Wild Carnivores tend to have stringier meat; you'd definitely want to soak in a salt brine a couple days; then probably soak in a marinade for another 24 hrs.
I've eaten horse a few time; didn't know it the first couple times; I thought it was beef; then I saw it raw & realized it was much redder than raw beef. It's not bad, & if the opportunity presented itself; I'd fill my freezer with it. I like horses; but don't have the social affection for them alot of people do; I was raised on a farm & a farm animal is livestock; & if you find yourself looking at an empty freezer; first direction you look is your livestock & decide which one is going to fill the freezer....
I've eaten several exotic & wild meats; never tried dog or cat; to my knowledge; I have an affinity for Oriental food; so it's possible.... lol I know Potbelly pigs are tasty, & Emu, & Ostrich meat is pretty strong, but edible.
In the Military; I ate several different varieties of snake, & large meaty lizards; kind of chewy; but tasty after a week or 2 of Field rations..... I've also eaten softshell turtle on a few occasions; Turtle is a real treat; very tasty whether cooked over open flames, grilled, or as soup.
--- In CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com, "dbauer7997us" <DBauer7998@...> wrote:
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> I know most people abhor the idea of eating a dog - or a cat, or a horse, for that matter. While I have tried none of these, the only reasons are that a) I have not been offered it by someone who does cook it and b) I have never been hungry enough to have to eat it. It's easy to look down our noses at people who eat animals that we do not normally recognize as food sources, but we can only afford to do so because we have not been on the brink of starvation ourselves. In those circumstances, people can't afford to be picky. I'd sure as shoot cook a dog, cat, horse (or any other edible animal) before I'd let my child starve to death. I'd kill and cook rats before I'd let my child die of hunger.
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> What I don't know is if carnivores should be processed differently that herbivores. I seem to remember hearing long ago that human beings must be more careful with the meat of carnivores due to the risk of carnivores being more of a potential source of disease and/or parasites than herbivores are. I would have to research this to be certain of the answer.
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> Actually, I'm rather against the ban on processing horsemeat here in the United States. While I don't personally desire to sit down to an equine meal, horses are considered farm animals - and the only way to logically dispose of farm animals that are no longer useful is to butcher them. Better that than letting them slowly starve to death and become fodder for an episode "Animal Cops Houston", for heavens sake.
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> There are people who go hungry here in the United States. This is not just a Third World issue. Can we really logically ban the consumption of certain species simply because we are emotionally attached to them or because they are "cute"? That makes no sense.
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> ALL animals should be treated humanely and their lives made as satisfying as is possible. All animals used as a food source should be dispatched by humane methods - always. (In other words, we should treat animals more humanely than we normally treat each other.)
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> There is a heavy Caribbean influence where I live, and goat is routinely offered in the grocery stores are cater to Hispanics. There are other meats that I cannot identify that animal that they came from. Chris (my son) says goat is pretty good, so I may try it sometime this summer. If course, he also says hippo is also pretty good, but I don't think I'll find that offered around here any time in the near future.
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> With boas and pythons taking over the Everglades and other parts of South Florida, perhaps we should develop a taste for snake and make the critters worth catching. I mean, some of those snakes are HUGE and would provide a lot of meat to someone who is hungry.
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> But I'm still glad I buried my 22-year-old cat out in the garden by the bird bath and didn't fricassee her when she died.
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> Di
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