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The case for eating alligators (or not)

By letter2self on January 15, 2024



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2017 review of alligator aquaculture, covering history and current industry practice (not free): https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/23308249.2017.1355350

1999 study on mercury levels in alligator meat, showing farmed gators have hardly any (probably because they’re so young): https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.1039.9927&rep=rep1&type=pdf#:~:text=Results%20in%20our%20study%20document,fish%20flesh%20(LDEQ%201998).

2017 case report of a salmonella outbreak on a Louisiana alligator farm: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0300985816677149?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori:rid:crossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub%20%200pubmed

2012 study showing alligator fat can be used for biodiesel: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ie201000s

2020 injunction against California law that bans gator products: https://docs.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/california/caedce/2:2019cv02471/365983/22

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