Is Wildlife Meat Really Safe and Organic? (Grab a bucket!)

Food Consumer ^ | December 11, 2010 | Martha Rosenberg

[Liz]

Amarone is one of the few reds that work well at a higher (room) temperature. I usually prefer my reds at about 60 degrees. Of course, I have no idea about room temperature in Alaska.

No problem---we're not going to drink it in Alaska.

[Liz]

LOL-——“Vegetarian is Indian for bad shot!”

[I still care]

That was the part of the this story that got me.

I can’t imagine killing an animal in the name of God.

I can thank the Lord for His bounty, for the grace of giving us good food, but to kill something in His name?

Everytime I hear a bit more about Islam, I have less and less respect for it. If that’s possible.

[Yaelle]

No, no,no, no. The wild grasses and seeds the caribou eats are Not nasty GMO corn or the other crap the feedlot cattle get!

[Liz]

Yummy.

[surroundedbyblue]

This crap-ass article was brought to you by the same crowd who cheers the crushing of baby skulls during late term abortions. God save the caribou. (can you hear my eyeballs rolling out of my head right now??)

[aruanan]

I ask yet again: what planet to these people live on?

On the luxury planet of diversified economy where someone else does the dirty work for them so often and so long that they don't even realize there's a dirty job down there. Yes, slaughterhouses are disgusting places with the smell of blood, crap, and everything else. But there's no other way to do it. Oh, wait, we could all become vegetarian. Oh, wait, you mean that stuff's grown in DIRT?

When I was in college my friend and I were doing a photography section for an outdoor education program. We had a meeting with all the student teacher participants at the camp. It was early in the spring. Around the buildings there at the camp, I noticed a lot of wild garlic growing (actually probably some kind of onion that dairy farmers try to keep their cows away from--so my uncle, the dairy farmer, told me). We were going to fix steak that night. I told my friend that it would taste really great with the steak. So we pulled up several bunches of them and took them in to the camp kitchen to wash the dirt off. One of the girls (who I am convinced was in early elementary ed because she really wanted to be a mommy) looked at it and said, "Ooooh. Don't put that on mine. It came from the DIRT." We laughed. I said, "You mean like carrots and lettuce and radishes?" The wild garlic steak tasted great. I didn't tell her the steak was actually muscle tissue from a steer that walked around in its own crap all day.

[aruanan]

I ask yet again: what planet to these people live on?

Oh, yeah. I remember when someone gave my dad a gunny sack full of live chickens. He gave them to my brother and me to kill. We tried the "hold them by the head and quickly swing them to break the neck/twist off the head" method. We also tried the hatchet on the stump routine. Eventually we got them all killed and took them to our mom who gutted them and then dunked them into big pots of boiling water. After that we sat for a long time plucking feathers. It was a pretty disgusting smell, but that didn't stop us from thoroughly enjoying the fried chicken later. I think it actually tasted better for all the work we put in on it. Sort of like the corn we enjoyed after gleaning fields once the commercial harvesters had gone through them.

[aruanan]

Of course Palin's point, that "if you want to have wild, organic, healthy food you're gonna go out there and hunt yourself," is sanctimonious and privileged.

FU, Maureen Dowd. FU, Martha Rosenberg.

[panthermom]

My son is in the woods right as I type this....hopin’ for some meat for the freezer!!!!

[OldPossum]

Why do you people insist on posting twenty-year-old pictures of Miss Dowd, knowing full well that she looks nothing like that now?

[TigersEye]

"Does Palin really think the average housewife in Ohio who can't pay her bills is going to load up on ammo, board two different planes, camp out for two nights with a film crew and shoot a caribou so she can feed her family organic food?" asks Dowd.

I could be wrong but I think there's a pretty good deer population in Ohio. But if Dowd wants to discourage gullible city slickers from eating wild game that's not all bad. They can eat Chinese made tofu.

[Texas Eagle]

Lead and wildlife diseases including the Mad Cow-like Chronic Wasting Disease make eating the caribou less safe than other meat, not more.

Chronic Wasting Disease! Ha haaaaa! Sounds like a strain of Palin Derangement Syndrome.

[Oztrich Boy]

Response: Did it take Palin six shots, two rifles and help from her dad to bring down a caribou?

Technically, yes. But not a big deal Why Have Some Hunters Declared Open Season on Sarah Palin?

[sten]

The avg housewife in Ohio, depending on where, is most likely a drug addled half wit that was pregnant by 17, flunked out of high school, gets stoned weekly, if not daily, and has multiple ‘baby daddies’ by the time she is 25. She has been sucking on the govt teet since she was 16 and has no plans to stop. She expects, nay.. demands... The rich should pay for her existence due to the ‘unfair’ conditions she grew up in.

Yea... We should berate the self made and celebrate the incompetent. That’s the progressive way

[TommyDale]

Well this woman would have made me think about dumping Dowd, too! Oops...was that a bad thing to say?

[Liz]

Yeah, but Catherine Zeta Jones still looks like that.

[TigersEye]

Almost everyone dumps a Dowd once or twice a day.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

They don't?

You are aware that caribou often get into gardens and eat the corn and other plants growing there?

In fact there is not much better eating then a caribou that has hung around fields and orchards.

[Liz]

It’s OK.