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What to do with grey squirrels - M Ogilvie pro hunt nut and extremist, adviser for SNH suggests we should eat squirrels!
On 17 Oct, 10:42, ah wrote:
wrote: On 17 Oct, 09:31, "BAC" wrote: wrote in message roups.com... On 16 Oct, 22:05, "@@^" wrote: On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 21:08:51 +0100, Malcolm snip 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. Point taken, but that still doesn't make Malcolm's suggestion 'unscientific'. Impracticable, maybe. Fanciful, maybe.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Whimsical, perchance. |
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