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mindmetoo
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 Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 2:26 am Post subject: Eagle is back on the menu, boys! |
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070628/sc_nm/eagle_endangered_dc_1
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| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The American bald eagle, pushed to near-extinction in the United States by the pesticide DDT, is now recovered and will be removed from the Endangered Species list, the U.S. interior secretary said on Thursday. |
All I can think is I'd love some bald eagle, extra crispy. |
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dogshed
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| Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 2:28 am Post subject: |
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hellofaniceguy
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| Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 3:41 am Post subject: Re: Eagle is back on the menu, boys! |
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| mindmetoo wrote: |
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070628/sc_nm/eagle_endangered_dc_1
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| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The American bald eagle, pushed to near-extinction in the United States by the pesticide DDT, is now recovered and will be removed from the Endangered Species list, the U.S. interior secretary said on Thursday. |
All I can think is I'd love some bald eagle, extra crispy. |
But I'm sure that if someone kills one and gets caught....they are going to jail! |
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Tony_Balony
Joined: 12 Apr 2007
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| Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 4:50 am Post subject: |
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| I'll bet it tastes like chicken. |
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Alyallen
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| Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 5:13 am Post subject: |
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| Tony_Balony wrote: |
| I'll bet it tastes like chicken. |
Or squirrel  |
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swetepete
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| Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 5:25 am Post subject: |
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Aw, no! Of all the rotten luck! I just invested the kid's college fund in black-market eagle cloackas and tiger-wieners.
"Sorry kiddo, it's the Scientific Experiments for ya...don't worry, you're still going to medical school. In a sense." |
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Julius
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Roch
Joined: 24 Apr 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 5:48 am Post subject: Re: Eagle is back on the menu, boys! |
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| hellofaniceguy wrote: |
| mindmetoo wrote: |
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070628/sc_nm/eagle_endangered_dc_1
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| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The American bald eagle, pushed to near-extinction in the United States by the pesticide DDT, is now recovered and will be removed from the Endangered Species list, the U.S. interior secretary said on Thursday. |
All I can think is I'd love some bald eagle, extra crispy. |
But I'm sure that if someone kills one and gets caught....they are going to jail! |
Koreans get arrested more than once-in-awhile in the U.S. for poaching, inter alia, the Bald Eagle. |
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yingwenlaoshi
Joined: 12 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 6:02 am Post subject: |
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Yeah, but what eagles eat is disgusting. Imagine shooting one and then cleaning it only to find a half eaten mouse or something in it? Pretty gross.
Chickens don't eat that crap although the slop pigs eat... Still... |
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Julius
Joined: 27 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 6:16 am Post subject: |
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Yeah, but what eagles eat is disgusting. Imagine shooting one and then cleaning it only to find a half eaten mouse or something in it? Pretty gross.
Chickens don't eat that crap although the slop pigs eat... Still... |
Eagles and other birds of prey are not edible..its risky to eat one. they're not gamebirds like turkeys or pheasants.
However Asians have been known to eat all sorts of ridiculous "unclean" things and kill rare animals for their body parts (bears paws, tiger bones) etc- which is why there are no more bears, tigers, leopards or anything else much in Korea. Of course once you cleared your own country of fauna, its time to move onto someone elses country  |
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daskalos
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| Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 10:56 pm Post subject: |
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The Cretan kri-kri is an indigenous, very threatened species of goat with very oddly long, curving horns. Its habitat is now confined to a very few places. Estimates of the total population range from one to two thousand.
As a passenger in a car of native Greeks on a road trip a couple of Epiphanies ago, I did my best to follow the conversation about the kri-kri. How beautiful and noble, the few places it could still be found, the very real possibility that the only way it will find its way off the endangered list is by moving to the extinct list. Krima. Pity.
Into the somber silence that followed, one of my companions then said, �I best they taste good, though.� A comment followed by almost lustful agreement and speculations as to just how tasty kri-kri meat would be and why. Maybe they should try to catch one and roast it on a spit before the opportunity is lost forever. (They decided against it, albeit regretfully.)
God I love Greeks. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 5:41 am Post subject: |
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| Julius wrote: |
| Eagles and other birds of prey are not edible..its risky to eat one. they're not gamebirds like turkeys or pheasants. |
That's an interesting point. When you think of it, we don't really eat many predators. Of course as noted in Guns, Germs, and Steel, predators made poor subjects of domestication. Non predators are lower hanging fruit. |
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yingwenlaoshi
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| Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 6:05 am Post subject: |
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| The butter face K-gal is not on the endangered list yet, as we can see. |
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