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From Pets To Plates: Why More People Are Eating Guinea Pigs
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| April 2, 2013
| Alastair Bland
Posted on 04/21/2013 3:30:01 PM PDT by grundle
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To: grundle
The day I start fretting about the environmental impact of my food is the day I need to be locked up.
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posted on
04/21/2013 4:05:32 PM PDT
by
elkfersupper
( Member of the Original Defiant Class)
To: VanShuyten
On the other hand, ribs used to be for the slaves, while certain glands were called "sweetmeats" and eaten by the elite.
Tongue was considered choice.
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posted on
04/21/2013 4:07:10 PM PDT
by
piasa
(Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
To: penelopesire
So they want to teach us to eat rats for environmental reasons
Be prepared for Florida python and black snack cuisine, and of course NYC domesticated sewer rat on the school lunch menu.
To: grundle
Can a ‘herd’ of 22 of them sustain a family of six?? Yeah, but only if all six are vegetarians. Gotta save Mother Erf, ya’know.
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posted on
04/21/2013 4:08:59 PM PDT
by
Bob
To: Tijeras_Slim
He expected it would taste like fudge?
45
posted on
04/21/2013 4:09:13 PM PDT
by
piasa
(Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
To: grundle
46
posted on
04/21/2013 4:11:17 PM PDT
by
hotshu
(Redistribution of wealth by the government is nothing but theft under the color of law.)
To: driftdiver
In about 1948 there was a similar appeal to eat rabbits. My dad was bitten and got some rabbits. Before long we had more and more and more.
He couldn’t or even perhaps wouldn’t sell the excess. We ate rabbit a lot. It was or actually is, good. There are lots of ways to prepare it.
The real problem was the killing and skinning. It was actual work. maybe on a farm with out a day job it might be ok.
There had been a depression and then a war that prompted such thinking.
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posted on
04/21/2013 4:11:58 PM PDT
by
bert
((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 .....History is a process, not an event)
To: stars & stripes forever
Well....I will be going into the black market cattle business should that come to pass....see ya on the range! LOL
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posted on
04/21/2013 4:12:14 PM PDT
by
penelopesire
(TIME FOR OBAMA TO ANSWER FOR BENGHAZI UNDER OATH!!)
To: tflabo
Maybe rabbit being the only exception.Rabbits are not rodents, although they do carry similar diseases. I'm thinking something like leporidae?
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posted on
04/21/2013 4:13:03 PM PDT
by
elkfersupper
( Member of the Original Defiant Class)
To: stars & stripes forever
“NYC rats on the menu.” If the SHTF, this wouldn’t surprise me at all. My bro went to Nam to teach English. Rat Is a staple.
To: Tijeras_Slim
You know Manderson Pooper? I’m impressed.
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posted on
04/21/2013 4:14:10 PM PDT
by
Carriage Hill
(No one can go back and make a new start, but anyone can start from now, and make a new ending.)
To: Wyrd bið ful aræd
A pig that likes donuts???? UNFREEPINGBELIEVABLE
To: stars & stripes forever
A tethered guinea pig in the everglades will attract a python that can be killed and a bounty coillected. With the bounty one can buy a steak
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posted on
04/21/2013 4:19:49 PM PDT
by
bert
((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 .....History is a process, not an event)
To: grundle
I bought two “female piggys” a few years back for pets and 6 months later had 10.
The critters can get prego immediately after birthing.
These are great for preppers.
Cute too.
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posted on
04/21/2013 4:20:58 PM PDT
by
right way right
(What's it gonna take? (guillotines?))
To: Wyrd bið ful aræd
I knew a pig that, no kidding, loved donuts. That's a horrible thing to say about me.
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posted on
04/21/2013 4:23:35 PM PDT
by
upchuck
(To the faceless, jack-booted government bureaucrat who just scanned this post: SCREW YOU!)
To: bert
Due to the fact that most commercial rabbit operations are small, and the diseases that prey on rabbits are highly communicable, there are some very restrictive mareting orders on rabbits.
These apply to people who breed them for any purpose (meat, to fur, to Easter presents), and to amateurs as well as professionals.
What that means is even if you give your rabbits away, there are restrictions on how many and under what conditions.
None of the marketing order rules on rabbits make much sense in terms of how cattle and chickens are raised, and that's where folks get in trouble raising rabbits.
We've discussed the marketing orders on FR in the past ~ they actually do make sense for commercial rabbit raisers, but basically if you want to raise rabbits for home consumption, keep them there! Don't give away even one!
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posted on
04/21/2013 4:26:14 PM PDT
by
muawiyah
To: Tijeras_Slim
>>I know a guy who ate gerbil, said it tasted like crap.<<
Did you ask him what crap tastes like?
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posted on
04/21/2013 4:39:10 PM PDT
by
B4Ranch
( There's Two Choices. Stand Up and Be Counted ... Or Line Up and Be Numbered.)
To: bigheadfred
And the local cops would bring said pig boxes of donuts.
To: grundle; All
What a charming idea! I could get really enthusiastic about eating some little grilled/roasted/breaded? "cuy"...
NOT!!!Call me unadventurous (whoever said NYC sewer rats, RIGHT! Eeewww..no way!) but I'll stick to grilled cheese and veg. if that's the choice!
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posted on
04/21/2013 4:46:13 PM PDT
by
88keys
(truth will out...eventually...)
To: grundle
Just got back from Peru where we were served them as a delicacy. They taste like chicken.
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