Eating Frog Legs May Cause An Amphibian Extinction

Oh No!!

According to Scientific American, each year, an average of 2,280 metric tons of frog legs are imported into the United States alone (that’s somewhere between 450 million and 1.1 billion frogs)!! Holyshiz.

In ├óΓé¼┼ôCanap├â┬⌐s to Extinction: The International Trade in Frogs’ Legs and Its Ecological Impact,├óΓé¼┬¥ a report (PDF) released July 26 by wildlife conservation groups Pro Wildlife, Defenders of Wildlife and the Animal Welfare Institute, billions of frogs are getting nabbed and sliced in order to appear on the plate each year.

But the international frog trade isn’t just criticized for depleting natural frog populations. It also has a hand in spreading chytrid fungus, which is linked to the decline and disappearance of not only frogs, but also other amphibian species.

Save the Frogs, an organization based in Santa Cruz, claims that an estimated 62% of the bullfrogs entering California from frog farms in Asia are infected with the fungus.

EW!!

[Image via WENN.]