They discuss eating bear, just a reminder for everyone that bear meat is a prime harbor for worms and parasites. On top of the fact that, like expressed in the article, it's frankly not good.
https://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=disease.muscle2
> All bear and lynx meat should be considered possibly infected.
organ products, from game are kinda risky.
With that said, pioneers and mountain men ate bear meat. They preferred bear paws due to the high fat content I think.
Isn’t sausage the goto thing when you want to take meat that would otherwise be nasty and turn it into something palatable?
I don’t think you statement contradicts the parent post about bear meat being not good
Domestic goose is better than wild goose, but grass-fed elk (that is, ranched elk) just tastes like beef. Likewise with grass-fed bison. Truly wild elk has that gaminess to it that I really appreciate. I've a recipe for venison burger casserole that is utterly flavorless when made with ground beef. Bear sausage is only good when its heavily mixed with actual pork, and spiced to hell and back.
Deer and pronghorn that graze on sagebrush actually taste sagey. If that's your jam, its fantastic.
Not even duck? That is a bit surprising.
I buy half a cow every year from local farmers, and I'd put my ground elk up against that ground beef any day (though I do have to add suet because elk is so lean). In fact, nobody that I serve elk to knows that it's elk until/unless I tell them.
If your wild game tastes bad, you messed up somewhere along the line. Get it cold as soon as possible, keep it clean, and the meat will be great.
The main advantage of commercially produced beef, chicken, and pork is that you can eat it rare & raw.
Sure. I think that's stating the obvious though.
Is there an analogy for media and information?
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Each level up increases the concentration of toxin because the n-th level is eating the (n-1) level which has a higher concentration than the (n-2) level that the (n-1) ate.
Similarly, if we posit that all else being equal [1] a sociopath is more likely to go up a hierarchical level, then the nth level is promoted from the n-1 level that is more sociopathic than the n-2.
I also believe that presidential democracies are more prone to this concentration of sociopaths because voting the higher offices is more divorced from the voter (ie you dont know who you are voting for personally and are more easily mislead). Parliamentary (or congressional seats) democracy is more resistant to psychos. Monarchies are immune (except for genetic inheritance), but of course come with their own set of problems.
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[1] a similar assumption is made for toxins.
I don’t agree with your second point. It’s pretty good, especially spring bear. That said, I avoid bears that eat a lot of spawning salmon in the fall.
People have eaten bears for literally millennia, especially indigenous North Americans. It’s not some recent thing that we are wrong to do. They are a natural prey animal in eg BC, where they live in high densities.
Who said it was wrong? I said bears harbor parasites (they do), and that the meat is bad (which is my opinion, I guess).
! Dont Cook it in Your House !
it often ends up feeding sled dogs.