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On 16 Oct, 22:05, "@@^" wrote:
On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 21:08:51 +0100, Malcolm

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I wonder what the world will have to say about an SNH adviser
suggesting we should eat squirrels?

Bit unscientific isn't it?

Why 'unscientific'? Unless you're a rabid vegetarian, what's the
difference between eating squirrel and eating lamb or beef or pork?



To a vegetarian, there'd be no difference between eating meat from
squirrels, sheep, cattle or pigs, it would all be equally unacceptable.

To a meat eater, there may be a difference between squirrel-meat and lamb,
beef, etc. Not many meat-eaters knowingly or willingly consume meat from all
species of mammals - most in our culture eschew eating rats, mice, foxes,
shrews, bats, otters, voles, moles, badgers, weasels, stoats, martens, cats,
dogs, and so on, for example. The grey squirrel gets such a bad press, being
labelled 'tree rat', carrier of squirrel pox, scavenger, etc., that it's
probably thought of as being in the 'vermin' category, which would probably
make its flesh difficult to market successfully.