'Egg Armageddon': Mass. voters passed animal welfare law

[Tall Timbers]

But next to mother's milk, eggs are the most perfect food

I have to disagree with you. While I thoroughly enjoy eggs, I believe that bacon cheeseburgers are the most perfect food after mother's milk.

 

[alisani]

Totally agree with you about wild rabbits. My dad raised them, initially for meat, but then we all got attached to them. MacAdoo was my favorite. He'd lay down behind the kitchen faucet and let me pet him with sudsy hands while I washed dishes. Am I gonna be the only one here who admits to eating squirrel?

 

[Andy C]

I have to disagree with you. While I thoroughly enjoy eggs, I believe that bacon cheeseburgers are the most perfect food after mother's milk.

Time for our daily meeting



Im TT, Im a burgeraholic

“Hi” TT

 

[Andy C]

Am I gonna be the only one here who admits to eating squirrel?

Yes

 

[Tall Timbers]

Totally agree with you about wild rabbits. My dad raised them, initially for meat, but then we all got attached to them. MacAdoo was my favorite. He'd lay down behind the kitchen faucet and let me pet him with sudsy hands while I washed dishes. Am I gonna be the only one here who admits to eating squirrel?

I've eaten squirrel after snaring one in a survival training camp. I've eaten arctic hare (they look a lot like bunny rabbits). Nowadays when I fry squirrels in my electric traps I just toss the carcasses up the hill for the red fox to find. When you're living large it is easy to become wasteful...

 

[alisani]

I've eaten squirrel after snaring one in a survival training camp. I've eaten arctic hare (they look a lot like bunny rabbits)

Again I tell ya TT, you get a badge for honorary southern gent.

 

[Andy C]

I've eaten squirrel after snaring one in a survival training camp. I've eaten arctic hare (they look a lot like bunny rabbits)

Wildest thing I ever ate was back in 1979, Australian outback area, training with the Australian military, they grilled a few “roos” for us. I asked ahead of time what they taste like, and the Aussie told me “a lot like horse”…gee, that really helped.

 

[Tall Timbers]

Again I tell ya TT, you get a badge for honorary southern gent.

I am truly honored. I've even eaten road kill. After a grouse got in the way of my truck I pulled over and threw the carcass in the back. Got home, and put the meat from that grouse right on the grill.

 

[alisani]

I am truly honored.

Don't get too excited when you see what it amounts to down here.

 

[Tall Timbers]

Don't get too excited when you see what it amounts to down here.

I've always been drawn to the south for some reason. Well, the food for one...

 

[alisani]

I've always been drawn to the south for some reason. Well, the food for one...

My dad felt the same. Came down here from upstate NY and convinced some his brothers and a sister to do the same. They rooted here.

 

[Wings Like Eagles]

Totally agree with you about wild rabbits. My dad raised them, initially for meat, but then we all got attached to them. MacAdoo was my favorite. He'd lay down behind the kitchen faucet and let me pet him with sudsy hands while I washed dishes. Am I gonna be the only one here who admits to eating squirrel?

I've never eaten squirrel but our neighbors do. The black ones around here are small and not the ones they like--they like the big fat, red ones (but then, so do the predators of them). The matriarch of the neighbor family uses the pelts to trim or even make a garment here and there. She made a nice little jacket for her toddler granddaughter out of squirrel pelts. Cute.

 

[cheeky200386]

Well, I'm allergic to eggs, so I stay away from anything with very much egg in it. But limiting any kind of natural resource for food is problematic.
Funny (not really) how many of these kinds of people value the lives of eggs so much, but don't place that same value on the life of an unborn baby.......



My fiance and I are paying everything off here in Oregon and planning on getting married (probably a really quick, private one) and moving to Florida here as soon as we can. We've had enough.

I pray you'll be able to move out asap. We'll probably join you and many others in the move out or Blue States.

 

[cheeky200386]

Totally agree with you about wild rabbits. My dad raised them, initially for meat, but then we all got attached to them. MacAdoo was my favorite. He'd lay down behind the kitchen faucet and let me pet him with sudsy hands while I washed dishes. Am I gonna be the only one here who admits to eating squirrel?

That's cool. I've never tried squirrel. My step dad hunts on the mountain he lives on in PA. He cooked up some bear burgers last month and they were delicious lol. He mixed in some cow fat to add some flavor and reduce some of the gaminess. Really good. That was quite exotic for me. I would try squirrel. I'm curious about rabbit. Deer meat is good too.

 

[Wings Like Eagles]

That's cool. I've never tried squirrel. My step dad hunts on the mountain he lives on in PA. He cooked up some bear burgers last month and they were delicious lol. He mixed in some cow fat to add some flavor and reduce some of the gaminess. Really good. That was quite exotic for me. I would try squirrel. I'm curious about rabbit. Deer meat is good too.

The very best of the wild meat is moose, IMO. Mooseburgers are great! Getting harder and harder to find moose meat. This area used to be full of moose. We had a female calf wandering around grazing in our subdivision about ten years ago. The Ministry of Natural Resources says that their numbers have dwindled even though they have cut back the number of moose-hunting days.

 

[athenasius]

The very best of the wild meat is moose, IMO. Mooseburgers are great! Getting harder and harder to find moose meat. This area used to be full of moose. We had a female calf wandering around grazing in our subdivision about ten years ago. The Ministry of Natural Resources says that their numbers have dwindled even though they have cut back the number of moose-hunting days.

I grew up on moose meat. Here in BC it's because bears are not allowed to be hunted or killed off, and bears are increasingly killing and eating moose. It might be different back east but that is what is happening here.

Northern BC is having a real problem with reduced moose numbers, and the native bands who traditionally hunt the moose and try and keep the bears in check are angry and upset because the environmentalist activists and PETA etc got a ban on bear hunting here.

It didn't take long. There are no natural predators for bears, they are at the top of the food chain and they are experiencing population pressures-- too many bears so they are hunting whatever they can when they aren't holed up. The moose mothers and calves are being decimated, oh and wolves are back too in good numbers here. And hunting them is also discouraged.

 

[Wings Like Eagles]

I grew up on moose meat. Here in BC it's because bears are not allowed to be hunted or killed off, and bears are increasingly killing and eating moose. It might be different back east but that is what is happening here.

Northern BC is having a real problem with reduced moose numbers, and the native bands who traditionally hunt the moose and try and keep the bears in check are angry and upset because the environmentalist activists and PETA etc got a ban on bear hunting here.

It didn't take long. There are no natural predators for bears, they are at the top of the food chain and they are experiencing population pressures-- too many bears so they are hunting whatever they can when they aren't holed up. The moose mothers and calves are being decimated, oh and wolves are back too in good numbers here. And hunting them is also discouraged.

Yes--people here are resentful that the animal rights nazis are dictating policy when they know nothing about managing wild life up here. The black bears that we have here are mostly herbivorous (might eat the odd small animal as well as grubs and worms). They would likely not be inclined to try to pick off an adult moose (as you know, a bull moose is particularly capable of defending itself) or even a calf. The real predators of moose here would be timber wolves and there is evidence that they are moving further south to feast on deer and moose. The red wolves that are native to this area are quite a bit smaller than the timber wolves and the timber wolf packs kill the red wolves, in territorial disputes. The red wolves might get a juvenile moose but they mostly bring down smaller game. We used to be overrun with deer around here--they were almost tame, and were everywhere, because animal rights groups from the southern part of the Province, demanded a shorter deer-hunting season. The laughable part is that the numbers of deer have dropped anyway--probably due to a quiet invasion of a few packs of timber wolves, in addition to some poaching, in spite of severe penalties if caught. People in Toronto seem incapable of understanding that wild game has always been an important part of the diet of many people in the northern part of the Province. The animal rights groups apparently feel that it is more important to feed timber wolves than people.

 

[Tall Timbers]

The very best of the wild meat is moose, IMO. Mooseburgers are great! Getting harder and harder to find moose meat. This area used to be full of moose. We had a female calf wandering around grazing in our subdivision about ten years ago. The Ministry of Natural Resources says that their numbers have dwindled even though they have cut back the number of moose-hunting days.

We have lots of moose in Alaska, and they tend to like the interior where I live. Most up here favor moose meat but I like caribou just a wee bit better.

 

[Aiyanna]

I pray you'll be able to move out asap. We'll probably join you and many others in the move out or Blue States.

Thank you! Prayers are much appreciated!I'll be praying for you as well!

 

[Wings Like Eagles]

We have lots of moose in Alaska, and they tend to like the interior where I live. Most up here favor moose meat but I like caribou just a wee bit better.

The only problem with caribou is that they tend to carry mad cow disease. So, be careful about ground meat from that source because a clueless processor could include the brain and/or spinal cord in the ground meat.