Well you see pfr, the species homo sapiens sapiens is not a primary predator we never have been. Way back in the old days we would let primary predators bring down large game then we would as a group drive them away from their kill. Over the course of time we learned to trap game and we also improved the tools (Weapons) we used to kill.


We are, fortunately, omnivores and as such we get no value out of freshly killed meat. For us to get the best value out of it and for us to properly digest it, it has to have been around a bit before we have a go at it.

For example:

1: Beef we normally hang for a minimum of 15 days

2: Large game such as Red Deer that has to hang for what they describe as 40 degree days (i.e. hang in an unrefrigerated place for the number of days it takes for daily recorded temperatures to accumulate to 40 degrees)

Any stockman at an abattoir where the vast majority of the meat we eat is slaughtered will tell you that the animals definitely know what fate is about to befall them, they come through the gates panicked and terrified with the smell of blood in their nostrils. Compare that to a grouse, who gets "scared" into flight may times a day every day of its natural adult life, who then quite unexpectantly gets shot - it has no idea what is happening, or what is going to happen, it has lived all it's life in total and perfect freedom up until it meets it's death - unlike our "domestic" animals whose diets we mess around with and some forced to live in some really bizarre conditions.