https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-54874-4
The 82% of usable parts of a python is greater than the ~40% from beef cattle, ~57% from pigs, and ~70-75% from chickens.
Considering that Burmese pythons are an invasive species in Florida, perhaps if people can become interested in eating them, that may help control that problem.
I’m all for other people eating them.
More beef for us! 
NOPE, no thank you.
Feel free to put that into action. Let me know how they taste.
No “drum sticks” so unlikely to replace Turkey at thanksgiving.
Intriguing. Especially after I read that they feed them wild rodents. Maybe this is the answer to NYC’s rat problem?
Tastes like chicken! 
I’ll stick with snakehead fish. They’re invasive too, and absolutely delicious.
Now all I can think about is that delicacy, “snake surprise”, in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
Reminds me of a scene from Capricorn One where one of the astronauts being hunted by the Feds whacks a rattler with a rock and then eats it. 
That was the scariest part of the movie for me back in the day!
Geez, some Americans are so squeamish. They can only eat the muscle of three species of animal, they get queasy when seeing how animals are killed and butchered, and are scared of any new food that they see.
BTW, cattle are the absolute worse animals for the environment. Besides contributing to greenhouse gasses, they contribute to erosion, monocultures, and spread of disease. They yield the least amount of meat and other products for every pound of feed or grass eaten, and require a lot more husbandry. Americans also eat beef in quantities that are multiple times the amount that is healthy.
I haven’t yet had python, but I have had both rattlesnake and alligator, both which are tasty, but can be tough if you don’t know how to prepare them.
And yes, I have also eaten a few species of frog, a number of species of insect, a wide array of fish and mollusc species, jellyfish, and parts of animals that most Americans are too squeamish to consider.
Aside from being healthy and environmentally friendly they all are delicious.
Sign me up for an invasive python barbeque!
After you…
Just no. 
I was scarred years ago from watching Anthony Bourdain eat a beating cobra heart in Hanoi. One of the grossest things I’ve ever seen.
I like beef.
I prefer it to many other meats.
I’ll also eat a wide variety of foods but I’m not replacing beef with frog legs or alligator or octopus or squirrel.
And I think if we should all become vegetarians.
I don’t say much on this forum, but agriculture is my wheelhouse. It’s what we do every day. There is so much incorrect information out there. Cattle are not the worst animals for the environment. In fact, I would challenge that they are some of the best animals for our planet.
As a ruminant animal, they have an amazing stomach system that allows them to eat so many low quality and waste products that would otherwise be thrown away. Cattle are fed things likes soybean meal (waste products of soy oil) citrus pulp, cottonseed bulls, bakery waste, candy waste, canola byproducts, citrus and fruit waste and many other left over feed stuffs. They have a very special ability to digest them.
Yes they produce methane, but we are currently developing new feed additives to reduce their methane output. In reality though, most methane studies you see are based on super small inefficient farms in developing countries.
The large majority of beef cattle are raised for the first half of their life on pasture. These pastures are using land that would never be suitable to grow any other crops. The grazing cattle fertilize the ground as they go. It’s a very self contained system.
It was mentioned that only 40% of the beef animal is used. When we sell animals for processing, it’s usually 60-65% beef. But the really special part is that 99% of that animal is used for something. The only part that goes to waste is the stomach and intestinal contents. I have toured big processing houses. They are using every part of that animal for something, right down to collecting the blood to use it. Nothing goes to waste.
I’ll give you the example of what we do on our farm. On our small family farm of 200 acres, we can produce 400,000 gallons of milk a year. Also we can raise 50 beef animals and provide another 100 beef calves. We do this all in a very enclosed system. Our cows provide the bulk of the fertilizer needed to nourish our soil. We notill our ground, so there is never bare ground to be eroded and we feed a very active earth worm population. Our crops feed the cows and they produce the milk. We do feed many of the waste byproducts I mentioned above and the only things we really need to buy off the farm are vitamins and minerals. Everything else that we would purchase is grown locally.
Myself and other farmers just like me work every day to nourish and improve our soils. It’s not just a single mono crop. It’s a very balanced crop rotation that is based on soil testing, nutrient needs and what is best for the environment in order to minimize fertilizer and pesticide use.
As I look around agriculture, there is no other type of farming that can provide that type of whole food nutrient dense foods in a more sustainable way. There is no vegetable, fruit or tree nut that can operate in a closed system and provide the same amount of protein, energy, vitamins and minerals in a local system. There is a place for eating snakes and I think that is a good thing too. I just hate to see people not have the information to make correct decisions
Hope this helps shed light on what we do everyday
The joke is that if Adam and Eve had been Cajun they would have eaten the snake instead of the apple and saved us all a lot of trouble. Maybe we’re finally getting around to it. 
I am so skeeved out by snakes, I’m really irrational about it. Even that photo made me squirm.
All of that to say, absent some life-saving situation where I’d otherwise starve to death, I’m never eating them. Ever.
Having eaten snake on more than one occasion, I would say it’s very similar to frog legs and was quite tasty.
I am definitely open to trying snakes. I generally have an adventurous palate, having done insects, gators, frog legs, etc. One of the few things that I couldn’t do was cuy (guinea pig) because it really looked too much like the animal to me, even though I have no problem eating boiled crawfish or shrimp which also are the animal presented whole.
Here is another article that talks about eating invasive animals whether it’s nutria in Louisiana and other coastland areas, feral hogs in Texas, Asian carp in the Mississippi River basin, bullfrogs in the Pacific Northwest, or lionfish in Florida:
