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Post by kerouac2 on Nov 2, 2020 16:30:58 GMT
Actually, in France it is quite common to see hares, pheasants, partridges and other such animals displayed hanging in markets during hunting season. i assume that this is done in other European countries, too. After all, we see lobsters, prawns and all sorts of other seafood displayed whole, so there is no reason to find it shocking. However, a supermarket near Avignon displayed whole animals in their refrigerated cases last week, and many people found it horribly shocking. I guess most of us just prefer to see naked flesh for sale and never imagine that it was once a living creature. dead animals to eat
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 3, 2020 4:04:43 GMT
Maybe there is some rule that game animals have to be sold fur and all to differentiate them from livestock?
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Post by tod2 on Nov 3, 2020 16:37:20 GMT
Kerouqac, thanks for that insight. It looks quite calm compared to huge cow heads , eyes stating blankly and tongues hanging out, that I saw in Super Spar in the small town of Malelane outside the Kruger Park. Its quite a hideous sight if you do not have a strong stomach.
I will admit I have no idea why they would sell Hare like that as most modern brides haven't a clue about skinning a rabbit, neither would they want to. To my mind if the farmer snared/shot the hare , or his wife . they would dispense with it poste- haste!
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Post by kerouac2 on Nov 3, 2020 16:41:54 GMT
I think it is the cling wrap that makes the photos unbearable. When they are displayed on hooks at the street market, it doesn't bother anybody.
FWIW, game can only be sold in France during the period of hunting season, even if it were to be imported from another country with different dates.
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Post by tod2 on Nov 3, 2020 16:55:07 GMT
Then I guess there is a steady amount of city folks just waiting for the hunting season. Older folks who maybe got to watch a skinning or two in mother's kitchen.
Do you know I have never eaten rabbit/hare in my life! No great loss as I think its hard to tell the difference between rabbit and chicken.
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 3, 2020 17:07:34 GMT
most modern brides haven't a clue about skinning a rabbit I am a whiz at skinning squirrel, also catfish. Of course I'm hardly a modern bride. game can only be sold in France during the period of hunting season I don't know about the rest of the US, but in Louisiana it is/was illegal to sell game. I can remember my grandfather & uncle, who had a general store, trading shotgun shells for game.
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Post by lugg on Nov 3, 2020 19:25:20 GMT
Does anybody know what the animal is that is next to the rabbit / hare in the video - I cant quite make it out ? Here you can sell game at any time of year - its not so much unplucked / unskinned unless bought direct from the source in the main although some butchers hang birds such as pheasant / partridege in their plumage. I have never seen displays such as those in the supermarkets locally and yes I agree the cling film does make it all look highly unappetising - all the ticks / fleas etc must be leaving their host and getting caught up in the cling film packaging ...yuk Do you know I have never eaten rabbit/hare in my life! No great loss as I think its hard to tell the difference between rabbit and chicken. ...I have eaten rabbit and it is different in so much as there are many more bones and less meat. I would never choose to eat it unless I had to.
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Post by questa on Nov 4, 2020 2:19:54 GMT
I used to trap rabbits (a major ecological curse in Oz)to sell their skins for making Akubra hats. The meat is dry for most methods of cooking but a meaty stew with veg and crusty bread is delicious. Hares are rare here although there are several colonies on Adelaide Airport. There was a hare-coursing track close to where the airport was built and these were offspring of the hares who beat the dogs.
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