you still cant tell what you killed ate. perhaps he just ate some grass where the last batch of ddt was thrown out and you killed it right before it was supposed to die.
I am not saying you are wrong and I am right. just saying we cant really tell for sure what whichever you killed or got butchered really ate. or which bug was feeding on it or if it carries some disease that just doesnt show yet.
semp
Well truthfully, an animal in the wild doesn't generally live long at all if it's carrying disease. You'd probably have a real rough time going out and finding a sick animal, let alone accidentally shooting one.
It's quite different in captivity. We pump our animals full of all sorts of stuff to keep them on their feet. We have to, because we crowd them into unhealthily-crowded groups, let them (er, force them to) wade through ankle-deep filth, and often feed them less-than-great feed.
They don't necessarily need to be "healthy" to make it onto your dinner table; just "healthy enough". How much meat does your average USDA inspector reject?
One of my first post-college jobs was working a feed mill in the middle of farmland Wisconsin. I drove a shovel-veyor out to the farms, picked up dried corn (about 6 tons per truckload), and drove it back to the mill where I ground it and mixed it into feed. I often drove the finished feed back to the farms as well. Talk about disgusting... Moldy corn, moldy oats, rats in the corn (which also went into the grinder occasionally), you name it.
While I KNOW what the farm animals were eating, I can't say I'm really comforted by that. I saw dead calves tossed over to the door of the barn, where they lay for weeks in the sweltering summer heat, just feet from where the "healthy" cows were fed. I saw fully-grown dead cows pushed just outside the barn door, and I had to literally step around them as I carried bags of feed and mineral mix into the barns. I got to witness the relatively fresh dead animal first bloat, then pop/deflate, and liquify over the several weeks it took them to decay in the sun, and again, this was just a few feet from the healthy animals. Of course, there are services to pick those animals up, (or the farmer can handle it himself) but trust me, they're not always taken care of right away... The flies are crawling over the carcass, and then flying over to walk on the animal feed or the other animals themselves, or on me...
I've also spent some time in the feed lots...
The meat industry is just that, an industry. They're producing meat like a factory.
Of course, there are many farmers/ranchers who do very well at running healthy operations... But there are others who just barely get by (legally as well as financially).
I'll take my chances with the wild game over the supermarket offerings any day, although I do a fair amount of grocery store foraging as well...
The wild animal might have just eaten something a little nasty, but it wasn't forced to do it repeatedly over a period of months!
