Founded in 2011, eattheinvaders.org is inspired by the 2004 article “Eat the Invaders!” published by Joe Roman, which proposed cooking and eating harmful invasive species. When the article first appeared in Audubon Magazine, the response was crickets—and not necessarily invasive ones. But the rise of the foraging and locavore movement in the early 2000s and greater awareness of the impacts of invasive lionfish, green crabs, and northern snakeheads have brought more attention to the idea. The concept has since been featured in The New York Times Magazine, BBC World Service, The Guardian, Outside, Wired, and more.
