SC - Re: Butchery

[Nick Sasso (fra niccolo)]

> Also, my family hunted, butchrered and prepared our own meat for years
> and
> never felt a need to be familiar with anatomy to eat. We knew what was
> edible
> and ate it. This insisting anatomical knowledge is a prerequesite to
> butchering is also, IMHO, absurd. Basically, you kill it, skin it and
> eat the
> parts that are edible whatevcer they are.

The premise is acceptable, but  the support a little lacking as you went
on.  There is far more to butchering than kill/skin/eat if you want meat
that is palatable and will stay unspoiled long enough to
smoke/salt/preserve (stay away from those adrenal glands!).  The
oversimplification of the skills required does the same disservice as
the 'ivory tower' phenomenon :o)

I agree that their must have been some rudimentary knowledge of dressing
animals from the hunt, else many cultures would not have survived a
generation.  The specialized skills of limited anatomy would possibly
have been for butchers and meat houses, the professional in cities.

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