Alpha to Omega
Just thought this seemed worth remaining alive. I don’t have any answers, but some others here seem to.
My personal preference is to leave spoiled meat alone but there is a huge market for rotten meat. That nice red cut of beef at the market may really be green under the various products “added to preserve flavor or color”.
Two hundred years ago it was thought necessary to hang ducks by the neck until the body fell off before the meat was properly ‘aged’ and I guarantee you that Native American Indians ate a bunch of rotten meat. Fact is, you can eat carrion all you want since you are an omnivore. You didn’t think all those recipes for road kill were jokes did you? Just follow some simple tips: Thoroughly eviscerate the carcass. Eat the rest of the meat as it rots, but hang it up to keep the other predators from stealing your kill. If you slice it reasonably thin and hang it in the sun it will last longer if you can keep the maggots out of it.
For that matter, meat stew was prepared more as a way to disguise the taste of rotten meat than to make fresh meat tasty. Because before refrigeration, meat was ‘fresh’ for about a week and ‘edible’ for as long after that as it took to kill something else. Salt pork was popular because it’s got a nice covering of fat which really doesn’t rot, it merely goes rancid. But it’s still usable for cooking. I can still hear granny yelling “Y’all come and git this. Hurry now, before the grease sets”.
“Survivalists” go out in the woods with a crate of military rations and a tent and fancy themselves mountain men. Bullshit. It’s not easy to live off the land as the Donner party found out.
Thought for the day: “No country is more than three meals away from a revolution.” Or to put it another way, the difference between a civilised person and a savage is a full belly. 'Cause sex is great, but people will start killing each other pretty damn quick when they get hungry.
Bon Appetit
Our dogs will sometimes drag home a dead animal and feast on it. Believe me they do have stomach problems afterward. They get to come in the house sometimes and after laying down to take a nap the gas starts. It doesn’t take long for them to get outside. They also eat grass when their stomach is upset.Something I do not have a wish to try.
I would just as soon cook my carrion after buying it at the butcher shop thank you so very much.