0n (08 Jan 08) Carol Shenkenberger wrote to Bob Ackley...


 >  LL>> know wild boars enjoyed eating human flesh.  Not even raccoons like
 >  LL>> to drink beer, so it is doubtful that wild boars would either.
 CS>  >
 >  CH>  I thought boars were vegatarians? tho? The beer could have been
 >  CH> especially treated with special preservatives. Maybe it's not really
 >  CH> beer but a wine, that improves as it ages?
 CS>  >
 > Hogs are omnivorous.  In fact hogs are the only meat-eating animal that man
 > raises for food.  There's an interesting article about them in the 2008
 > Farmer's
 > Almanac.

 CS> Actually thats not strictly true.  Unless you tend to think of seafood


HEY Welcome back :)

 CS> as 'not meat'.  LObsters and crabs are farmed and both eat each other
 CS> with great glee given a chance.  Catfish too although they tend to be
 CS> scavangers of the dead (any type, human as well as animal).  In fact,
 CS> a large portion of the seafood items we eat, are cannibals or fellow
 CS> meat eaters.

 That's interesting. Crabs and Lobs having a go at each other. heh.

 Seafood IS "meat" actually but we tend to distinguish marine life
from land life maybe due to the fact most of the land life 'meat' we
eat is domesticated and fish are mostly wild?

BTW I've found Atlantic Salmon way better than the farmed variety.

And did y'all know that farm raised ducks (mostly grain fed) are not
as 'gamy' tasting as wild duck (due to what they eat in the wild.)

 CS> Dogs also though we dont eat them in western society.  Generally we

They're not raised tho, they are naturally for the most part social
critters and willfulling mingle with humans... much to their
disadvantage in the case where they're seen as food rather than work
animals or pets.

You know what is worse than eating dogs? It's using them for
drug/chemical testing. And then instead of putting the damaged animal
down, they release them to shelters. SOME of them can be
rehabilitated.
               
 CS> avoid meat eating mammals as they 'taste bad' to us.  We also tend to
 CS> avoid seafood or carrion eating avians for the same reason but we are
 CS> quite happy with bug and insect eating chickens and prise them better
 CS> if 'free range bug eaters'.                xxcarol

 According to Linda Elerbee in here witty/winsome memoir "Around the
world and Across the Table" CHILI got it s start (In Texas) when on a
long cattle drive the cowboys would slay an old steer... She says
fresh beef stinks and tastes sour. So they'd gather up wild onions and
other herbs they could find , throw in coffee or any liquid at all to
it..and stew it. Beans got into it later.
((The sourness taste comes from the iron compenent in the blood I think; not
from decay.)


Cindy

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