Nduka Okafor [Nduka.Okafor@uni.edu] commented:
>Crocodile meat
>
>I was happy to learn that crocodile meat would be sold. I have eaten
>crocodile meat and it is indeed very delicious. Would be
>overstitching your efforts if you had a meat restaurant where
>you had barbecued beef from the cattle, poultry, fish,  and
>crocodile as a special treats for tourists who might visit your farm.

I am glad to hear from you that crocodile meat is very delicious. Where did
you have this opportunity to taste crocodile meat ?

If I were a tourist to the Technology Park of Udayana University where the
abattoir will be constructed,  and to visit the BIMPC where the IBS has
been proposed, I would certainly welcome the idea of a meat restaurant that
uses products from an eco-farm. Some tourists would probably be equally
fascinated as we would and willing to try the barbecues.

I think with good management, the IBS can be a pleasant place to visit even
if cchicken and quails are fed with housefly maggots, and fish is grown
with wash water from the abattoir and feedlot.

I actually dont know of an animal farm that operates its own restuarant on
site. I know that in Thailand, there are fish ponds that attract tourist to
fish their own meal.....the fish is then cooked there for them. Or catch your own quail. !

I know that the younger generation of people particularly from developed
countries have difficulty in accepting to eat an animal that they have felt
alive several minutes before. In Pomona, California, I visited the Centre
for Regenerative Studies. There is an IBS there. Live-in students will eat
eggs from the farm but will not kill and eat the chickens. They dont mind
catching, kill and eat the Tilapia.

It would be interesting to know if anyone i the audience know of an IBS
farm that also runs a restaurant !

regards
jacky