Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/10/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The rabbit problem is still very serious. It's only in warmer drier areas where it's still having an effect. It seems that in cooler wetter areas there is another low pathogenicity calicivirus that immunises the rabbits against the pathogenic form. One of my students once called it "calypsovirus" and ever since I've thought of rabbits in grass skirts playing tiny ukuleles to death. Anyway . . . >Can we talk about animals without eating them? No. What else are they good for, and why if they are not for eating are they made of meat? (joke). In Connecticut last month I could have done with a bow-and-arrow or even a throwing knife. The north east of the USA seems to be awash with deer. Better to eat them than to run them over and then leave them to get smelly beside the road. New Zealand possum is fine. I am wearing socks today made from possum fur-wool blend. Marty On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 10:29 PM, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> wrote: > One of the carpenters working on my house used a bow and arrow to kill an > 8-point buck this week. ?He gave us a lot of the meat and I cooked a > venison > shoulder in the crockpot in hard apple cider. ?It was delicious - not at > all > gammy. ?I made the leftovers into barbecue. ?I do have photos of Tom trying > to saw the thing into small enough pieces to fit in the crockpot that I'll > post after I get around to downloading them. > > Tina > > On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 2:57 AM, Marty Deveney <benedenia at gmail.com> > wrote: > >> That's a really great shot Geoff, but you need to work harder on the >> ferals; there's only camel on that plate, the rest is native. >> >> About 20 years ago I ate some of a road killed koala. ?It tasted like >> cough drops. >> >> Marty (who eats most anything that walks, crawls, swims, wriggles or >> filters) >> >> On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > Sustainably harvested and strictly regulated (from populations of >> > millions) of course. It is both delicious and low fat and an inifinitely >> > less environmentally damaging animal on the landscape than sheep or >> cattle. >> > In this case presented (as was some camel) like proscuitto ?or similar >> along >> > with an Emu P?t?, some goats cheese, roast vegetables, bush tomato chili >> > relish, ciabatta and a fine local ale. A very fine antipasto platter in >> fact >> > that my Euro friends would be bound to appreciate. >> > >> > Cheers >> > Geoff >> > http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman >> > >> > >> > On 6 October 2010 16:44, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote: >> > >> >> I KNEW you would eat the poor Kangaroo! >> >> >> >> :-) >> >> >> >> Nathan Wajsman >> >> Alicante, Spain >> >> http://www.frozenlight.eu >> >> http://www.greatpix.eu >> >> http://www.nathanfoto.com >> >> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws >> >> Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog >> >> >> >> YNWA >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Oct 5, 2010, at 11:37 PM, Geoff Hopkinson wrote: >> >> >> >> > The Flinders' Ranges ranges are home to kangaroo, emu (we saw many, >> many) >> >> > but also a number of feral species which the National Parks Service >> are >> >> > working to remove from the park, such as goats, camels and foxes to >> allow >> >> > the native species to return in better numbers. We encountered a >> number >> >> of >> >> > species together when visiting Parachilna which has an official >> (human) >> >> > population of 7 but rather more visitors. >> >> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/hoppyman/1/FR21.jpg.html >> >> > >> >> > Cheers >> >> > Geoff >> >> > http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman >> >> > >> >> ?> _______________________________________________ >> >> > Leica Users Group. >> >> > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> > >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Leica Users Group. >> >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Leica Users Group. >> > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> > > > -- > Tina Manley, ASMP > www.tinamanley.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information