Is it ok to eat meat of a bird you butcher and find out there is a liver problem?

[RumAndCoconuts]

Hi Folks,
I posted the other day about a bird I butchered for eating only to find out that it's liver was grossly enlarged. No one in the disease illness section was able to assist. I'm wondering if any of you good people have come across this before?

Here is the link to more info in my original posting.

Question is is it ok to eat him? or should i feed it to the sharks? (you think I'm kidding don't you? )

 

[WooingWyandotte]

Wow that is one impressive liver. If that was my bird it'd definitely go to the sharks.

Just because the liver is in charge of filtering toxic substances out of the blood stream should be reason enough not eat the bird if it obviously had a problem in that department, you know? Especially since the blood ran through muscles which you would be consuming...bird could be infected all through. I guess I just lean toward better safe than sorry. Sadly I don't have any scientific insight to offer (hmm...maybe I know what I'll do for college eh?).

 

[havery]

I agree with Wooing, I would be very hesitant to eat anything that had liver problems simply because of the nature of the liver and its importance in filtering out toxins. And holy cow that was a massive liver!! I can't believe that bird was still alive! I know I'm just a puny human, but I've had my liver try to crap out on me before and it is extremely painful, I can't imagine a chicken still running around relatively normally with a liver looking like that.

 

[RedIII]

X3. I would not trust the meat. I butchered a turkey once whose liver smelled abnormal, so the whole carcass was deemed inedible for humans, sadly. Go fishing.