butchered iguanas, looking like Peking
not-duck, were posted in Miami, Doral and Homestead. Some of the ads,
however, were posted days ago and show iguana meat that has clearly been
frozen (though not by South Florida’s climate)...
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