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Would you eat a grey squirrel or Japanese knotweed to help save the environment?

A zero waste restaurant in London called Silo is running a series of dinners featuring species invasive to the UK.

The mission behind the meals is to highlight the damage that this foreign flora and fauna is having on native species.

Douglas McMaster is the head chef at Silo.

Featuring on the menu are signal crayfish, introduced to the UK from the US and cultivated in special farms as a food source.

Unfortunately, they're very good at escaping.

According to professor of entomology, Karim Vahed, this is a prime example of the potentially detrimental threat invasive non-native species pose to biodiversity.

All the food for the restaurant, including signal crayfish, is currently foraged, fished or caught in the wild to reduce numbers and impact on the native environment.

With no convenient deliveries from suppliers the preparation of just one meal can be a surprising number of hours of work.

However, in spite of the concerns about invasive species, Professor Vahed isn't in favour of their consumption, believing that this may further aggravate the problem by popularising their use.

Something which McMaster refutes.

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