Sometimes these things are subconscious and can't be helped, except by professionals. I had a friend that couldn't eat chicken or in fact any fowl. He called around one day as we were getting some tea on and he stayed to eat. We were having turkey sausages. I could either have told him and he wouldn't have eaten, or not and he would eat them. I chose the second option. Two days later, when the sausages had well and truly been and gone through him, I thought I'd tell him and he would realise that it was all in his mind and he'd be cured. I did tell him and he was then promptly violently sick! Oh well.
Can't stomach meat I've shot
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I would say exactly the opposite to this ^^^
All the meat consumed in this household is killed by myself (all the standard stuff like pork, lamb / mutton, beef and poultry, plus rabbits and game. No venison as yet) apart from occasional odds and ends like pheasants my son brings home after beating, or the odd one that's knocked down on the road. Never had a problem with it, but I do find it helps psychologically with the larger animals to get something like the liver into the frying pan while it's still warm from the animal. (Liver is so much nicer cooked as soon as this, anyway). Having been doing it this way for years, I now find that my tastebuds are going like crazy as soon as I've pulled the trigger. I suppose it's a pavlovian reaction (or whatever it's called), the body subconsciously associating the killing of the animal with an almost immediate pleasurable foody experience. Or it might be a sort of primitive mark of respect that I've adopted without even realising.
Leaving it for longer means it's just a bit of dead stuff, no longer special.
AN DU RU FOX
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correct vss there all used to monosodioradioactiv crap in a carton,washed down with 2ltrs of something fizzy,
bobjs
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i have to say i was the same with Venison, a lot of it was down to the tree hugger i live with, i used to shoot it gralloch it etc and then give it away,
I have not eaten a rabbit, pigeon or hare for many years.
fish...........no bother i'd even cook it on the river bank,
bob.
I have not eaten a rabbit, pigeon or hare for many years.
fish...........no bother i'd even cook it on the river bank,
bob.
AN DU RU FOX
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i think i will eat anything that i could at one point or other recognise,if its in a pkt fget it
bewsher500
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can you stomach bought venison or is just the stuff you have shot?
I tend to muse a little over the cattle & sheep / chickens, that I pass in trucks on our motorways, they are most often on their last journey, to an ignominious end in a slaughterhouse, I still eat roast chicken on a Sunday etc, but I do prefer something that I have procured personally, it is always treated with respect & nothing is wasted if it is in any way edible, so I often think about the difference in these two differing lives & the ends that these animals have, so my take on it is in reverse.
Rake Aboot
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Or Roe, they are a pest as well mate. Think you`re a bit off the mark telling him he has no business shooting it.
I shoot enough to do me and a few others, because numbers have to be met, cause Roe are a PEST.
Chrislumox
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i have a friend who does this, he's the same as the OP when it comes to eating it. So he puts it to a local butcher picks it up the next day and treats it as you would a shop bought item, he feels this disassociates his connection with the animal.
ATB chris
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