SpeedyWilson Loc: Upstate South Carolina

The British have some interesting rules about eating wild birds. The law even authorizes eating roadkill ... just prove it was dead when you found it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-14631856

PalePictures Loc: Traveling

A man got lost in Yosemite National park and was discovered by a ranger. He was arrested by the ranger because he had a fire burning roasting two California Condors that were mostly eaten. The ranger hauled him into jail where he stayed a night before appearing before the Judge. The judge asked him why he ate the Condors. The man replied "I had been without food for two days lost when I came across the slow moving birds. I used a stick and was able to strike the two birds by throwing the stick disabling both of them. I had some matches roasted the birds and ate both of them. I figured if I didn't I would have died." The Judge replied "It is illegal to eat California Condors under any circumstances and your going to have to spend the next 60 days in jail and pay a huge fine." I have one curious question for you the Judge said. "What did those Condors taste like?" The man replied "It was a cross between a Bald Eagle and a Spotted Owl."

Russ

SpeedyWilson Loc: Upstate South Carolina

Jokes like that will earn you the "Your Goose is Cooked" award.

BBNC

The Brits also let game birds hang outside for several days before preparing for the table. It's called drawing, so I guess roadkill a couple days old could be on the menu, LOL. Remind me not to order wild bird if I ever get to the UK.

Day.Old.Pizza Loc: Maple Grove, MN

In the UP (northern,northern Michigan) when we bag our buck, venison, it is common practice to let it hang for a few days before butchering provided it's refrigerator temperture of cooler.

I think it "ages" the meat. Also, once we're in "da deer camp" we don't want to go home before the season is over!

howie Loc: Jersey Shore

Russ that was great, so funny!..thanks for the laugh

English_Wolf Loc: Near Pensacola, FL

Actually, the beef you get in a supermarket is never a fresh kill, it is at least two days old. (but the final kill must be fresh when sold).

The french do the same thing with wild kills it is called curing the meat or 'faisander'. The result is that the taste gets stronger w/o being 'gamy'.

Note that the meat is always hanged upside down, head toward the ground (if kept). Hares (close cousins of rabbits are emptied of their blood unlike the cute bunnies who see their blood drained.

Then all is in the cooking. You make want to go back and have a 'lapin chasseur' now!!! :thumbdown:

Dria Loc: Ohio

Now I know why I don't eat meat. I always thought it was just because I don't like the taste.

billybob40

IHANKS THAT ONE MAKE MY DAY.

mooseeyes Loc: Sonora, California

America, we have lost our pioneer spirt and resolve. We have become a nation of fenicky eaters, with most people having no clue about our food chain.

We have two basic reasons for this, over and above the basic fact of ignorance of biology, biochemistry of our species. The first concern is all of the PETA, Tree hugger, and bleeding heart liberals that tend to be the vast majority of the professors in our major universities. The second cause of the mind-set of many people is compliments of Walt Disney. . .who gave to us a mouse named Mickey; a duck named Donald; a deer named Bambi; a rabbit named Thumper; etc. There is a place for all of God's creatures, right next to the potatoes and gravey!

I was raised on a cattle ranch. Also, I have an undergrad degree with a double major in biology and chemistry. Futhermore, I have hunted and fished just about my entire 67 years. Ask any farmer what happens when proper wild game management, through hunting, is suspended. Most people have no concept of the crop damage that can be inflicted by uncontrolled flocks of wild ducks, geese, pheasants, quail, dove, etc. Un-managed heards of deer and elk can wipe out crops and orchards in a heartbeat.

My family and I eat healthy. We avoid buying meats at the local supermarkets, which come out of questionable slaughter house conditions, that are pumped full of growth hormones and fed feed laced with all sorts of stuff that I elect not to feed my family.

When the zombies come, please don't stop by for roast Canadian goose, followed by mince meat pie made with real venison. I believe the tofu and blocks of cheese hand out station is down the mountain!

Today, lunch is duck bone soup with pulled bear sandwiches, yummers! And no, I don't eat road kill. . .we used it for bait. . .

English_Wolf Loc: Near Pensacola, FL

WOAH!!!!! Someone I could fall in love with if.. it was not a man and say... 30 years younger? :shock: :mrgreen: :D

SpeedyWilson Loc: Upstate South Carolina

Just a note that the original story in this thread is based on laws in Great Britain, not America. However, there are probably too many people who would love to impose similar laws in America.

We need to be forewarned, and keep a sharp eye on elected officials, and appointed bureaucrats; some of them hell-bent on controlling every facet of our daily lives.

alaskagirl Loc: Alaska

not to mention the respect and thankfulness for that animal you caught or shot yourself to feed your family is much greater then when you go buy it at the grocery store-not knowing where it came from i do buy at the grocery store but also eat a lot of salmon and venison

English_Wolf Loc: Near Pensacola, FL

arf, I am not sure we can really go there because here I think we enter the belief of tribes (not that there is anything wrong with it).

It is just that folks who leave in NY Manhattan have a good area to go hunting unless it is for rats, human or reals rodents...

alaskagirl Loc: Alaska

I have lived in the city to, I understand not being able to hunt or fish, but when the question of whether it is right or wrong to eat wild game is asked, I have to put my 2 cents in.

:)