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I can’t even remember any French recipes for frog legs. The only frog legs I ever ate were in a Chinese restaurant, with bitter sweet sauce.

TBH I don’t even know a single restaurant that have frog legs on the menu, and I can’t even think of a grocery store that sells frog legs.

I eat two dozen of snails a month though. Are they endangered too?

TL,DR I call this article absolute bullshit.

This is an entirely uninformed question: would it not be easy to breed frogs for consumption like we do other animals?

??? Frogs breed super quick and aren't that tricky to breed in captivity? I'd even go so far and say that frog meat should be rather sustainable since they eat insects which we can also breed effectively and they in turn can eat refuse from farming. I also haven't ever seen or heard about the frog being of a particular breed or "wild caught" being part of the allure, nor seen it mentioned in a menu. This whole thing is absurd.

totally stupid : i'm french and nobody eat frogs leg : it's just for tourist 🤫

I'm surprised to hear that frogs legs were still as popular as the French stereotype.

Frog and other amphibian populations worldwide have been declining due to disease, habitat destruction, and climate change.

It's time for a campaign to make frogs legs unpopular in France, like the campaign against shark fin soup in China.

I had frog legs.

They literally taste like chicken. Nothing special.

French people are very defensive and insecure about their 'culture' though, so I don't expect them to give this up.

Other French folks have suggested that this is a b******* article, so I believe them. But if in fact France needs more frogs, they can certainly have the invasive bullfrogs in the United States. They are invasive and wiping out other native species and they are big.

I demand to see French frog trappers paddling canoes around the swamps and ponds gigging frogs.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

France’s hunger for frogs’ legs is “destructive to nature” and endangering amphibians in Asia and south-east Europe, a group of scientists and vets have warned.

More than 500 experts from research, veterinary and conservation groups have called on Emmanuel Macron, the French president, to “end the overexploitation of frogs” and afford the most traded species better protections.

Most come from wild populations in Indonesia, Turkey and Albania, as well as from farms in Vietnam, according to a study by Robin des Bois and Pro Wildlife, two conservation nonprofits that organised the letter.

More frogs’ legs are eaten in France – often fried in batter or sautéed with garlic and parsley – than in any other country in the EU.

Alain Moussu, the president of the Vétérinaires pour la Biodiversité, a third group that organised the letter, said veterinarians have joined the initiative in large numbers.

“They are both sensitive to the cruelty that prevails in this market and concerned about the ecological imbalances caused by the collapse of amphibian populations,” he said.

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Imagine the riot if we try to take frog legs away from the fucking French.