The kid in me thinks that this is amazing and I wish I'd have been able to do something similar -- but current me thinks about how I could never use that crockpot for food again.
As I was leaving my lab, carrying the crockpot, my department chair saw me: "Ooh, what delicious thing are you making?"
Me: "Uhhhh, Cecilia and I are going to deflesh a raccoon this weekend."
Him: "Ew. Now I'm not hungry anymore."
They actually mentioned that the crockpot in question was brought home from a lab, and it was used specifically for cleaning biogoo from bones.
But otherwise, I totally agree on the ick factor. I'm a little surprised that a crockpot with detergent, and then hydrogen peroxide, is all it takes to sufficiently disinfect dead critter stuff.
(Then again, I toss raw meat in a crock pot and then shove it directly into my mouth, so I don't know why I'm surprised.)
And then the next city downstream gets that water and drinks it anyway.
Depending on where you live (i.e. near a large river) reducing water usage doesn't really make much environmental difference, as long as you dump it in the sewer: The water gets reused many many times on its way to the ocean.
>She put all the bones into the crockpot that I brought home from my lab as well (which we keep for the express purpose of defleshing stuff that, well, still has squishy/hairy bits on it):
I feel much better now.