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Since cow are definitionally domesticated, nobody has ever eaten a wild cow, but people eat wild mammals on a regular basis. Game is typically much healthier a
by i_am_proteus 6y ago
Since cow are definitionally domesticated, nobody has ever eaten a wild cow, but people eat wild mammals on a regular basis.
Game is typically much healthier as a food source than domesticated animals; this includes wild-caught fish vs. farm-raised fish.
- MattGaiser 6y ago> but people eat wild mammals on a regular basis. Not in meaningful quantity. It would bet that the median time since a typical Westerner last had wild mammal could be measured in months if not years.
- s_dev 6y ago>Not in meaningful quantity. Enough wild meat to introduce a new Virus and pandemic though.
- beached_whale 6y agoprobably not if most families in Sydney and Melbourne went out hunting.
- phonypc 6y agoI'd bet a typical westerner has never eaten wild mammal meat. I expect the statement in born from the misconception that "game" meat as found in restaurants and for sale is from wild animals, when it is actually farmed.
- MattGaiser 6y ago> I expect the statement in born from the misconception that "game" meat as found in restaurants and for sale is from wild animals, when it is actually farmed. If we assume that about the bison and venison I have had over the years, it has been at least over a decade for me. Not sure if we farm muskrats.
- Gieskanne 6y agoIt is quite common here to shot deer to keep it under control and it gets sold to local butchers. At least in germany. My father is also a hunter. Its looks like this: https://www.google.com/search?q=jaeger+deutschland&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwiin7-DqaXrAhUP8IUKHWVNC8UQ2-cCegQIABAA&oq=jaeger+deutschland&gs_lcp=CgNpbWcQAzoECAAQQzoCCABQ5A9Y8h1g9R5oAHAAeACAAWOIAbwHkgECMTKYAQCgAQGqAQtnd3Mtd2l6LWltZ8ABAQ&sclient=img&ei=lxU8X-L3AY_glwTlmq2oDA&bih=948&biw=1657 https://www.google.com/search?q=jaeger+deutschland&tbm=isch&...
- bosie 6y agoAt least in Austria there is a game season (hunting is quite big) and game meat is in abundance.
- beached_whale 6y agoAnd our ability to manage wild animals is worse than our ability to farm. It's hugely politically negative to reduce the number's allowed, and there is always pressure for more even when counter to the evidence that it is detrimental. How many species of fish will go extinct before we figure this out. Fish used to be very common(look at the stories of the colonists coming to North America). Also, people are still eating bluefin tuna, it's endangered.