You know, if there's one thing the human race excels at, it is exterminating the hell out of other species. Maybe if we weren't spending so much money trying to make Afghanistan and Iraq to be less crappy places we could pay people to fish the Mississippi. Throw back the native fish, harvest the Asian carp.
Since you would be doing some distilling you should probably keep it on the down low if you don't want the Revenuers to get after you. While home brewing is legal in the US, home distilling unfortunately isn't.
I remember when SNL had a skit about Japanese Iron Chef. The guest was Charlie Sheen and the secret ingredient (or at least one of the ingredients, it's been a while) was eel farts.
Instead of raising the machete handle over the block, wouldn't it make more sense and be a lot safer if you lowered the block so the machete accelerates along the beam?
I don't have a high opinion of Mandy Jouan from this.