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1. • • 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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   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).

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

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   What is Broussard's plan to bring hippopotamuses to America?

   • Subscribe to Salon's weekly newsletter The Vulgar Scientist. Broussard's proposal, as backed by all three men, was straightforward: Congress should allocate $250,000 to go to Africa and bring hippopotamuses from that continent to the United States.

   The true story of when Congress almost released wild hippos into the

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   How did hippopotamus ranching work?

   • The plan was this: hippopotamus ranching. Hippos imported from Africa and raised in the bayous of Louisiana, proponents argued, would provide a delicious new source of protein for a meat-hungry nation. In the process, the animals would gobble up the invasive water hyacinth that was killing fish and choking off waterways.

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   Did hippopotamus ranching solve a national meat shortage?

   • In the early years of the last century, the U.S. Congress considered a bold and ingenious plan that would simultaneously solve two pressing problems -- a national meat shortage and a growing ecological crisis. The plan was this: hippopotamus ranching.

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   When did hippopotamus ranching start?

   • Jon Mooallem: The dawn of hippopotamus ranching in America was 1910. There was a very serious meat shortage. These were peak years of immigration, cities were exploding, the meat industry was getting bigger and uglier but it could not keep up. America had always solved its problems by moving west, but now the frontier was closed.

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   How did Irwin convince Broussard of the Hippo solution?

   • Irwin was the one who convinced Broussard of the hippo solution’s merits, arguing that “any resistance to [the] idea came down to simple small-mindedness,” an inability on the part of Americans to embrace a new food source.

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3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › American_Hippo_billAmerican Hippo bill - Wikipedia

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   House Resolution 23261, also known as the "American Hippo bill", was a bill introduced by Representative Robert F. Broussard of Louisiana in 1910 to authorize the importation and release of hippopotamuses into the bayous of the state.

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   Dec 20, 2013 · In the early years of the last century, the U.S. Congress considered a bold and ingenious plan that would simultaneously solve two pressing problems -- a national meat shortage and a growing...

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   Sep 4, 2022 · Rep. Robert Broussard, D-La., was concerned about how a plant known as pontederia crassipes, or the common water hyacinth, was choking off waterways and killing the fish (by soaking up oxygen in...

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   May 30, 2023 · 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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   Apr 25, 2024 · In March 1910, Broussard introduced bill H.R. 23261, which became known as the American Hippo bill. It would appropriate $250,000 (about $8.2 million today) for the importation of useful new animals into the United States.

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   Jan 2, 2014 · Broussard introduced H.R. 23261, commonly known as the hippo bill, “to appropriate $250,000 for the importation of useful new animals into the United States.”