Posted on 02/06/2025 7:28:54 AM PST by READINABLUESTATE
Should Minnesotans be allowed to consume a beaver that damages their property?
It’s the third-biggest question surrounding the animals in Minnesota, right behind the age-old question of “How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?” and “Who eats beavers?”
A bill introduced by DFL State Senator Grant Hauschild aims to answer at least one of those questions by once again allowing Minnesotans to eat any nuisance beavers they killed.
(Excerpt) Read more at kstp.com ...
eating beaver is a delicacy to those that appreciate the experience...
I love it! We both come from good stock. :)
My Grandma Anita (Mom’s Mother) would’ve been shooting out the bathroom window, too!
She could feed ALL of us on whatever Grandpa ‘dragged home that day’ and a few boiled potatoes.
And her homemade BREAD? OMG! To DIE for!
Any leftovers, and there were FEW, were used to bait squirrels... ;)
If you ever decide to harvest a dress one, be sure to steer well clear of the castor sac. It contains a concentrated scent oil called castoreum. If you nick one of those sacs, the oil will wreck the meat as well as the smell of whatever area you are dressing it in.
I should have added to my story. My mother lived in a city. She only shot when she knew the next door neighbors were there and could see the barrel sticking out the window. I asked her what she did with the evidence, she said she waited until after dark and went out in the back yard and then put the dead squirrels in the trash pickup. She was a very good shot, she grew up deer hunting.
oops, she only shot when she knew the next door neighbors were not there.
Yes, I have read that the members of the Lewis and Clark expedition regularly had beaver tails as food, since these animals were so plentiful in the Northwestern US in those days.
Maybe it’s an interesting snippet of history…
I was waiting for that cartoon! LOL
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