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1. • • When the animals were good and fat (on average, hippos weigh between 3,000 and 9,920 pounds), farmers could take their inventory to slaughter, revitalizing America’s low-cost meat supply. But hippo meat, or “lake cow bacon,” as the New York Times called it, would be just the start.
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   Could hippo meat be a 'lake Cow Bacon'?

   • When the animals were good and fat (on average, hippos weigh between 3,000 and 9,920 pounds), farmers could take their inventory to slaughter, revitalizing America’s low-cost meat supply. But hippo meat, or “lake cow bacon,” as the New York Times called it, would be just the start.

   How the U.S. Almost Became a Nation of Hippo Ranchers

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   What would hippo meat taste like if the Hippo bill was passed?

   • Irwin, for his part, testified that hippo meat tasted like a “combination of pork and beef.” If the Hippo Bill were passed, no American, whatever their socioeconomic status, would ever have to eat a meatless meal again.

   How the U.S. Almost Became a Nation of Hippo Ranchers

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   Are water hyacinths Hippo food?

   • Even if water hyacinths were hippo culinary staples, they would be a poor choice of food. Hyacinths are “95 percent water by weight,” says Jason A. Ferrell, director of the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences Center for Aquatic and Invasive Plants.

   How the U.S. Almost Became a Nation of Hippo Ranchers

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   What if the Hippo bill was passed?

   • If the Hippo Bill were passed, no American, whatever their socioeconomic status, would ever have to eat a meatless meal again. For just $250,000 (about $8 million today), America’s “unoccupied and unused” government lands could be filled with wild and domestic animals from around the globe, the bill stated.

   How the U.S. Almost Became a Nation of Hippo Ranchers

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   Do Hippo poop?

   • Hippos may not spend much time eating while in the water, but they do poop prolifically—an activity that creates an ecological threat as weighty as the one Broussard was trying to solve in the first place. Hippo waste adds to water’s nutritional load, propelling the overgrowth of algae while simultaneously killing native plants and fish.

   How the U.S. Almost Became a Nation of Hippo Ranchers

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   Did Broussard support hippopotamus ranching?

   • The only one way to solve both problems at once, argued Louisiana Representative Robert F. Broussard, was to embrace hippopotamus ranching. On March 24, 1910, Broussard stood before the House Committee on Agriculture to lay out the details of his “American Hippo Bill” (House Resolution 23261).

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3. www.ripleys.com › stories › hippo-meatHippo… Meat? - Ripley's Believe It or Not!

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   Jan 10, 2024 · The New York Times coined the phrase “lake cow bacon,” describing the flavor of the hippo meat, and some believed it would only be a short time before it was readily available in America. William Newton Irvin from the U.S. Department of Agriculture was also an advocate of hippo importation and testified on the men’s behalf.

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5. www.bunkhistory.org › resources › how-the-us-almostHow the U.S. Almost Became a Nation of Hippo Ranchers

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   May 30, 2023 · When the animals were good and fat (on average, hippos weigh between 3,000 and 9,920 pounds), farmers could take their inventory to slaughter, revitalizing America’s low-cost meat supply. But hippo meat, or “lake cow bacon,” as the New York Times called it, would be just the start.

6. roaring.earth › lake-cow-bacon-how-america-onceWe Once Tried to Import Hippos to America… For Food

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   Sep 28, 2021 · Louisiana Congressman Robert Broussard officially introduced the “Hippo Bill,” seeking $250,000 to import the animals into the United States. “Lake cow bacon” as they called it, could be available to feed the American people within only a few years. But that might have been just a start.

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7. blogs.ifas.ufl.edu › caip › 2022/04/13Hippos and Hyacinth: How Hippos Almost Called Florida Home

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   Apr 13, 2022 · They quickly branded the new meat product as “Lake Cow Bacon” and wrote a bill (H.R. 23261), which later became known as The American Hippo Bill, to pitch the new idea to congress. A congressional hearing was arranged and experts in food production and African animals set about to convince a hungry, plant-jammed nation that hippos were the ...

8. www.agweb.com › news › businessMeat Madness: How American Farmers Almost Became Hippo ...

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   Jul 24, 2024 · Irwin advocated for the immediate importation of African mammals to the U.S., starting with hippos in the Southeast to raise 1 million pounds of meat—lake cow bacon—at a yearly value of...

9. camtrader.ca › hippo-meat-nearly-became-anHippo Meat Nearly Became An American Food Staple

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   The New York Times coined the phrase “lake cow bacon,” describing the flavor of the hippo meat, and some believed it would only be a short time before it was readily available in America. William Newton Irvin from the U.S. Department of Agriculture was also an advocate of hippo importation and testified on the men’s behalf.