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Posted on 03/05/2025 8:48:28 AM PST by Red Badger
Swamp chicken is might fine eating if prepared by a redheaded Cajun queen I can personally attest to that.
Sauce Piquante, Gumbo, jambalaya too. East Texan’s have made Texas Red chili with it. Same for javelina, armadillo, raccoon, and squirrel all have graced my Texas Red pot.
Game meat is just normal to rural Texan’s and especially rural Louisiana folk. My step min from Breaux Bridge makes a mean gumbo with anything the swamp provided. Add opossum, alligator, gar for my LA step brethren, looking at my boys from Florida who add in python, iguana, and more alligators to the mix.
Swamp chicken is low on the exotic list for most game hunters and eaters. Lion now that’s exotic and delicious btw. Bobcat too. Black bear is some of the best steaks, people have though it was fillet of beef sous vide for hours first to kill trichinosis and it’s fat puts goose or duck fat to shame in baking and pan frying. Beaver is like dark meat turkey and grassy, woodchuck, ground hog, mink, prairie dog all edible some meh some pretty good chicken fried.
Coyote makes a surprisingly good Vietnamese thit cho, had it also as Korean Bulgogi both made by grandmothers of those ethnicities. My 25-06 is a yote busting stone cold killer, 75gr@4000fps is too much for chucks,ground hogs and prairie dog those red mist with nothing left. The cute little 17HMR puts varmint on the table every time. Chicken fried squirrel and pan gravy over bacon fat biscuits oh yes my friends.
On Thursday nights in New Orleans outside of Vaughan’s Lounge in 7th Ward they sell turtle and raccoon gumbo it’s spectacular. So yeah nutria is eaten on the regular in Louisiana not really news to locals or people who have fam in or from the swamp.
You can eat coyote it’s actually pretty good if prepared right ask a Korean or Vietnamese mom or grandmother to help out.
I shoot them fairly regularly, but you can buy the meat from a number of exotic game, here’s one.
Bobcat is good eating too. That same vendor will sell you some as well. It’s nearly identical to pork so much so you can barbacoa it.
https://fromfieldtoplate.com/2017/02/16/bobcat-barbacoa/
We had past tense a bobcat that was messing around with my beagles and the lawn goats it made a fine barbacoa once it meet the 17HMR one night with NVGs and IR laser.
There is great skill in this. When I was in AFrica, I would watch them catch an aguety by the tail and then swing it like a bucket of water for more gravity to keep it from biting them.
“I’ve heard of places out west where the government recommends eating the larger forms of wild cats.”
Absolutely, cat meat is really good. Bobcat can be mistaken for white meat pork you wouldn’t even have to tell the people eating it they would assume it’s pork it’s that close. African lion is white meat as well, so is Western mountain lion had all of them and they all cook up nicely.
It’s a myth about predator meat by people who have never gutted an animal in their life that all predator meat is “bad” no it’s not and properly killed and dressed out is good eating , safe too when fully cooked as any wild game should be.
Sous vide it if you really want to be sure 150F for two hours or more is clinical level of sterilization. Virus don’t survive those kinds of protein denaturing conditions let alone bacteria.
Pirons are only in brain and spinal tissue and only in certain species of ungulates. Predators that eat say a deer can pass pirons in the first to third feces but don’t get the illness themselves. This includes Puma,domestic canines, coyote and avians.
Actual hard science not armchair quarterbacks who never took a rifle to the field nor have any medical or scientific pedigree.
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/cellular-neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fncel.2020.00254/full
What part of Africa has Agouti? I have seen them all over central America and southern Mexico where they eat them all the time they are cousins of guinea pigs which the South Americans eat with vigor.
This guy has the same life goals i do. Hunt, fish or gather and eat every protein that is edible on this planet. Making one the ultra apex predator.
Human is on that list as well. It’s too bad most are so full of preservatives, heavy metals, pharmaceuticals and other bioaccumulated chemicals as to make human toxic to other humans. I know for a fact I would eat human my Native American ancestors certainly did the band name of my great grandmother’s band literally translates to eaters of the liver. Having served in the military I have already hunted humans we didn’t get to eat them though. So half checked off box.
Steven rocks, 11 seasons going and his recipes for game are spot on.
I’ve had nutria sausage. It was pretty good
Catch and process for fertilizer.
Long Pork is better than No Pork...............
I think our long tradition of not eating predators is based on solid ground. I’d guess the most important variable is the aesthetic one. Same idea with regard to the cabal trying to convince us to eat bugs. Won’t work, we’re not that stupid.
But my original point in this thread was that the government is inconsistent in what they tell us.
The whole no predator, no bottom feeder fish and shellfish ,no pork which is omnivorous thing is 100% due to lack of knowledge of microorganisms by primitive societies who had no concept of science and which religion was largely superstitions. Once humans got into the age where we can see microbes and now even sequence their very side of life via DNA. There is no reason to be superstitious in any form. Humans can rewrite DNA via CRISPR till our hearts desire. Humans even succeeded recently in creating synthetic life from scratch all base chemicals, edited and stitched together via AI implanted in a synthetic cell wall 100% inorganic to self replicating life. No other species ever on this planet has created life from.scratch we are unique and we are only beginning to explore synthetic life and AI intelligence on top of that. As a scientist it is great to be alive at this historic time.
You won’t catch me eating coyotes or bugs. And it’s not from superstition—as I said it’s an aesthetic value.
Religion is a tool of the devil. But those who deny their Creator are in great peril.
Is it that they don’t have the mental capacity to understand the flaw in their logic, or is their intellectual error the result of a poorly managed passion? I can tell you the answer.
Here’s the answer.
All human belief is based in passion, not intellect.
But this doesn’t mean everyone will be consigned to the path of intellectual error with the atheists and the agnostics.
The key is to adjust your passion in the way that it should go, then your intellect will have the direction it needs to find the right answers.
This is the adjustment: Love the truth more than you love yourself.
If you love yourself more than you love the truth, then you will go the way of the atheists because you will love sin more than you love God.
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