Florida python population might soon end up on dinner plates

Florida has come up with a way to control its ballooning wild python population: Put them on the dinner menu.

The southern US state is renowned for the Everglades, the tropical wetlands that covers some 600,000 hectares (1.5 million acres).

It’s an environment that’s prime for Burmese pythons, which were first found – likely introduced by way of an escaped pet – in the region in the 1980s.

Since then, they’ve run rampant.

With a bevy of native animals to feed on, the pythons have…