Not eating 100 percent wild, a psychological fear I'd like to overcome

(Joey) #21

Didn’t think of the Inuit as big rabbit hunters. I stand corrected!

#22

Of course they did. Not modern people had to, waste not want not but even many of us see that in our country… Don’t we? I know some countries are weird but not all of them…

The meat counters and fridges of supermarkets are full with fatty meats and pure fat tissue here… Of course we eat it. The dietary guides always bemoan this but good luck to persuade people not to eat the tasty fat.
They should talk about eating less carbs if you ask me. There would be huge resistance there too, well if it would be too severe but at least don’t push it so very much!

Circumstances were against me and I took huge efforts, 3 hours and some pain (I am limping now) to bring a single rabbit home but I did! Home-raised young rabbit, fattier than a wild one but it really has little visible fat. Piglets are vastly different, I still can’t wrap my head aroung the tiny super fatty piglet we ate once. But all parts were superb. I only left the bones (I already got it cleaned but whole, with head and everything so there was brain :slight_smile: don’t remember if there were organs. whole animals except fowls usually come - sorry if it’s not the right verb, IDK what it is then - with them. when we bought a goat kid, we got more than its share as other didn’t want it so much. the rabbit always comes headless, with liver and kidneys only. not even a heart is present.).

Many animals are lean to begin with, of course wild rabbit is on its own level… Never even ate one, ever. I prefer fattier meat. But a rabbit stew is quite delicious now and then :wink:

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #23

Not too many rabbits on the Arctic tundra, I believe. I was thinking more of seal, walrus, elk, that sort of thing.

Jay Wortman’s people (he’s a métis, never heard him say from which tribe or tribes) still today fish for oolican, which is a very oily fish. Whole tribes pick up and move to the spawning grounds. Oolican grease is a major staple of the traditional native diet over a large part of northern North America, apparently.