[Sca-cooks] On eating Birds of Prey OT/OOP

[Daniel Myers]

On Friday, February 28, 2003, at 12:14 PM, Susan wrote:

> I refused to have anything to do with it - on several grounds, not the
> least
> of which was a distinct suspicion that even possessing the thing is
> illegal (I
> was in the military at the time) and just downright unpatriotic to eat
> it!
> Spouse persevered however and sliced and sauteed the breastmeat in
> butter. My
> contribution was to suggest that might not be the best way to cook it.

The suspicion was correct.

 From the National Eagle Repository web site [
http://mountain-prairie.fws.gov/law/eagle/ ]

"... In an effort to protect these birds, the United States Congress
passed the Bald Eagle Protection Act in 1940, and later amended the Act
in 1962 to include protection for golden eagles.   This Act prohibits
take, transport, sale, barter, trade, import and export, and possession
of eagles, making it illegal for anyone to collect eagles and eagle
parts without a permit."

Members of native american tribes may obtain an eagle from the National
Eagle Repository for religious or cultural purposes.  The rest of us
are forbidden to own even the smallest bit of an one of these eagles.

- Doc


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