Venison - was Re: SC - Boar Recipe

[LrdRas at aol.com]

In a message dated 9/18/99 8:24:52 AM Eastern Daylight Time, troy at asan.com 
writes:

<< colonists may have come to North America, seen most of it
 crawling with deer,  >>

Deer populations of the East coast were, SFAIK, considerably less (up to 10 
times less) when the colonists arrived than they are now. The increase is due 
to agriculture which provides a larger base for food scavenging. Think acres 
and acres of corn. :-) Other populations of wild game were significantly 
larger such as bear, pigeons and most subspecies of Dinosauria, such as Ave 
(birds). 

There would have been a rare deer now and again buts lots of geese, pigeons, 
small birds, turkey, etc., as well as bear. Also fresh and salt water fish 
was abundant.

Ras
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