By Free Republic | Created at 2024-09-29 13:56:56 | Updated at 2024-09-30 07:33:19
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Beaver: America's other red meat?
Blaze Media ^ | September 28, 2024 | Kevin Ryan
Posted on 09/29/2024 6:37:58 AM PDT by Towed_Jumper
In America, we love poultry and beef.
Ninety percent of us consume chicken, averaging about 90 pounds per person annually. Beef is a bit less popular but still substantial. Americans eat around 60 pounds per person per year.
By contrast, only 25% of us regularly indulge in lamb — just one pound per person per year of this nutrient-dense meat. And if you narrow that group further, you’ll find the rare breed of super-carnivores who eat beaver.
Andy Hickman, a seasoned trapper, offers this perspective: “I have no idea why people don’t eat beaver meat more often. Trappers often give it away in big buckets, sometimes for free, and trapping seasons and bag limits are generous in many states. It’s tremendously nutritious and tasty — at pennies on the dollar.”
I reached out to Hickman, who is working on an article about beaver meat. He suggested I “spend some time trapping beavers, or at least with some trappers,” adding that “by skinning and cooking a beaver yourself, and tasting the meat, you’d learn all you need to know for your assignment.”
The idea was unappealing — not because I shy away from unusual food. I’ve tried alligator in onion-ring form and tasted a range of alternative cuisines during my stint as an English teacher in Spain: blood sausage (delicious), pig’s feet (gross), bull’s tail (like pot roast), tripe stew (good for hangovers), and lamb intestines (very chewy).
My hesitation lies in the hunting aspect. I should hunt, given my prolific meat-eating, but I find myself unable to.
Still, if a beaver were to attack one of my kids, I’d certainly fire up the grill. But there’s another question: Aren’t beavers supposed to be laid-back and cool?
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TOPICS: Food; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: beaver; food
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There are only two kinds of men in this world. Those who it beaver and those who don't.
1 posted on 09/29/2024 6:37:58 AM PDT by Towed_Jumper
To: Towed_Jumper
Red? I thought it was pink.
2 posted on 09/29/2024 6:40:14 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
To: Towed_Jumper
“There are only two kinds of men in this world. Those who it beaver and those who don’t.”
Real men eat beaver enthusiastically and often.
L
3 posted on 09/29/2024 6:40:36 AM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
To: Towed_Jumper
Then there is black beaver, yellow beaver, red beaver and white beaver.
To: Towed_Jumper
I’m only here for the comments.
5 posted on 09/29/2024 6:41:29 AM PDT by Natty Bumppo@frontier.net (We are the dangerous ones, who stand between all we love and a more dangerous w)
To: Lurker
6 posted on 09/29/2024 6:43:15 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Natty Bumppo@frontier.net
We used to trap beaver and muskrats. Beaver is best smoked with apple wood. Muskrat has very tender meat.
7 posted on 09/29/2024 6:43:17 AM PDT by oldasrocks
To: Towed_Jumper
Just be careful of the kind that can bite you back.
8 posted on 09/29/2024 6:43:27 AM PDT by Repeat Offender (While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy saints surrounded.)
To: Lurker
Michael Douglass was one.😎
9 posted on 09/29/2024 6:43:39 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
To: Towed_Jumper
10 posted on 09/29/2024 6:45:11 AM PDT by butlerweave
To: Towed_Jumper
11 posted on 09/29/2024 6:45:39 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie ("Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?" And I said, "Here I am! Send me." )
To: Natty Bumppo@frontier.net
Ditto.
I defer to all clever creepers will will undoubtedly run these comments into the hundreds…..
Although, truth be told, I’m a big fan of the beav……
RLTW
12 posted on 09/29/2024 6:45:53 AM PDT by military cop (I carry a .45....cause they don't make a .46....)
To: Towed_Jumper
13 posted on 09/29/2024 6:46:13 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage? (Drain the Swamp. Build the Wall.)
To: Natty Bumppo@frontier.net
I bet the overlap of commenters here and commenters on threads about Uranus is massive.
14 posted on 09/29/2024 6:47:44 AM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s² )
To: Towed_Jumper
15 posted on 09/29/2024 6:47:44 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
To: Towed_Jumper
Ask Michael Douglas about eating beaver.
16 posted on 09/29/2024 6:47:56 AM PDT by DFG
To: DIRTYSECRET
“Red? I thought it was pink.”
Only the ones who will touch it with a 10 foot pole are.
17 posted on 09/29/2024 6:48:17 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (They aren't RINO's, they are Democrats. Let's call them what they are and be done with it.)
To: DIRTYSECRET
Just keep your eyes shut.😆
18 posted on 09/29/2024 6:48:57 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
To: Repeat Offender
“Just be careful of the kind that can bite you back.”
Snappers?
19 posted on 09/29/2024 6:49:57 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
To: DFG
𝘈𝘴𝘬 𝘔𝘪𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘦𝘭 𝘋𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘭𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘳.
Considering the circumstances, I think this is one where you could agree that there are certainly worse ways to get throat cancer.
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