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Eating City Squirrels?
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I guess my recipe for squirrel was too offensive for this forum and was removed.
My sincere apologies to those who were traumatized. I did not intend for the post to offend.
My sincere apologies to those who were traumatized. I did not intend for the post to offend.
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The animals around Chernobyl are actually pretty clean. Don't eat the pigs (because they eat mushrooms which concentrate radioactive isotopes) and you'll be fine.
Generally speaking if you're asking on the internet you don't have access to local folk-knowledge about what contaminants are in the environment. That's why I suggested testing -- it doesn't hurt to know.
You can often find some really interesting information about your environment with tests like this. Perhaps your home is downstream from an old abandoned mine that everyone has forgotten about, etc.
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Man I drink from water hose on hot day still. Bill gates ain't killed me yet. Still eat snow and rather not know every danger out there.
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Not sure what you're getting at. I'm not talking about UFOs or conspiracy theories. I'm just saying that science does have some practical purposes. If you're not in a comfy position like you where you have folk knowledge of what is safe and what isn't, testing is an excellent equalizer.
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No your right about it being useful. Just maybe I feel its odd application for small game. But do want to say I respect the resource matter you provided to the original question of this form. Please take no offense to my odd perspective and opinions on your statement. Im sure we'd kill a ton of squirrels together and all that.
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I would not eat any doves shot in any city either. A friend of mine and I used to go to a certain Oriental restaurant as the portions were large and it was inexpensive. Both of us were on very limited incomes. At one point, I noticed that every time we went there I would get sick. He didn't but I did. I told him I did not want to go there with him anymore. He said I was nuts. A few months later, I saw an article in our local paper that the place had been shut down because the owner was trapping pigeons on the roof of his business, and serving them as chicken.
Pigeons on city roofs are controlled with poison as their droppings do a lot of damage. It became obvious how the place could serve such large portions for such a low price.
Pigeons on city roofs are controlled with poison as their droppings do a lot of damage. It became obvious how the place could serve such large portions for such a low price.
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Yeah, testing always feels like overkill.
But if you test and you find out a squirrel has arsenic levels where 5 in a year would cause blindness, you'd want to know. Unlikely, sure. That level of arsenic you'd probably be able to taste.
But if your house is sitting on an abandoned gold mine tailings pond and you didn't know, in that case you'd feel silly not spending the money.
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If you enjoy taking them dead you can make money by selling the tails for fly fishing lures to the lure companies.
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I live in a sort of rural area but close enough to a few cities. I've been eating squirrels out of my yard for years. I always just check for abseses or other things that look weird like spotty livers etc. Make sure they are well done and you should be fine!
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