Rattle Snake

...if you asked me if i wanted to eat ball python or bearded dragon (and they do eat them in their native lands)....i would have to decline....i am pretty much open to any 'new' type of food....but like shelby, eating something that you have kept as a pet is completely different...the reason is that most people have emotional attachments to the animals that they have kept as pets.

Rattlesnakes are considered 'pests' in some areas and are even killed for the heck of it. So why not eat it? Atleast that way it would be dying for a reason. Unless the animals is directly threatening your life or you are using the meat as food, it should not be killed. That is how things work in nature....you don't see animals killing other animals just for the fun of it.

And of course people should not harm endangered animals :) NEVER!

i agree i would never eat a species that i kept as a pet like ball pythons, snapping turtles (although i didnt really like them) Black rat snake, brazillian rainbow boa.... its just to hard to do

Well, I would eat a species I keep.. lol that sounds horrible. It doesn't bother me like eating dog would. :bleh:

I have kept pet crayfish, but I still enjoy eating the suckers! Same with catfish.. my pet catfish is my little buddy (er not so little anymore..) but boy do those guys taste good too! ;)

Yes I have. As a matter of fact the below picture of a diamond back was eaten by the two fellers holding it, one of which is me. I have come from a long line of folks who only eat what they kill, and as a "po" southern boy we ate all kinds of critters, kinda like the beverly hillbillys. lol
And I have also ate dog but when I was in Korea and I did not know what I was eating until I ate it, then they told me. Needles to say I didnt keep fido down for long.

https://ball-pythons.net/gallery/fil...iamondback.JPG

Hrm.. out of curiosity, how did 'Fido' taste?

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Originally Posted by daniel1983

...if you asked me if i wanted to eat ball python or bearded dragon (and they do eat them in their native lands)....i would have to decline....i am pretty much open to any 'new' type of food....but like shelby, eating something that you have kept as a pet is completely different...the reason is that most people have emotional attachments to the animals that they have kept as pets.

Rattlesnakes are considered 'pests' in some areas and are even killed for the heck of it. So why not eat it? Atleast that way it would be dying for a reason. Unless the animals is directly threatening your life or you are using the meat as food, it should not be killed. That is how things work in nature....you don't see animals killing other animals just for the fun of it.

And of course people should not harm endangered animals :) NEVER!

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I think I agree with most of what you say Daniel. I eat beef and pork and poultry cause most of them are bred for food, but I guess if I kept a cow as a pet I would give up eating steaks. I don't know, I just confuse myself royally when it comes to such issues:rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by Shelby

Hrm.. out of curiosity, how did 'Fido' taste?

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Like chicken :P :D

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Originally Posted by daniel1983

...that most people have emotional attachments to the animals that they have kept as pets.

That is how things work in nature....you don't see animals killing other animals just for the fun of it.

And of course people should not harm endangered animals :) NEVER!

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Ummmmmmm Yeah, it's tough to eat your best friend, but after selling my first pet pig at the Co. fair, I found it rather easy to eat 'em. Would I eat snake or possum???? NOPE. Do you know what POSSUMS eat???!??? Other possums! BLECK! :puke: They're always street pizzas here in the valley.

As for Daniel's comment about animals killing animals....Hmmmmmmm....Not necessarily "for the fun of it", but hyenas and lions will kill each other, not for food like most other animals, but because there is an instinctive hatred between the two species. Many documented cases where one would deliberately attack/kill the other w/o provocation. And they're not common, but occas. there will be a predator that kills for sport, instead of for food.

Personally, coming from a family that hunted responsibly I grew up on "wild" food and enjoyed it completely. My grandfather, bless his soul, taught us all that hunting is about respecting nature and her bounty and you eat what you kill....a waste not, want not gentleman. I also have a european sister-in-law who grew up eating horse meat. That upsets a lot of folks over here, but where she came from they are both an animal for sport and pets and also an animal used as a food source.

As a meating eating person, I don't condemn anyone's food choices as long as the harvesting of said animal is done in ways that do not waste the animal and do not affect it's numbers in it's wild state (if it's taken that way). I do condemn things like killing a black bear for it's gallbladder or an elephant for it's ivory but that is a whole other topic really. That sort of waste and disregard for nature sickens me!

Years ago I took a Native Studies course and participated in the time honored trapping, skinning and eating of beaver. I've never met a group of people that honored an animal in the ways the Oji-Cree peoples of northern Ontario do and their natural knowledge of animal management is astounding. They had it all figured out centuries before the Dept of Natural Resources was formed LOL. Oh and sweet and sour beaver isn't all that bad....I'd still rather have a Big Mac though LOL.


~~Jo~~

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Hrm.. out of curiosity, how did 'Fido' taste?

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A little stringy....but not bad until I found out what it was. All I can say is I would never have known if they had not told me. It was cooked with so much vegetables and rice that I just thought it tasted the way it did because it was a korean dish.... Kay-gogi. (sp) Gogi means meat...if I only knew at the time what Kay meant.....