Inside Florida’s gator trade: big business causing deadly attacks

Florida is known worldwide for its alligators, but only Florida’s insiders know about the millions made from their meat, their hides and even their eggs.

It’s a big business that some believe creates big trouble.

“I feel like I am living in an alligator farm that shouldn’t exist in a public lake,” said Michelle Smith, who owns a lakefront home on Lake Kissimmee in Polk County…

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