What to do with grey squirrels - M Ogilvie pro hunt nut and extremist, adviser for SNH suggests we should eat squirrels!
On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:08:52 -0000, Don H3 wrote:
On 17 Oct, 01:31, "BAC" wrote:
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ups.com... 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.
When I was younger (here in the bad old u.s.of Arserica)
squirrel hunting was a legitimate excuse to skip school.
I don't recollect that I ever actually ate it, but on a
diet of nuts I would expect outstanding flavor. Whatever.
As I meant to say when I hit the [Reply] button, this
nation has gotten so inbred/incestuous, mainly from the
do-gooder/ kill-no-creature no-matter-how-sick mentality,
that the majority of our rampant squirrel population,
like most "protected" critters, are now carriers of Rabies.
the big R.
Redneck turnip.
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