*Watches a turkey kill his best friend*

OMG It killed my best friend! GIVE IT A MEDAL!!

Well, Taw, as you said, Don't try it yourself, and I don't really eat everything But I do eat some of the skin, and bite my way through the neck. But I don't eat every single bit of the Interior, I just leave it for the wolves to have a snack.
Btw, The last time I did it was about a month ago, and I don't plan on doing it again anymore

you'll die of food poisoning you loon, and it will be your own fault. Ugh! what a horrible habit.. Raw meat like beef or steak i can understand, even bacon and ham, and prepared properly they can be quite tasty uncooked, but poultry and fish should NEVER be eaten uncooked, with certain very specific exceptions (eg sushi) Poultry because of salmonella and e-coli, fish because of flukes and other parasites as well as certain toxins. Oh man, I feel ill just thinking about it.

@Taw,

Seeing as SnS seems unavailable to reply, wild turkeys, after all, is how domesticated turkeys got started. And I am sure you're just pulling our legs here but so as not to mislead others. Wild turkeys are native to North America. They were in the ebb, bordering on extinction until the ban on DDT (used as pesticide) went into effect and laws to protect against over-hunting, etc.

They slowly are returning. Benjamin Franklin, when it came to choose a national emblem advocated choosing the wild turkey over the fish....er, bald eagle but others did not find the turkey quite as majestic or awe inspiring. The wild variety actually are a hunting challenge while the domesticated ones are about as intelligent as a door knob.

>>>>Regarding sushi>>>>>
Altho the preference is for fresh fresh fresh, in fact a lot of the fish served at sushi restaurants, even the priciest ones, are deep flash frozen. This goes especially for the tuna cuts, toro, maguro, etc.

AND this freezing process is a very good thing. It kills any of those parasitic bugs as you've mentioned. Altho, generally, the fish used in sushi are species less likely to have those bugs as problems. I.e. Never eat swordfish in the raw, better yet, avoid swordfish altogether cooked or otherwise.

My favorite bird would have to be the perigon(I think thats how it's spelled) falcon. When it dives it can go up to a speed of 200 MPH!

Well, my favorite bird is a big old white duck that has a very strange habit. It has been caught on video going around talking. But it only says one thing, AFLAC.

Michael
"Hezekiah"

Peregrine falcon. Peregrine also has been used as a male first name form some relatively poshy families in England iirc.

I didn't think there were any left in the wild, Ed, that's what. I thoughtthey'd been pretty much eradicated, y'know, like the passenger pigeon, the buffalo (couldn't fly anyway) and other such.

so wild turkeys are aggressive, hmmmm? v-er-y interesting that. so turkeys virtually vanish, due to extermination and domestication, but return to the wild years later as a super-aggressive strain. And prey upon isolated human settlements. Hmmmm.

*pulls in on reins*

Whoa. Nelly! Slow down there pardner!

Wild turkeys never were eradicated totally. However, they were over-hunted as well as threatened by pesticides. Preservation laws were enforced and enforcable because turkey hunting is a highly respected tradition in many parts of the country. The wild turkeys have begun to re-populate areas.

They always were difficult to hunt. NOT because they are aggressive (no Attack of the Killer Tomatos this), but because they are very difficult to track down... unlike their domestic cousins.

Today, even more of a success, indeed bordering on a pestilence, on preservation efforts is the white tailed deer population. It is booming and winter kills have not alleviated the over-abundance of deer. I read somewhere that the current population is in the area of between 20 and 30 million. They are eating up everything in sight. Black bears, also, are becoming a problem.

Large predators are still not caught up with the deer but there is talk of re-introducing timber wolves and grey wolves to the Northeast to counterbalance the deer problem. No one seems to know what to do about the black bears.

you're kidding me, right? Black bears wandering around, that's mental. Wolves? like the sheep farmers are gonna go for that - not.

As to the turkey problem, turkeys hard to spot? A few well placed explosives and a spray of automatic fire should teach them who's at the top of the food chain

We did have an escape of mink* a few years ago, and that's about it. Britannia isn't known for it's dangerous fauna.

Arch should remember that cos it took place on a farm about halfway between where he lives and where I live. i actually found one in me back garden going through me bin, now that was weird "Oh look duck theres a mink in the dustbin.."

The Greenies are influential enough in my area to make it difficult for the local governments to permit hunting of bear. The conducted a controlled kill last Fall by licensing some professionals to conduct a hunt down in a prescribed geographic plot that was believed to have the densest concentration of black bear.

Repopulation of forests with timber wolves or grey wolves is the Greenies' answer to deer overpopulation. Indeed, one hesitates to think what it might be like if an open hunting season for deer were to be allowed. One probably would have to keep a running count of deer vs. hunters bagged in a situation like that.

I guess it is difficult for you to imagine but there are still very large tracts of wilderness in New Jersey, New York and Connecticut. The proposed repopulation of wolves is for those areas. I have, of coursed, questioned this strategy as it seems to me that what will happen is that the deer will move out and into more developed lands as a result and the wolves are sure to follow.

We need to build a venison eating tradition, it seems. Get back to Native American roots, if any.

in your area? midtown Manhattan? gerroff. You mean upstate shurely don't you?

Upstate, well yes, I guess. I only need to go southwest, west, north or northeast about 30 or 40 miles.

You're not joking are you? Bears an hours drive form NYC? Who'd have thought it?