5 ms·
selling wild game appears to be illegal in Canada like it is in the US. Ostensibly the reason is because of risk of illness but it's likely also due to lobbyin
by mkoubaa 4y ago
selling wild game appears to be illegal in Canada like it is in the US. Ostensibly the reason is because of risk of illness but it's likely also due to lobbying by farmers.
I think there's a solution staring at us in the face here
- xwdv 4y agoCanadians should simply rise up and eat these pigs.
- haram_masala 4y agoMost of those pigs are, by western standards, inedible. With the exception of the very young adults (and the piglets), their meat is tough and has a very objectionable gamer/musty/garbage-y flavor. Texas is contending with a similar problem, and if Texans can’t find a way to eat them, you know that meat is worthless.
- wankle 4y ago> very objectionable gamer/musty/garbage-y flavor Speaking as a gamer, I can relate.
- starkd 4y agoBut isn't that true of most any game meat? I've heard that bear meat can be tough and grisly, but I was told it depends on how you butcher it.
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- Turing_Machine 4y ago> But isn't that true of most any game meat? Most so-called "gamey" meat is down to poor handling of the meat. Hogs are an exception... uncastrated males do taste bad to many people.
- coffeebeqn 4y agoI always thought gamey was from high activity of the muscles. Farmed animals certainly don’t run around forests fending for themselves
- b112 4y agoI always thought gamey was from high activity of the muscles An animal's diet affects its flavour. Eating all manner of random foods, makes partially the gamey flavour.
- mpsprd 4y agoI've eaten deer, moose and even beaver from hunting and trapping. They will taste amazing if handled well and given early to a butcher. Old bucks don't taste as good, but younger deer have amazingly tender meat.
- wolfram74 4y agoIs this a problem that can be solved with enough chili powder? I'm not a terribly picky eater or familiar with wild game, just have a lot of confidence in gastro science.
- ThrowawayTestr 4y agoHow much chilli powder does it take to kill parasites?
- tmoertel 4y agoDoes cooking not kill the parasites?
- HarryHirsch 4y agoCooking does, but the best thing about the pig is that you can turn it into sausage, and improperly prepared sausage puts the consumer at risk for trichinosis.
- stametseater 4y agoGamma irradiation is very effective at killing trichinosis in swine flesh and is approved for this purpose in America.
- HarryHirsch 4y agoA cobalt source for the home? That's plainly nuts. In Europe they dealt very successfully with trichinosis by inspecting pig carcasses. But I have no idea if you can take a muscle sample from a porker you shot yourself to your local large-animal veterinarian to see if it's trichinotic. (In rural areas they just might that service - back then in my home village we had that pharmacist who was a devoted mushroom hunter, and people would run their mushrooms past him for identification if they weren't really sure.)
- Turing_Machine 4y ago> very objectionable gamer/musty/garbage-y flavor Uncastrated males do, certainly -- the same is true of domestic hogs. Females don't. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boar_taint https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boar_taint
- netr0ute 4y agoWhat if you slathered the meat with barbecue sauce and chili peppers? Then there might actually be a chance.
- mkoubaa 4y agoYes but we can process the shit out of the meat and add msg etc. It doesn't have to be bbq
- dgb23 4y agoThat's what I'm thinking too. There are a lot of products that are made from highly processed unidentifiable meat stuff. My dogs certainly wouldn't object to feral gamey pig meat either. I sometimes think the more disgusting the food the more they like it...
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- bryanlarsen 4y agoHunters caused the problem, we shouldn't encourage them to make it worse. https://www.agweb.com/news/livestock/pork/pigs-dont-fly-feral-hog-spread-man-made-mess https://www.agweb.com/news/livestock/pork/pigs-dont-fly-fera...
- mpsprd 4y agoCanadian hunter here. From my understanding this is mostly to avoid poaching. At least here in QC hunting laws are extremely strict to protect the populations. I believe other provinces have similar laws (it's a provincial jurisdiction) It's too bad that the meat from these is inedible, but I wonder if it's related to their diet. Maybe some soy field diet would make them more palatable?
- therealjumbo 4y agoThe original reason for banning sales of wild game meat in NA is because species were being driven extinct or extirpated due to hunting. https://www.grandviewoutdoors.com/big-game-hunting/should-you-be-allowed-to-sell-venison https://www.grandviewoutdoors.com/big-game-hunting/should-yo... Unfortunately allowing selling of specific species we don't like that reproduce easily would probably just lead to private land owners promoting habitat and food for that species on their land. That's what's happened in Texas on a lot of private ranches due to the popularity of pig hunting. Texas is mostly private land, unlike Montana which is mostly public but still.
- taeric 4y agoI mean, I have no doubt there is some regulatory capture going on here. That said, this is also the kind of regulation that was written in lives lost. Wild game can be done safely, sure. But typically not at large, and best to let the folks taking the risk be the ones eating it. That is, it works now because there is no incentive to just at mass capture any feral/wild animal that you can, butcher it, and sell it. As soon as that incentive does exist, expect lots of problems.