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Yes - but you've got to pluck the pigeons and cut them up yourself.
Janet Baraclough wrote: The message .com from "John" contains these words: Are the pigeons in urban gardens just as edible as those in the butchers or could there be a problem with the amount of lice etc on them, and their diet of waste? Don't be such a wuss. If you eat salmon, beef, poultry, game or lamb, you are already eating creatures that have had lice, gut parasites etc, and you haven't died yet; though the chemical treatments UK produce got for those parasites might not do you much good. If you are lucky enough to eat home-grown free-range poultry or their eggs, that wonderful flavour comes partly from the scraps, or household waste, they eat, and the animal manures they pick through. If you eat wild sea fish like inshore mackerel you'd better not ask what they feed on that makes them so tasty... If you eat cheap supermarket "bargain price" poultry or pork raised butchered and imported from barely-regulated farms in east Europe or the far east then you could be risking far more than anything that afflicts an urban UK pigeon Janet. -- Isle of Arran Open Gardens weekend 21,22,23 July 2006 5 UKP three-day adult ticket (funds go to island charities) buys entry to 26 private gardens |
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"John" wrote in message ups.com... Yes - but you've got to pluck the pigeons and cut them up yourself. It's far easier and only takes a couple of minutes to skin them. Plucking's for the birds. I've skinned and gutted very many pigeons and never had lice or any other problems from doing so. Mary Janet Baraclough wrote: The message .com from "John" contains these words: Are the pigeons in urban gardens just as edible as those in the butchers or could there be a problem with the amount of lice etc on them, and their diet of waste? Don't be such a wuss. If you eat salmon, beef, poultry, game or lamb, you are already eating creatures that have had lice, gut parasites etc, and you haven't died yet; though the chemical treatments UK produce got for those parasites might not do you much good. If you are lucky enough to eat home-grown free-range poultry or their eggs, that wonderful flavour comes partly from the scraps, or household waste, they eat, and the animal manures they pick through. If you eat wild sea fish like inshore mackerel you'd better not ask what they feed on that makes them so tasty... If you eat cheap supermarket "bargain price" poultry or pork raised butchered and imported from barely-regulated farms in east Europe or the far east then you could be risking far more than anything that afflicts an urban UK pigeon Janet. -- Isle of Arran Open Gardens weekend 21,22,23 July 2006 5 UKP three-day adult ticket (funds go to island charities) buys entry to 26 private gardens |
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