Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: 5th MEB; SunkenCiv; All

Why revive, because they are good eating. They were a very important source of protein in the diet of poor settlers and slaves for centuries. There are probably plenty of people who would eat them today if they were available in quantities, and a lot of them would be lower income.


62 posted on 01/16/2016 7:56:22 PM PST by gleeaikin
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 53 | View Replies ]


To: gleeaikin

The Passenger Pigeon went extinct because of the demand for squab back east, and the ease with which huge numbers could be harvested with a couple of shotgun blasts. They didn’t come back because of habitat destruction (their big nesting area was over in the Thumb of Michigan somewhere, like the rest of the state it got lumbered out).


74 posted on 01/16/2016 9:01:15 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 62 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson