Hope you like rats...

[Shawnee_b]

Rats called "track rabbit" in the NYC tunnels
Raccoon? Best I ever ate, but get a young one in your garden not the dump.
Woodchuck/ groudhog? Awesome, Eat grass and your garden, clean critters

 

[Shawnee_b]

Pretty soon we'll be laden with wild turkeys, ducks, and geese. Possum and coon as well - I don't typically eat these but if push came to shove there's plenty around. I can sit on my back deck and pick off all kinds of critters

Try them.

Wild turkey? I have done them in an outdoor cooker, oil. OK

Best is cut the breast out, slice 1/4 thick, dip in egg/milk/ital bread crumbs and fry in oil, So good gotta lay down to eat it.

 

[Likkmee]

We eat small portions of meat maybe twice a week at my house. Usually in the form of a meat ravioli or ingredient in soup or stew. Meat eaters are not excited about our soups and stews. Very small amounts of meat.

Honestly that's likely the healthiest course if current nutritional health science is accurate.

 

[Missourian]

We eat small portions of meat maybe twice a week at my house. Usually in the form of a meat ravioli or ingredient in soup or stew. Meat eaters are not excited about our soups and stews. Very small amounts of meat.

Honestly that's likely the healthiest course if current nutritional health science is accurate.

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That looks good.

 

[Pogo]

...or beans, cuz a meat shortage may be coming to a metropolis near you.

America could be 'perilously close' to meat shortages as slaughterhouses shut down and hundreds of workers test positive for COVID-19

A Smithfield Food plant that supplies up to 5% of the pork in the US closed indefinitely after 293 workers were diagnosed with COVID-19.

www.businessinsider.com

Lucky for us in those pesky red rural flyover states you love to demean and look down on...we still hunt and retain a working knowledge of how to process our own meat, so a processing plant shut down only means the inconvenience of a trip to the source...it's only a few miles away....and loading up the pickup. Ever scalded a hog? Didn't think so.

Sorry urban elites. You can just splash some A1 on your liberal arts degree .

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Ok...that was fun...but in all seriousness...you can easily live without meat. Beans are great and dried they last a long time...so don't panic. Things will be back to normal soon.

Plus, rat might not be that bad...

"Meat"?
Gave that up in the '70s.

 

[Andylusion]

...or beans, cuz a meat shortage may be coming to a metropolis near you.

America could be 'perilously close' to meat shortages as slaughterhouses shut down and hundreds of workers test positive for COVID-19

A Smithfield Food plant that supplies up to 5% of the pork in the US closed indefinitely after 293 workers were diagnosed with COVID-19.

www.businessinsider.com

Lucky for us in those pesky red rural flyover states you love to demean and look down on...we still hunt and retain a working knowledge of how to process our own meat, so a processing plant shut down only means the inconvenience of a trip to the source...it's only a few miles away....and loading up the pickup. Ever scalded a hog? Didn't think so.

Sorry urban elites. You can just splash some A1 on your liberal arts degree .

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Ok...that was fun...but in all seriousness...you can easily live without meat. Beans are great and dried they last a long time...so don't panic. Things will be back to normal soon.

Plus, rat might not be that bad...

I would think with thousands testing positive for Corona, and living.... that this would lessen the panic, not increase it.

 

[22lcidw]

Wouldn't something like this be part of a nation and a world shutting down? A progressive drip,,,,drip style demise to anarchy and chaos.

 

[JLW]

Don’t worry Trumpers tell us the virus is like a bad cold.

 

[Likkmee]

Don’t worry Trumpers tell us the virus is like a bad cold.

I suppose the entire planet are Trumpsters"
Diarrhoeal disease

 

[Christ_on_a_croissant]

...or beans, cuz a meat shortage may be coming to a metropolis near you.

America could be 'perilously close' to meat shortages as slaughterhouses shut down and hundreds of workers test positive for COVID-19

A Smithfield Food plant that supplies up to 5% of the pork in the US closed indefinitely after 293 workers were diagnosed with COVID-19.

www.businessinsider.com

Lucky for us in those pesky red rural flyover states you love to demean and look down on...we still hunt and retain a working knowledge of how to process our own meat, so a processing plant shut down only means the inconvenience of a trip to the source...it's only a few miles away....and loading up the pickup. Ever scalded a hog? Didn't think so.

Sorry urban elites. You can just splash some A1 on your liberal arts degree .

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Ok...that was fun...but in all seriousness...you can easily live without meat. Beans are great and dried they last a long time...so don't panic. Things will be back to normal soon.

Plus, rat might not be that bad...

Like all of the trailer park dwellers and morbidly obese Walmart shoppers in Trumpland are going to suddenly become skilled hunters.

What a dumb ass thread.

 

[Likkmee]

Infections
COVID-19: Approximately 1,860,011 cases worldwide; 557,590 cases in the U.S. as of Apr. 13, 2020.*

Flu: Estimated 1 billion cases worldwide; 9.3 million to 45 million cases in the U.S. per year.

Deaths
COVID-19: Approximately 114,983 deaths reported worldwide; 22,109 deaths in the U.S., as of Apr. 13, 2020.*

Flu: 291,000 to 646,000 deaths worldwide; 12,000 to 61,000 deaths in the U.S. per year
Linkage

Coronavirus Disease 2019 vs. the Flu

 

[Muhammed]

...or beans, cuz a meat shortage may be coming to a metropolis near you.

America could be 'perilously close' to meat shortages as slaughterhouses shut down and hundreds of workers test positive for COVID-19

A Smithfield Food plant that supplies up to 5% of the pork in the US closed indefinitely after 293 workers were diagnosed with COVID-19.

www.businessinsider.com

Lucky for us in those pesky red rural flyover states you love to demean and look down on...we still hunt and retain a working knowledge of how to process our own meat, so a processing plant shut down only means the inconvenience of a trip to the source...it's only a few miles away....and loading up the pickup. Ever scalded a hog? Didn't think so.

Sorry urban elites. You can just splash some A1 on your liberal arts degree .

---------
Ok...that was fun...but in all seriousness...you can easily live without meat. Beans are great and dried they last a long time...so don't panic. Things will be back to normal soon.

Plus, rat might not be that bad...

FYI, the Obama Treasury Department approved the sale of Smithfield Foods to China back in 2013. They bought out Smithfield at a whopping 30% premium!



And a year ago the border patrol caught them trying to smuggle a million pounds of pork into New Jersey.

https://www.porkbusiness.com/article/feds-seize-million-pounds-smuggled-chinese-pork

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) stopped an attempt to smuggle one million pounds of pork from China to a New Jersey port on Friday, resulting in the biggest seizure of agricultural product in American history. This comes on the heels of African swine fever (ASF) raging through China and devastating the hog population in the world’s largest pork-producing country.

“This was highly orchestrated,” said Stephen Maloney, the Customs and Border Patrol’s acting port director for the Port of New York/Newark. He said this was a concerted effort to conceal product.
More than 100 CBP agricultural specialists and K-9 teams worked to uncover the prohibited food. The pork was smuggled in various different ways from ramen noodle bowls to Tide detergent containers, said deputy chief agricultural specialist Basil Liakakos.

In some cases, the packaging in the shipment matched the products on the manifest, authorities said, but the contents inside were prohibited pork. In other cases, the pork was simply packaged among the other products.
CBP teams are working hard to keep ASF, a highly transmissible, deadly virus of pigs, out of the U.S. ASF does not affect humans, but is rapidly spread to domestic pigs and wild boars. The ASF virus survives 150-180 days in fresh meat. In frozen meat, reports say the virus can live indefinitely.

Another concerning national security issue is that the USA is highly dependent on China for heparin, an anticoagulent derived from pig intestines.

Congress hits panic button over potential Chinese heparin shortage as swine herds ravaged by disease

FDA rules require heparin be manufactured only from pig intestines, because when "ruminant" animals like cattle are used, there is a chance the raw material could be contaminated with bovine spongiform encephalopathy or oversulfated chondroitin sulfate (OSCS), a cheap filler that saves money but that can be deadly to patients. In 2008, Chinese heparin contaminated with OSCS was tied to the deaths of 80 dialysis patients in the U.S. As recently as last November, European regulators banned a Chinese supplier after finding contamination risks

The committee members pointed out that, since the disease was discovered in Chinese herds last year, the country has lost a reported 150 million hogs to the outbreak. While there is no immediate indication that China's hog herd problems are impacting the U.S. heparin levels, the letter points out that the current supply is already stressed. It has faced periodic shortages, like when a Baxter International plant was taken out of production by Hurricane Maria in 2017.

It was a decade ago that the FDA got whiplashed by Congressional leaders over tainted Chinese heparin in the U.S. supply. The investigation began after heparin batches were tied to hundreds of allergic reactions, some that proved fatal. The blood thinner had been tainted somewhere along the supply chain, which stretched into some mom-and-pop workshops in the Chinese countryside.

What that article doesn't mention is that heparin is also used to coat medical tubing such as catheters and IV lines. It is essential.

 

[CarlinAnnArbor]

...or beans, cuz a meat shortage may be coming to a metropolis near you.

America could be 'perilously close' to meat shortages as slaughterhouses shut down and hundreds of workers test positive for COVID-19

A Smithfield Food plant that supplies up to 5% of the pork in the US closed indefinitely after 293 workers were diagnosed with COVID-19.

www.businessinsider.com

Lucky for us in those pesky red rural flyover states you love to demean and look down on...we still hunt and retain a working knowledge of how to process our own meat, so a processing plant shut down only means the inconvenience of a trip to the source...it's only a few miles away....and loading up the pickup. Ever scalded a hog? Didn't think so.

Sorry urban elites. You can just splash some A1 on your liberal arts degree .

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Ok...that was fun...but in all seriousness...you can easily live without meat. Beans are great and dried they last a long time...so don't panic. Things will be back to normal soon.

Plus, rat might not be that bad...

Expect more disease and strange viruses. I'm eating a lot of lentils. Basically, I'm punished for your bad food choices (rats, bats, ans snakes)

 

[Crepitus]

...or beans, cuz a meat shortage may be coming to a metropolis near you.

America could be 'perilously close' to meat shortages as slaughterhouses shut down and hundreds of workers test positive for COVID-19

A Smithfield Food plant that supplies up to 5% of the pork in the US closed indefinitely after 293 workers were diagnosed with COVID-19.

www.businessinsider.com

Lucky for us in those pesky red rural flyover states you love to demean and look down on...we still hunt and retain a working knowledge of how to process our own meat, so a processing plant shut down only means the inconvenience of a trip to the source...it's only a few miles away....and loading up the pickup. Ever scalded a hog? Didn't think so.

Sorry urban elites. You can just splash some A1 on your liberal arts degree .

---------
Ok...that was fun...but in all seriousness...you can easily live without meat. Beans are great and dried they last a long time...so don't panic. Things will be back to normal soon.

Plus, rat might not be that bad...

Pop is a cattle rancher. Semi retired these days but still runs a couple dozen just so he don't get bored. Add that to the eggs and the truck-garden and we're all set.

 

[Crixus]

...or beans, cuz a meat shortage may be coming to a metropolis near you.

America could be 'perilously close' to meat shortages as slaughterhouses shut down and hundreds of workers test positive for COVID-19

A Smithfield Food plant that supplies up to 5% of the pork in the US closed indefinitely after 293 workers were diagnosed with COVID-19.

www.businessinsider.com

Lucky for us in those pesky red rural flyover states you love to demean and look down on...we still hunt and retain a working knowledge of how to process our own meat, so a processing plant shut down only means the inconvenience of a trip to the source...it's only a few miles away....and loading up the pickup. Ever scalded a hog? Didn't think so.

Sorry urban elites. You can just splash some A1 on your liberal arts degree .

---------
Ok...that was fun...but in all seriousness...you can easily live without meat. Beans are great and dried they last a long time...so don't panic. Things will be back to normal soon.

Plus, rat might not be that bad...

Not for this Wigga. We shop for the month, we hit the fish market we for some done reason we just did that. I notice pasta is pretty sparce to.

 

[JGalt]

Don’t worry Trumpers tell us the virus is like a bad cold.

First "T-word" of the thread.

 

[JOSweetHeart]

Why go for rats when there are meats out there called chicken and fish?

God bless you always!!!

Holly

 

[Denizen]

...or beans, cuz a meat shortage may be coming to a metropolis near you.

America could be 'perilously close' to meat shortages as slaughterhouses shut down and hundreds of workers test positive for COVID-19

A Smithfield Food plant that supplies up to 5% of the pork in the US closed indefinitely after 293 workers were diagnosed with COVID-19.

www.businessinsider.com

Lucky for us in those pesky red rural flyover states you love to demean and look down on...we still hunt and retain a working knowledge of how to process our own meat, so a processing plant shut down only means the inconvenience of a trip to the source...it's only a few miles away....and loading up the pickup. Ever scalded a hog? Didn't think so.

Sorry urban elites. You can just splash some A1 on your liberal arts degree .

---------
Ok...that was fun...but in all seriousness...you can easily live without meat. Beans are great and dried they last a long time...so don't panic. Things will be back to normal soon.

Plus, rat might not be that bad...

The White House is full of rats.

 

[JGalt]

...or beans, cuz a meat shortage may be coming to a metropolis near you.

America could be 'perilously close' to meat shortages as slaughterhouses shut down and hundreds of workers test positive for COVID-19

A Smithfield Food plant that supplies up to 5% of the pork in the US closed indefinitely after 293 workers were diagnosed with COVID-19.

www.businessinsider.com

Lucky for us in those pesky red rural flyover states you love to demean and look down on...we still hunt and retain a working knowledge of how to process our own meat, so a processing plant shut down only means the inconvenience of a trip to the source...it's only a few miles away....and loading up the pickup. Ever scalded a hog? Didn't think so.

Sorry urban elites. You can just splash some A1 on your liberal arts degree .

---------
Ok...that was fun...but in all seriousness...you can easily live without meat. Beans are great and dried they last a long time...so don't panic. Things will be back to normal soon.

Plus, rat might not be that bad...

The White House is full of rats.

Still haven't changed your Nazi avatar, I see.

 

[Christ_on_a_croissant]

...or beans, cuz a meat shortage may be coming to a metropolis near you.

America could be 'perilously close' to meat shortages as slaughterhouses shut down and hundreds of workers test positive for COVID-19

A Smithfield Food plant that supplies up to 5% of the pork in the US closed indefinitely after 293 workers were diagnosed with COVID-19.

www.businessinsider.com

Lucky for us in those pesky red rural flyover states you love to demean and look down on...we still hunt and retain a working knowledge of how to process our own meat, so a processing plant shut down only means the inconvenience of a trip to the source...it's only a few miles away....and loading up the pickup. Ever scalded a hog? Didn't think so.

Sorry urban elites. You can just splash some A1 on your liberal arts degree .

---------
Ok...that was fun...but in all seriousness...you can easily live without meat. Beans are great and dried they last a long time...so don't panic. Things will be back to normal soon.

Plus, rat might not be that bad...

The White House is full of rats.

And they eat their own (no pun intended for Trump’s lusting after his own daughter)