Its too extreme for his daughter to take a bite out of a deer’s heart but if she wants to have an abortion, get a sex change or do drugs, hey, that’s just a matter of her choice . . . .
Seems kind of weird to me, with no genuine good reason for it — plus, we would not know without examining the carcass whether it’s infested with something. I’d be for keeping the meat and giblets (if they are called that) as clean as possible and using it for food later.
Is Hunting Ritual too Extreme?
Don’t tell them that their steak is a muscle from a cow cut in slices perpendicular to the muscle grain.
Dang. I just drooled on my keyboard.
I personally wouldn’t do it, or let my kids do it for fear of disease/parasites/deer TB.
All game that goes in my mouth is thoroughly cooked. It’s a safety thing...
If that’s too extreme, then being a Native American is too extreme.
Good grief!
We eat pig’s feet, sweetbreads, tongue, Rock Mountain oysters, haggis, chopped liver and foie gras. Why is eating the heart so extreme?
This whole thread reminds me of a very old warning: If you really like sausage, it’s best that you don’t know how it’s made.
BTW, that is not what I would ever require of my own daughter if/when I ever have one. But if she really wants to, then I’d be cool with it.
But if I had a son, by the time he’s seventeen he will have killed an animal. I would prefer he put down one that is already suffering and doomed, but hunting would be an option. Knowing in your heart that you can kill is necessary for being a true man.
In our day they just painted some of the blood (mixed with a few other choice bits) onto the face of the lucky hunter and he had to wear it until after supper. If he shot and missed, they cut his shirt tail. No heart biting.
It hurts the deer, killing the unborn doesn’t
I bet they do some other extreme things together. Like physically going to the same area out of season and taking care of the environment and making it better for the deer and other animals.
A more caring family would donate to an environmental group, that would lobby to get laws and budgets passed, to hire government workers to supervise other workers to clean up carcasses of animals that died of starvation or disease, and discuss ways to stop the deaths from happening in the future.
I wouldn’t do it. I don’t have a problem with people who would.
They eat fish raw, don’t they? I guess its different if a guy in a white cap is fixing it for you.
I would never allow my child to do that. There are way too many diseases that he/she could catch.
There are very tasty ways to cook heart.
Ok, I don’t care if it is their tradition, but that is nasty.
Seriously, parents, stop sharing all of your business online.
I had the liver after my first one. Very happy day for me.
Well if they wanted to be PC about it I guess they could grill the heart and take a pic of the kid. Dipping it in A-1 sauce. :-)
If the animal was not Halakhically dead at the time, she committed an extremely serious sin (for which the father is responsible).