My grandfather, an Appalachian boy, liked to eat squirrel brains with scrambled eggs. It came out a few years back that eating squirrel brains caused that same deadly nerve disease that was ravaging the cattle in the UK. They had been feeding the cattle feed made from infected sheep; then they later discovered that some of the cases in the United States were caused by eating squirrel brains. Yuk! to that anyway. As for eating squirrel meat in general, they’re a pain to clean or so my husband now says. He used to hunt and eat them years ago. No more.
That’s a good observation, Twinkie. It might be best to feed the squirrel brains to chickens first, and then eat the eggs that the chickens lay. It seems that fowls neither develop nor transmit encephalopathies like scrapie or mad cow disease.
Of course, scientists will probably find out just the opposite any day now . . .