In an emergency, is it safe to eat the geese at my local park?

[guntha45]

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Thanks, in regard to your user name, is it related to Taylor, Rigby, Remington, or Weatherby?

 

[roosterhavoc]

If the world is ending why bother eating at all?

 

[SulkyBantam]

What situation are you talking about? Giant-asteroid-impact or civilization-collapse? I'd definitely try and survive the latter.

 

[The Moonshiner]

If the world is ending why bother eating at all?
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Guess it depends if its ending suddenly or a long drawn out ending.
If the latter case id want to keep my strength up to create havoc on the unprepared.

 

[nuthatched]

There's people who catch and eat city pigeons, you'd think they eat garbage but when the crop was opened, it was all bird seeds and bread. ( it was on dirty jobs, I think)
I'd totally eat a water poultry at the park if it came down to it, my family is worth more than the pretty swans at the park.

 

[roosterhavoc]

Guess it depends if its ending suddenly or a long drawn out ending.
If the latter case id want to keep my strength up to create havoc on the unprepared.

 

[416bigbore]

Thanks, in regard to your user name, is it related to Taylor, Rigby, Remington, or Weatherby?

Thank you, Long story short I have a rem 416 that was custom built for me as a gift. I could PM you pics if your interested.

 

[NatJ]

Do I just have to cook them really well? Or are there other butcher things I'd have to know to have a safe eating experience?

Basic tips for any occasion:
Wash your hands after handling animals, alive or dead.
Cook the meat well.

Butchering basics: take off the parts you don't want to eat (head, feet, tail, feathers or fur, guts.)
If you want to cut it up, it's easier to cut through joints (places that wiggle) than through solid bones.

(Yes, that is the REALLY basic level description. But it works for pretty much all species.)

I would not eat the geese unless it is an emergency, but if it really was a case of no other food, I certainly would eat them. In a case like that, I would also consider squirrels, rats, wild birds, cats & dogs, raccoons, deer, horses, and so forth. But the geese do sound more attractive than any of those others--convenient size, plus being an animal we are used to thinking of as food.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

I see no problem, but I'm also the weirdo that butchers anything I shoot (apart from pets and the birds lucky enough to make it to 8). I don't believe in the whole trash animal [what animals that eat garbage are considered here, like racoon and coyotes] and still butcher then when I shoot them.

Meat is meat is meat.

 

[Painted Calls]

Oh lord here we go....
Yes animal cruelty is the worst and anyone caught being intentionally cruel to an animal should be strung up and beaten.
However PETA takes things too far as they want everyone to be vegan. Look up some of their campaigns; they are ridiculous and costly and will not change the world.
calm down - like I said animal cruelty is the worst.

PETA is .