I find this an interesting topic. I will try (taste/eat) just about anything so long as it is not harmful. I do, like many, have my boundaries. I have tasted and eaten a lot of different varieties of meat because my parents and grandmother encouraged me as a child to "try it and if you don't like it you don't have to eat it". I can't say that I have ever eaten cat or dog (that I know of) and it would not be on my dinner menu but if I was starving.....who knows!
I have had Silkies since a kid and never eaten one of them. It's funny because I've been around them so long and work hard to create beautiful Silkies I don't really see them as "chicken". Does that make sense? I suppose with their fur-like feathering, docile and friendly nature they go against the grain of a typical meat type chicken. I have sold cockerel to local Asians who LOVE the Silkie meat and encouraged me to try it, even invited me to dinner, but I could barely look at it let along try it. Honestly, I've never been able to butcher a Silkie either. I've tried to convince myself to give it a try but for four years now I can't get myself up to doing it.
I also raise Guinea fowl and I have no issues butchering and dining on them. The meat is delicious and I like the taste of it better than chicken or turkey. Farm free range raised birds that are never medicated and completely healthy flight conditioned fowl. Those who know me, friends and family, think I'm a odd duck (punny!) to eat the guinea fowl but that is because they are as I am with the Silkie and timid to try it...
Everyone has a different pallet and form their own ideals on what should and shouldn't be eaten. I for one am not a fan of waste and agree many should broaden their views on what is editable. With that said I am at the same time not a fan of eating the feet, liver, head, etc. off of a bird but I will gladly save it for someone who will use it.
So...What is everyone fixin' for their 4th of July cookout? haha
David
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--- 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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