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Posted on 08/08/2026 5:04:15 AM PDT by Apparatchik
Cornell has updated its Community Living Standards to include a clause banning the processing of wild animals in communal kitchens. The update follows a September incident in which students skinned and butchered a legally hunted bear in a shared kitchen in Ganędagǫ: Hall, a residence hall on North Campus.
A University spokesperson confirmed that the update is a response to the Ganędagǫ: Hall incident.
“The policy aims to provide clarity regarding what is or is not appropriate to do in a communal kitchen space,” the spokesperson wrote.
On Sept. 6, two students hunted and killed an adult black bear in the Department of Environmental Conservation’s Region 4, approximately two hours from campus, before bringing it back to Ganędagǫ: Hall to process it.
Aaron Chin ’27, one of the bear skinners who revealed himself on the MeatEater Podcast, explained on the podcast that they intended to process the bear at a friend’s place, but they ran into an “emergency” and took it to the dormitory kitchen, not wanting to let the meat spoil.
The skinning was met with online backlash on Reddit and Sidechat, an anonymous social media platform, as images circulated showing the bear’s remains on the shared kitchen table and meat stored in ziploc bags in the dorm’s communal fridge.
The skinning also resulted in the kitchen being shut down for two days and fully sanitized by staff from Cornell’s Building Care Department.
The bear was hunted legally, per New York State’s bear hunting regulations, and no code violations were found following an investigation from the DEC.
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If God didn’t want us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?
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Tastes kinda like spotted owl.
I thought of George Costanza.
Wait a minute, the skinning was part of a sacred indigenous people’s ritual !!! *
*Ancient ritual, they were providing for their tribe.
The entire state of Wisconsin will help you process your meat. They are called the Green Bay packers because there is a meat packing business in every town. And every second house processes wild game in their kitchen and basement. while turkey and deer are most common, One town has a festival based on raccoon meat. And bear does happen. Its just more work and fewer animals. Plus it doesn’t taste as good.
I wondered about the name. It really does use non-standard vowels in a bow to multiculturalism, and it does contain a colon at the end of the name, apparently for the same reasons.
I do wonder if the name was selected because it contains a slur against certain southern Europeans.
So typical of the standard highfalutin university. How dare the students demonstrate a sense of “Rugged Individualism”? The same RG that brought our country into existence. Can’t have that now, can we.
Instead tell Reddit and Sidechat losers to grow up.
The thread should have been labeled “excerpt” as the below is at the end of the article...Are they kidding?
“”it can also create unsafe and unsanitary conditions for the community if not done in a manner that respects all members of the community,” the living standards state.””
A kitchen, especially a communal kitchen is not a place for processing fish and game. You don't pluck chickens in a kitchen, nor scale and gut fish, nor skin animals. Those tasks are done elsewhere.
Since bear can carry trichinosis, the 2 day shutdown for cleaning was warranted.
““Ganędagǫ:” (pronounced Gah‑NEH‑dah‑go) means “it’s in the hill” in the Gayogo̱hó:nǫʔ language, the Cayuga Nation’s own language, and refers to the ancestral name for the land upon which Cornell University’s Ithaca campus is built””
Part of NY history I never learned. I can verify “the hill” part. I worked at Cornell University in the mid 1950’s and definitely hilly as is the city of Ithaca.
The problem is not eating meat.
The problem is using a small dormitory kitchen to make a colossal mess while butchering a large animal. The action denied others use of the kitchen while the butchering was in process and very likely was not thoroughly cleaned afterward.
Dudes, that’s what a pickup truck’s bed is for! Right there in the parking lot! That’s the way you do it, don’t need to mess up the Misses’ kitchen….
They aren’t wild if they are dead.
Surprisingly, college age folks aren’t educated enough to know that food processing has no place in the kitchen.
IIRC-—YOU CAN COOK BEAR MEAT FOR HOURS & HOURS & IT STILL IS NOT READY TO EAT.
Trichinosis is common enough in wild bear populations that undercooked bear meat accounts for the vast majority—over 90%—of human trichinosis cases in the United States.
Unlike the species of roundworm commonly found in commercial pork, certain wildlife parasite species found in bears (such as Trichinella nativa) are freeze-resistant. Storing bear meat in a standard freezer for days or weeks does not kill the larvae.
Individual infected bears can carry thousands to millions of encapsulated larvae in their muscle tissue.
Tools and surfaces used in processing, such as knives and meat grinders, can transmit larvae between carrier meat and other foods not normally associated with trichinosis.
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