Tess got me thinking !

One of our fellow low carbers and friends in the US, Tess, started a thread today about using all the animal as a food source, and minimising waste. I posted this as a comment together with some info from Wiki.

Hi Tess

Great post. One of the greatest animal waste’s was the American Bison. The Indians used every part of the animal and killed the bison when necessary. At one time there were tens of millions on the plains, nature, man and animals in perfect balance, until the white man turned up with rifles. Often killing just for the skins, the animals were left to rot. From Wiki

“Bison hunting (hunting of the American bison) was an activity fundamental to the economy and society of the Plains Indian peoples who inhabited the vast grasslands on the Interior Plains of North America, prior to the animal's near-extinction in the late nineteenth century. The species' dramatic decline was the result of habitat loss due to the expansion of ranching and farming in western North America, industrial-scale hunting practised by non-indigenous hunters, increased indigenous hunting pressure due to non-indigenous demand for bison hides and meat (for example, the pemmican used by the Hudson's Bay Company to provision its fur brigades), and even cases of deliberate policy by settler governments to destroy the food source of the native Indian peoples.”

The modern human race, the only animal stupid enough to eat food that is poisonous, and destroy and pollute our own environment. The so called “primitives” knew what they were doing. They killed to live, not for money.

After posting the Wiki info I scrolled down and saw this photograph, no wonder the American Bison was hunted to almost extinction. Eddie

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Photo from the 1870s of a pile of American bison skulls