Man, I didn't know wild meat in general was something people thought to ban! Like, sure, endangered species, or species that are major health risks, but if a rabbit is eating your crop garden, it only makes good sense, if you kill it, to eat it! And plenty of people can't afford to buy meat (or live in food deserts) but have wild edible animals running around!
I think just about anything people with less money do to survive is something people with more money and power try to ban at one point or another.
I read an awesome essay about how researchers working to save X Endangered Animal from being eaten by The Locals realized the easiest and best solution was to give The Locals some chickens, which were a much more sustainable source of food and benefited The Local Economy tremendously.
Mori: Maybe because my main understanding of wild meat eaters are rural people in food deserts with strong local hunting (or roadkill foraging) traditions, but it just makes sense to me. Seems more humane than factory farming for sure!
We got wild hog meat that way once and that shit was fucking delicious!
I read an awesome essay about how researchers working to save X Endangered Animal from being eaten by The Locals realized the easiest and best solution was to give The Locals some chickens, which were a much more sustainable source of food and benefited The Local Economy tremendously.
And I found this essay on the terminology used to describe wild meat, and how the inevitable colonial divide of “bushmeat” versus “game” applies to, well, everything:
One-time bookstore clerk and great-granddaughter, grandniece (on at least two counts), niece, daughter, and aunt of teachers. (That tiresome old saw about how (U.S.) teachers have it easy because they only have to work nine months out of the year? I was an adult by the time I first heard that.)
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Date: 2024-10-05 09:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-10-07 05:57 am (UTC)I think just about anything people with less money do to survive is something people with more money and power try to ban at one point or another.
I read an awesome essay about how researchers working to save X Endangered Animal from being eaten by The Locals realized the easiest and best solution was to give The Locals some chickens, which were a much more sustainable source of food and benefited The Local Economy tremendously.
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Date: 2024-10-07 03:58 pm (UTC)We got wild hog meat that way once and that shit was fucking delicious!
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Date: 2024-10-08 01:58 am (UTC)Of course wild meat makes sense! Would write more but vv tired.
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Date: 2024-10-11 05:13 am (UTC)Is this the one you’re thinking of?
https://nothorses.tumblr.com/post/760944143020212224/hope-its-okay-for-me-to-save-these-tags-from#notes
And I found this essay on the terminology used to describe wild meat, and how the inevitable colonial divide of “bushmeat” versus “game” applies to, well, everything:
https://brittlepaper.com/2017/08/longer-term-game-bushmeat-chika-unigwe/
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Date: 2024-10-11 12:26 pm (UTC)Yes that one! and of course there is an obnoxious, constructed division between game and wild meat as terminology.
Are you a librarian? You keep coming up with information!
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Date: 2024-10-11 05:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-10-05 09:34 pm (UTC)