<story><title>We don&apos;t eat swans</title><url>http://modernfarmer.com/2014/05/come/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gweinberg</author><text>I felt the same way. It asks &amp;quot;why don&amp;#x27;t we eat swans any more?&amp;quot; but as far as I can tell in the US we never did, and in fact the closest thing to an answer is just that we never got in the habit. I get the impression the excess swan problem in Michigan is a recent thing, probably a result of a decline of some swaniferous predator.</text></item><item><author>darklajid</author><text>That article is .. devoid of new information. It claims that we don&amp;#x27;t eat swans (maybe? probably? I certainly never did.) but fails to provide even a hint of an answer. Unless I miss a hidden link for a page 2 or 3 that is a very long &amp;quot;So we don&amp;#x27;t eat a big bird, think about it&amp;quot;, which is .. thought provoking if you&amp;#x27;re feeling nice, lacking content if you&amp;#x27;re not.&lt;p&gt;Jumping between vastly different regions doesn&amp;#x27;t help either (&amp;quot;Swans are the property of the crown in the UK, but a pest in Michigan.&amp;quot; What??).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>taejo</author><text>swaniferous (swan-bearing) =&amp;#x2F;= swanivorous (swan-eating).</text></comment>
<story><title>We don&apos;t eat swans</title><url>http://modernfarmer.com/2014/05/come/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gweinberg</author><text>I felt the same way. It asks &amp;quot;why don&amp;#x27;t we eat swans any more?&amp;quot; but as far as I can tell in the US we never did, and in fact the closest thing to an answer is just that we never got in the habit. I get the impression the excess swan problem in Michigan is a recent thing, probably a result of a decline of some swaniferous predator.</text></item><item><author>darklajid</author><text>That article is .. devoid of new information. It claims that we don&amp;#x27;t eat swans (maybe? probably? I certainly never did.) but fails to provide even a hint of an answer. Unless I miss a hidden link for a page 2 or 3 that is a very long &amp;quot;So we don&amp;#x27;t eat a big bird, think about it&amp;quot;, which is .. thought provoking if you&amp;#x27;re feeling nice, lacking content if you&amp;#x27;re not.&lt;p&gt;Jumping between vastly different regions doesn&amp;#x27;t help either (&amp;quot;Swans are the property of the crown in the UK, but a pest in Michigan.&amp;quot; What??).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>qbrass</author><text>People buy them as a pond decoration, then turn them loose when they become aggressive as adults.</text></comment>