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Thread #95046   Message #1846064
Posted By: GUEST,Bee
29-Sep-06 - 12:22 PM
Thread Name: BS: Shooting (hunting) and jobs in the UK
Subject: RE: BS: Shooting (hunting) and jobs in the UK
I don't hunt. But I second Dave on the common inclusion of wild caught or killed fish and game in the rural diet in Canada. Rural areas here are not doing well economically. Anyone who hunts and comes home with a large animal (deer, moose) or a lot of geese or ducks generally passes the meat out among friends and neighbours, and it is welcome. Store meat is expensive (and so are vegetables, as a matter of fact). A few kilos of free meat can mean paying a bill that week instead of spending the cash at a grocery.

That said, whoever decided wild fish-eating ducks were edible must have been very hungry indeed.