Reminds me of the Australian Minister (I'm not sure which department) who referred to koalas as nasty little animals that pee on you (or some such- it was outrageous). One has to be careful eating or commenting on national symbols! Besides, they stink of what they eat, possibly making them a reasonable substitute for Menthylptus drops were one to be caught alone in the wilderness, their habitat anyway, with a cold and no coughdrops. (Hold one under your nose....)
The bald eagle is a carrion eater in part, making it helpful in a biological sense (think vultures and bustards), yet, most people would like to think it subsists on salmon. I doubt they are tasty, bald eagles. Probably taste of what they eat. They can be harvested by people belonging to registered Amerindian tribes, for religious purposes, but only with Federal permits. No mention of what happens to the meat. The bones can be fashioned into whistles. Not to attract more eagles....
The same people eat dog, unseasoned, ceremonially, or at least the Lakota do. These are rangy, lean dogs that aren't pets so much as camp followers. Koreans skip the ceremony and dig in when they eat dog.
I guess I would have to equate kangeroo with bison, then. I presume the big hoppers are the one you can harvest to eat, not the wallaby-types, the little, endangered,
cute ones.... Buffalo is lean, too. So is horse, so the French prepare it by inserting goose fat into the flesh. A huge amount of the horse flesh eaten in Europe comes from American wild horses that have out-bred the carrying capacity of their habitat. The alternative is to shoot them and leave the dead animals on the ground for carrion eaters.
Carrion eaters are gentle, shy birds (turkey vultures). Once, as part of an experiment to establish whether they used visual clues or smell to determine is something was dead, I played dead on the ground (in a cemetary- that's where many good birds are) to try to attract in a pod of turkey vultures gliding over my position. Smell wins: they were not interested in me. At the time, I was lean meat. You would be surprised how many ornithologists and birders (twitchers) have tried this experiment. In ornithological circles, it is spoken of, and no one laughs. Much. I've done other bizarre things to approach birds in their realm, but that's the worst case.
Rabbit is lean meat. I presume you'd prefer dingos eat the little bastards, though, and leave the lambkins alone. (Note: these are imported pests, not the cute ones you have as pets!!)
The first name for the University of Nebraska Cornhusker football team was the Bugeaters. Probably locust and grasshoppers as there were infestations of them in the early years of settlement.
I'm trying to get through with this thought, but it has captured my fancy. Help!
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