FILE PHOTO: A beaver is seen in a marsh near the village of Vyganashchy, some 270 km (168 miles) southwest of Minsk, March 4, 2010. REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko
WARSAW (Reuters) - Beavers could be a good source of food, Poland's agriculture minister said on Friday, after he outraged animal rights activists by joking the aphrodisiac qualities of the rodents' tails could encourage Poles to eat them.
Jan Ardanowski made his tongue-in-cheek comment on the tails in May when outlining plans to allow to the eating of beavers and European bison to encourage hunting of the animals to regulate numbers. His comments were only widely reported this week and Ardanowski stood by his proposals:
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