Some beans are meant for eating green and whole, some are meant for eating freshly shelled, some are meant for shelling and drying, and some are a double or triple threat.

If you grow a bean that’s meant to be cooked in the pod, you need to pick relatively early, otherwise they can get stringy.

If you pick a bean that’s meant to be dried too early, they will be underdeveloped.

Try to find out what type you have. Judging by the fact that they are so long, and that you bought them from a grocery store, I’m going to guess that these are yardlong/snake/noodle beans from H-mart. A quick read on those shows that they are normally eaten young and whole as a green bean. If you have some that are really big, they might be too far along, and you’ll need to wait for them to fully develop so you can shell them.

Tl;dr, like the other commenter said, you picked too early and too late.

It looks like Colorado has an actual management plan for it. I guess they have a big chunk of the state where the economy relies on hunting. Hopefully the reintroduction of wolves does some help with it there, too.

I live somewhere that “doesnt have cwd” despite confirmed cases right across a geographically meaningless border. A sickly, relatively young deer dropped dead with no signs of trauma last summer on my street. I tried to report it to see if I could have it tested, and I was given contact info for the state biologist. I reached out, but they never got back to me.

I guess there’s no confirmed cases if you don’t confirm cases.

Does it cost money for you?

It’s a real tricky problem. In most places, humans (via hunting, but also car) are the only predators for deer, so if humans stop hunting them, the problem only gets worse.

The solution is also not reintroducing predators like some of the anti-hunting crowd would have you believe: you aren’t going to get a stable wolf pack in suburban Pennsylvania.

The best solution is probably a radical shift in hunting legislation. Many regulations exist simply to make hunting more difficult. Some regulations, like the existence of hunting seasons were useful before technology to monitor populations really existed, but now we have trail cams, aerial surveys, harvest reporting on phone apps, etc.

It’s easier to take a rifle and go harvest a deer in supposedly gun-averse Australia than it is in most of the places people live in America.

We also need easy, free CWD testing.