When I was growing up squirrel, rabbit, deer and wild hog were regular meats on our table. All sorts of wild game birds along with turkey, pheasant, peafowl and guinea that were raised on the farm. I have also eaten rattlesnake, iguana, javelina and many of the exotics that free range in Texas. Goat and lamb or both wonderful meats and here in Texas we often throw some on the BBQ pits. I would have no problem with eating a properly processed horse steak or burger. I would bet that if I smoked a brisket cut from a horse and a steer side by side you could not tell it apart. A double meat double cheese whinny burger would most likely be just as good and maybe even healthier than the ones we eat now. The real problem is letting a small group of people decide for the rest of us what we will eat. For those of you that like oysters, and I love them, how hard was it to eat the first raw oyster you put in your mouth? Can you imagine the first native to break open and oyster or clam shell and eat it? How about escargot or snails? Conch salad is raw shell fish that is in fact mildly toxic. I have eaten octopus and love calamari and they are really disgusting creatures. Organ meats of chickens, cattle or other livestock look pretty bad if you think about it. If you don’t believe you will eat most anything you have never been really hungry. The army ranger survival training programs prove that over and over. By the end of the week people relish some of the parts of a rabbit that they swore they would not eat. No one will waste the brains or eyeballs. Happens in all cases as your body and brain decides it does not want to die. JMHO J
Ed Thomas
Texas
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