Lunch on Lizards

A Florida author is hoping that his neighbors will soon be lunching on lizards.

George Cera is a trapper and hunter who specializes in ridding Florida neighborhoods of non-native iguanas.

The lizards push out native animals and are considered by many to be a nuisance.

Now Cera is hoping that casting the iguanas as a cheap and delicious food source may help bring their population under control.

His new book "Save Florida, Eat an Iguana - An Iguana Cookbook" offers dozens of recipes.

"My main concern is not so much that people eat iguanas, but that they are aware of the impact they're having and that we need to do more," Cera explained. "If I would have written a book that said 'The Ecological impact of Iguanas on Florida's Native Wildlife' nobody would have picked it up."

Iguanas are commonly eaten in their native Central and South America.