Hard to swallow: can Australians be convinced to eat our invasive species?

Mona executive chef Vince Trim’s feral camel served with a camel milk curd and prickly pear salsa, as served in ABC show Eat the Invaders. Photograph: Jesse Hunniford/Mona

Boonah, Queensland. Night. A gang of white-haired pensioners in head torches are running through final checks. These are the Women Against Cane Toads (WACT) and they’ve come to a golf course, not to putt the pests, but to plonk them into buckets. They call it toadbusting.

“Be decisive,” they instruct Tony Armstrong, presenter of Eat the Invaders, as he dithers over a particularly portly Bufo marinus.